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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.

Spearing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20220123_stomatopod_strik...

Smashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20220123_stomatopod_strik...

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?



This is amazingly cool, I've been fascinated by mantis shrimps for a long time. I've been watching these on a loop for a while, the "latch" mechanism is really interesting to me, I've never seen something like that in biology before (not that I've got any real experience with biology, but still, how ingenious!)




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