Unlike bony fish, there is no direct control of the pigment cells by the nervous system, and this results in the colour change taking place more slowly than happens in fish.

Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of Anglo-America, Eastern Asia ( including China, Korea, and Japan ), Europe, parts of Australia and New Zealand.

As the bean pods mature, they turn yellow and dry up, and the beans inside change from green to their mature colour.

For example, an image may have areas of colour that do not change over several pixels ; instead of coding " red pixel, red pixel, ..." the data may be encoded as " 279 red pixels ".

If applied to optical wavelengths, this manifests itself as a change in the colour of visible light as the wavelength of the light is increased toward the red part of the light spectrum.

They famously change colour with the seasons.

* The copper can also change colour registers once per scanline, creating the " raster bars " effect seen commonly in Amiga games.

The copper can go further than this and change the background colour often enough to make a blocky graphics display without using any bitmap graphics at all.

When the styles and perianth parts are different colours, the visual effect is of a colour change sweeping along the spike.

** Electrochromic effect: creation of an absorption band at some wavelengths, which gives rise to a change in colour

During the moulting process, several species change colour.

In 1793 he explained the mode in which the eye accommodates itself to vision at different distances as depending on change of the curvature of the crystalline lens ; in 1801 he was the first to describe astigmatism ; and in his Lectures he presented the hypothesis, afterwards developed by Hermann von Helmholtz, that colour perception depends on the presence in the retina of three kinds of nerve fibres.

The gleaming marble surfaces were smooth, curved, fluted, or ornately sculpted to reflect the sun, cast graded shadows and change in colour with the ever-changing light of day.

While the Roman Rite adopts no special designation for this final part of Ordinary Time, some denominations do, and may also change the liturgical colour.

The colour of a dugong can change due to the growth of algae on the skin.

The colour of the light emitted by the lamp changes as its electrical characteristics change with temperature and time.

This causes the locust to change colour, eat much more, and breed much more easily.

In the end, the gods listen to Thisbe's lament, and forever change the colour of the mulberry fruits into the stained colour to honour the forbidden love.

If filters that absorb much light or change the colour of the image are used, it is difficult to compose, view, and focus on an SLR, but the image through a rangefinder viewfinder is unaffected.

Nitroprusside changes from pink to purple in the presence of acetoacetate, the conjugate base of acetoacetic acid, and the colour change is graded by eye.

Normally, the indicator causes the colour of the solution to change depending on the pH.

Tlillan-Tlapallan ' Place of the black and red colour ' is a legendary place or region on the Gulf Coast of Mexico where king Quetzalcoatl went on his flight from Tollan in order to burn himself and change into the Morning Star.

A complete change from the normal practice ( sticking to a single majority colour ) was that every set had its own colour scheme, often in bright neon colours.

His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

The system is also supplemented by real time travel time information to key destinations and incident and congestion information displayed on specially designed full colour VMS on the approaches to the freeway entrance ramps.

The ferries companies were identifiable by their different colour liveries displayed on each vessel's funnel.

In 1987, the Response round in the initial heats was a combination of a race between the contestants using double-odometer bicycles, and a video wall which would display random numbers of coloured blocks ; the contestants were required to press one of four coloured buttons corresponding to the highest number of blocks of any one colour being displayed.

190 species are displayed on the colour plates.

The colour of the image displayed depends upon the material and material density: organic material such as paper, clothes and most explosives are displayed in orange.

* Background, or desktop picture, is the image or colour displayed on a website or computer desktop behind the visible content

The one exception to this rule of general drabness in colouration is the striking " herring boned " colour pattern of green, brown, black and white that is displayed by the " Harlequin Gecko " ( Hoplodactylus rakiurae ).

A light characteristic is a graphic and text description of a navigational light sequence or colour displayed on a nautical chart or in a Light List with the chart symbol for a lighthouse, lightvessel, buoy or sea mark with a light on it.

Optically this distinction can be made by the branch colour, called Waffenfarbe which is displayed by a cord attached to the rank insignia, and the colour of their beret with a specific badge attached to it.

Although subpixel rendering increases the number of reconstruction points on the display this does not always mean that higher resolution, higher spatial frequencies, more lines and spaces, may be displayed on a given arrangement of colour subpixels.

For this reason, to reach the rank of colour sergeant was considered a prestigious attainment, granted normally to those sergeants who had displayed courage on the field of battle.

Unlike some clubs, Maidstone have stayed away from ' logo ' type badges, instead sticking to tradition with the same club badge being displayed for their whole existence, aside from some slight changes in colour over of the years.

In British heraldry, the torse is always of six twists of material with the metal being the first tincture displayed on the dexter side, then alternating with a colour or stain.

* Battle Honours ( displayed on the regimental colour )

* 1997: sell the world first phone with a colour screen, the Siemens S10, with 4 different colours ( red, green, blue and white ), that could be displayed, and the first " outdoor " phone ( the Siemens S10 Active, with enhanced shock, dust and splash protection ).

* Words forbidden in the displayed product name: light, ultra-light, légere, or any indication that may indicate that this is a minor drug with low impact ... ( These branding words have been replaced by various colour names )

When the Emperor is riding inside, the Imperial Standard, known as the Imperial Seal of Japan is displayed at both the front and rear of the car in place of a license plate, and on the exterior of both rear passenger doors, displaying a 16 petal chrysanthemum, in golden colour, in reference to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan.

In addition to the displayed honours, the regimental colour will also display four emblems from the antecedents regiments:

In addition to the displayed honours, the regimental colour will also display four emblems from the antecedents regiments:

Muji products have a limited colour range and are displayed on shelves with minimal packaging, displaying only functional product information and a price tag.

The Steinmetz Pink was displayed as part of the Smithsonian's " The Splendor of Diamonds " exhibit, alongside the De Beers Millennium Star, the world ’ s second largest ( the Centenary Diamond is the largest ) top colour ( D ) internally and externally flawless pear-shaped diamond at 203. 04 carat ( 40. 608 g ), the Heart of Eternity Diamond, a 27. 64 carat ( 5. 582 g ) heart-cut blue diamond and the Moussaieff Red Diamond, the world's largest known Fancy Red diamond at 5. 11 carats ( 1. 102 g ).