Cyrtoidea

Cyrtoidea

Cyrtoidea“, from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur “Art Forms of Nature, 1904. Beautiful, no?

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  1. Oh my, yes these are stunning.

  2. As a result of this post I discovered the documentary ‘Proteus’ about Ernst Haeckel. In the film drawings like this are sequenced into some amazing animations. You can see examples in this video taken from the film: http://tmblr.co/Z1ggrudUD_nM