Wonderful illustrations!<p>Whenever I see someone that is interested in a very specific niche and obviously expends a lot of effort towards it, I'm always in awe. How did they become interested in the topic? Why choose this specific thing? How do they keep their motivation to continue with it?<p>I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm missing something in life. I would love to be passionate about something as much as Junnn11 is about Arthropods.
The animated illustrations of the "arthropod" biomechanics is fascinating. It sheds some light on why arthropods would be interesting enough to draw in their own community of enthusiasts.<p>Spearing: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20220123_stomatopod_strike_mechanics_spearing_en.gif" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20220123_stomatopod_strik...</a><p>Smashing: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20220123_stomatopod_strike_mechanics_smashing_en.gif" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20220123_stomatopod_strik...</a><p>In case they manage to find this thread: @Junnn1, do these biomechanic animations incorporate the dynamics, or maybe just the kinematics of the physical forms? Is there anywhere (i.e. blog) where you discuss the techniques you use to develop your animations?
I recently needed a 3d model of a crab and found that some similarly obsessive user over at Sketchfab had created dozens (possibly hundreds?) of extremely detailed crab models -- at 500k - 1.5 million tris, so basically unusable for most typical animation needs, but they're beautifully detailed and free for download.<p>My first thought was that it might be the same person, since they had a Japanese username! But I don't think it actually is; the Sketchfab person has all kinds of natural models. Here's the account in case anyone is interested: <a href="https://sketchfab.com/ffishAsia-and-floraZia/models" rel="nofollow">https://sketchfab.com/ffishAsia-and-floraZia/models</a>
These pictures strongly remind me of "Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature) 1899-1904"<p><a href="https://www.zum.de/stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.zum.de/stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html</a><p>(unfortunately only the low resolution images (Bildschirmauflösung) are still available on the page)
This is definitely way beyond a typical Wikipedia user page with all these medal "trophies" and it really looks great.<p>In my grade school times, we had this really dedicated biology teacher who believed that being able to properly copy illustrations from books is the key element to understand lesson's subject. So we draw all these organisms, bacteria and viruses with pencils and colored em with either gray shades or pencil crayons and described parts.
Whenever you see organic forms, it's interesting to realize the extent to which they are all "programmed" by their genetics into their structure. In their segments, you see the "for" loops of form. In the same manner this art compresses the forms into their essential mechanical geometries, so too does genetic code create essential abstractions that allow the laws of mathematics to guide their structural harmony.
What a coincidence!<p>Only yesterday I was reading the WP page on Camel Spiders, saw the chewing animation, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Junnn11#/media/File:20220606_Solifugae_chelicerae_movement.gif" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Junnn11#/media/File:20220...</a>, and thought it was quite cool!
This is awesome! A long time ago I used to browse Deviantart looking for similar stuff. Here's a nice example:<p><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/albertonykus/art/The-Cartoon-Guide-to-Vertebrate-Evolution-551603446" rel="nofollow">https://www.deviantart.com/albertonykus/art/The-Cartoon-Guid...</a>
This certainly led me on a Wikipedia rabbithole into extinct arthopods. My favorite used to be Anomalocaris (anomalous shrimp), until I discovered <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovatiocaris" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovatiocaris</a>, the "Innovation Crab"
They are interested in the arthropod head problem <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod_head_problem" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod_head_problem</a><p>it is a long-standing zoological dispute concerning the segmental composition of the heads of the various arthropod groups
Reminds of the user Seedfeeder: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedfeeder" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedfeeder</a>
The image tags on that page need `loading="lazy"`. This made me curious what contributing to the wikipedia application (not articles) is like. Anyone have any insight/info on this?
does anyone have any idea whether this person created drawings for some study book, or otherwise? is this purely for Wikipedia, sounds amazing and very Japanese either way...