This wonderfully hypnotic animation is the work of Eleanor Lutz. Lutz specialises in taking science data and turning it into visualisations that make sense.
In this case Lutz is showing a zygote becomes a baby using a style designed by Nicolas Fong.
Despite the success, Lutz wasn’t entirely happy. She wrote;
I am a little sad that I wasn’t able to show size properly though. For example. the 24 week fetus is about 40 times heavier than a 12 week fetus (but you can’t tell that from this drawing).
In Pure Spirit
If you could ask Eleanor Lutz to visualise any set of data what would you ask her to do?
(Via Io9.)
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