was commissioned to undertake the identification of the radiolarians for British Challenger expedition in the 1870s & described more than 4,000 species of these exquisite unicellular organisms.
He went on to be awarded the Linnean Society’s Linnean Medal in 1894.

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Leaf sheep and clownfish are played out, so today we stretch the definition of to its limit. This single-celled solar-powered symbiont is a radiolarian.

(Her legs are pseudopods. 😤)

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No you are not dreaming... that's a HUGE To my knowledge, the only known image of a living Cytocladus spinosus (Polycystine, Orodaria). These are extremely rare. Huge shout out to for this capture off California

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Radiolarians
The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger
Report on the Radiolaria 1887
Ernst Haeckel

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yeah been trying for an hour or so and it's actually a relatively "boring" one :-/ - you can't force it to start doing much else. The "popcorn"-type fractals or Pickover Radiolarian or flame fractals might be better-suited

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これとか、もう本当に言葉が出ない。美しいチュートリアル。

"Radiolarians (Ilustrator tutorial)", a project on :: https://t.co/Cce9SibSj0

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