Another flatlander

[ffutures]

Here's another attempt at a flatland picture, using a technique which ought to be fairly versatile:



The way I did this one was to make the triangle and mouth in a drawing program and print it onto marbled paper, then guillotine and cut it to shape, then scan it. May sound silly, but it seems to work and it's FAST, I did this one in about ten minutes from start to finish!

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[doctor-toc.livejournal.com]

Nice. Needs some limbs though, and maybe some globs inside. Maybe that old ink-and-oil printing technique from school might work? Or leaf veins?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Limbs? Flatlanders don't have limbs (or if they do they never mention them) so I've been drawing them without limbs but with things like swords, pouches, etc. next to them, and leaving it to the ref to decide how that works.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Forgot to say that I've been assuming in my own games that they do in fact have some sort of hands which exude from their bodies but they are never mentioned because they are - gasp - irregular.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Oh, now that's good, I like that.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The fun part is that I can make little swords etc. and pose them, so I don't have to keep making variations on the same image over and over again.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Better, but still not there.

I'm thinking that, as we are 3D, we can seee inside the Flatlanders. Effectively, we have x-ray vision. So we should be able to see their 'squidgy bits'.

I recall that scientists have done thought-experiments to design flat cells and so forth. I'm just not remembering where I saw this written up, and where to go about looking for the illustrations of their innards. I suspect Ian Stewart's book Flatterland might be a good place to start -- I'll check when I get home.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Dewdney's "The Planiverse" may be what you're thinking of. I have a copy, but they aren't very like Abbot's Flatlanders, his book describes a 2D world in which the world is a disk with the flatlanders living on the rim.

The nearest approximation I can think of for similar really flat organs is a liver fluke - but even there you see tubes crossing etc. if you look really carefully.

Here's the same shape with some liver fluke anatomy superimposed. Not sure I like it as much...