Flatland natives - first batch

[ffutures]

Here's my first bunch of Flatland natives with some serious scientific stuff:

Later edit - revised art and more text added





Typical natives of Flatland

[from left to right, above then below] A woman of good family (her internal anatomy is so narrow as to be invisible) ~ An obvious member of the lower orders, probably a servant or artisan ~ A poor but honest tradesman ~ A Square, narrator of Flatland ~ Doctor Pentagon, the learned physician ~ Squire Hexagon, a wealthy landowner ~ Sir Sefton Septagon, baronet ~ Count Otto von Octagon of Polygonia ~ A sinister irregular figure.

Note that the colours shown are invisible to Flatlanders and may change completely from one day to the next – their bodies are thinner than the wavelength of visible light and have varying density according to their diet and physical condition; as a result they diffract light unpredictably. All of the anatomy shown, other than the external lines, is also invisible to them since it disintegrates if damaged; some of it has been inferred, often incorrectly.



I'm rather pleased with them, I think...

Comments

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Do Flatlanders always have open mouths? Or are those mandibles?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's an eye / mouth and possibly also manipulatory and excretory organ, though Abbott is always very coy about stuff like that.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Any way to get some variation/texture into the mouths? It's disconcerting having them all the same. (And all hanging open at the same time looks strange too.)

ISTR that the soldiers are dangerous because they are pointed. But _all_ of these figures have the same pointy-parts on their mouths.

I like the differing colours etc for the interiors. I'm still looking for that 2D critter reference -- I have it somewhere in the study....

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's a good idea - I'll look into it. I suppose they could have transparent eye-lid / lits or something, like snakes.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Okay, new version uploaded - I've added eye lids and made the woman into a straight line rather than a very narrow triangle, which was my memory playing tricks on me.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

And I totally read those as eyes.