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Science 14 April 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5771, p. 171
DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5771.171c
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Figure 1
The habitat dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, created during the diorama heyday of the 1920s through the 1950s, star in a new book, Windows on Nature. "This was an early form of virtual reality to recreate nature within walls," said author Stephen Quinn, the museum's diorama guru, at a reception last week. At right is Gunflint Lake, Minnesota, looking toward the Northern Lights at 3 a.m. on 7 December 1941--Pearl Harbor Day--as shown in the placement of Polaris and the Big Dipper. The taxidermist studied animal locomotion extensively before posing the wolves. An imaginary moon shines over the scene, picking out the tracks of the wolves and of their fleeing prey, a white-tailed deer. The diorama's lights are too diffuse to cast shadows, so the foreground artist added his own by sprinkling pigment in the mica-and-marble-dust snow.

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