ZenthianAnnelids

For More Images : https://blog.illestpreacha.com/sciartseptember2023favorite

For the Third prompt of SciArtSeptember2023: "Favorite", I took a previously made LiveCodeLab sketch on Annelids and gave them a Zenthian update.

Annelids refer to species such as earthworms and leeches. And these are the variants that are possible in the Zenthian ecosystem.

Link to the previous code and images: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/wccchallenge-digitalorganism

Poetry

What if We can build Organisms
Through the strides of time
Through the virtue of lines
But represented in cos and sine
That merges
That blends
The different areas that mends
Adding modulo
To see how the different angles
May roll
May be control
Through the lens of digi annelids
As they squirm
As they wiggle
Wiggle and dangle
From different viewpoints
Where the modulo controls the joints
As they may be like squids, snails or worms

#sciartseptember #sciartseptember3 #sciartseptember2023 #creativecoding #coding
#newmedia #scifi #animation #sciart #monthlychallenge #annelids

Thanks to Bernard and Sandie Degnan for including our annelid life cycle paper in their spotlight for Trends in Genetics

"How larvae and life cycles evolve"

https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/fulltext/S0168-9525(23)00086-0

Good that our work keeps on making a contribution to the community

#EvoDevo #Annelids

Bizarre Beasts: *Why Does This Worm Have So Many Butts?*

:youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9632hMjUr00

This is about the Ramisyllis multicaudata, a branching species of bristle worm (from the Annelid phylum). Extremely odd creature! CW: Don't watch if you are triggered by #worms and #sponges. Although this worm looks more like a brittle star (who are not related at all btw).

:wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramisyllis_multicaudata

#annelids #bristleWorms #marineLife

Bizarre Beasts: *Why Does This Worm Have So Many Butts?*

:youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9632hMjUr00

This is about the Ramisyllis multicaudata, a branching species of bristle worm (from the Annelid phylum). Extremely odd creature! CW: Don't watch if you are triggerd by #worms and #sponges. Although this worm looks more like a brittle star (who are not related at all btw).

:wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramisyllis_multicaudata

#annelids #bristleWorms #marineLife

The #endoskeleton formed by the #aciculae and supported by many muscles is quite unique to polychaete annelids and represents the only example outside the #tetrapods of animals with a trunk appendages rigidified by an endoskeleton. Aciculae evolved in stem errant #annelids in the Early #Ordovician indicating the deep ancestry of these structures, predating tetrapod limbs.

@Poppi62 Nice follow up on Gaspar Jekely's reply to Kevin Mitchell ... it is indeed a remarkable development, a great example of how #parasitism can result in greatly simplified organs and body plans in animals such as #annelids.
#DevBio