Saturday, 22 October 2011

Lifting the cloak on Cloakfish

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There is an odd difference between drawings and photographs of animals. In a photograph a galloping animal may be caught in time in just suc...
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Saturday, 8 October 2011

From kudu to bogorbes

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There is too much going on at present for me to write any blog entries on arcane biomechanical biomechanics on other planets. For once, I wi...
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Saturday, 1 October 2011

"Maybe if you stick on another leg at the end of the tail?"

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Designing a novel way of walking for extraterrestrial animals is complicated. I tried my hand at designing gaits for large hexapodal creatur...
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Sunday, 11 September 2011

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a... flying squid!?

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A year ago images of flying squid were in the news, including two short papers in Scientific American ( here and here ). Somehow I missed t...
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Friday, 26 August 2011

Between the Morae River and the Red Valley

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I discussed Brynn Metheny's 'Morae River' project once before in this blog . The project dealt with life forms in a certain geo...
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Saturday, 20 August 2011

It's a Fish! (yes, again...; this one's in 3D, though)

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Click to enlarge; copyright Gert van Dijk This is just an extra post. Regular readers may remember that I tried my hand at ZBrush in t...
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Saturday, 13 August 2011

Create your own planet (using Celestia)

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The theme of this first tutorial is how to produce image of a fictional planet of your own making. Personally I use two programs to do so: C...
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