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A tardigrade, one block per voxel
We built Hypsibius exemplaris from an X-ray nano-CT, one block for every 270 nm: 608 blocks long, 3.7 million times life size. Glass is the cuticle; the gut is yellow, storage cells orange, salivary glands pink, brain light blue, nerve cord blue, ovary green, claw glands lime. The person by its head is 2 blocks tall.
Data: Gross et al. 2019, Zoological Letters 5:14, doi:10.1186/s40851-019-0130-6, CC BY 4.0. Organ names matched to their published volumes by us; brain and salivary glands from their head scan, registered by us. Block textures are our own.