Worlds

The same animal, somewhere else. Drag to look, space to pause, H to hide the type.

The long way home — a small traveller on ancient stone, under Westerlund 2.

The velvet loop — a living graph wandering a luminous, fractal-lined torus. Follow the mushrooms around the bend.

After rain — the film, rendered in Blender Cycles, and the version you can walk around in: a moss cushion and a pool the width of a finger. Five species walk the water film: Hypsibius, Echiniscus, Ramazzottius, Paramacrobiotus and Richtersius, each with its outline measured from a drawing of its genus, all on the one measured gait. Click to follow another.

The animal is the articulated body from the movement study, unchanged. The scenes are authored, not reconstructions. Space photograph: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI) and the Westerlund 2 Science Team, CC BY 4.0. Rock textures: Amal Kumar / Poly Haven, CC0. Rendered with three.js (MIT).