Eli ([personal profile] eub) wrote2011-08-14 10:57 pm

Haeckel to the nth power

Images created from Haeckel's illustrations by using them to orbit-trap a fractal mapping. (Follow through to subblue's Fractal Explorer and thence to its PDF documentation for what that means.)

The top one in particular fooled me at first look. It looks natural enough that I thought it was the original. The original is linked through the creature's binomial, and in comparison it looks crude, human-drawn. The new image is what Haeckel could have drawn if Haeckel's hands were half-height Haeckels.