When I was finishing my master’s thesis, I created a video to summarize my findings and posted it online. I wanted to share the wonderful things I saw under the microscope—cells dividing, tissues folding, embryos spinning, larvae metamorphosing, juveniles crawling between sand grains. But I also wanted to convey the thrill I felt, seeing these […]
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Note: The denoising I describe in this post was done for artistic reasons and not for scientific purposes. For the proper methodology on image denoising, please follow the CARE paper. I wanted to denoise a twenty-year-old photomicrograph. It’s one of the first scientific images I created back in 2003. It’s so ancient that I used […]
The latest True Facts about Sea Stars is unmissable. The video is filled with delightful echinoderm biology and even covers some recent discoveries on these enigmatic creatures. Watch it!
The Pluteus Trip is a music compilation that I created inspired by the life of these nifty echinoderm larvae named pluteus. It was released more than ten years ago on my (now defunct) music blog, ccNeLaS. The album is freely available at: https://archive.org/details/ThePluteusTrip Download it, read the description below, and enjoy the trip! Plutei are […]
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Embryonic cell division
At some point in our lives, we have all been through that (=embryonic cleavage).
The sea biscuit metamorphosis image that I submitted for the Node’s intersection image competition was selected for the November calendar! You can download it here.
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Pluteus larva
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Metamorphosis of a sea biscuit
Metamorphosis is a dramatic life-changing event for many invertebrates. It’s the intersection between two distinct lives – larval and adult. It is how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. The process is fascinating, specially when you have the chance to see it happening with your own eyes. You too can see it in the video A […]
Aamzing animation showing the development of a starfish, from the first cell divisions to adulthood: The animation was made with Blender. And there’s a cool poster with a cladogram in the sand, illustrating the phylogeny of echinoderms. Check the original post. P.S. For comparison, once I tried to create cell divisions in Blender and the […]
Echinoderms are mostly sedentary and hence they are more peaceful than other phylas :)