互联网上产生的奇怪动物
发布: 2009-3-26 12:04 | 作者: cnnas | 来源: 大风车中英文门户网站社区
互联网上产生的奇怪动物
Internet contest to morph animals results in strange crossbreeds.
一个互联网图片合成竞赛为我们展示了形态奇怪的动物杂交的结果。
从表面上看，这些令人难以置信的离奇新物种无疑将让已故的查尔斯达尔文和大卫阿滕伯勒无话可说....
On the face of it, these are incredibly bizarre undiscovered species which would no doubt leave Charles Darwin and David Attenborough speechless....
....但事实上，这些样貌离奇的动物是一起利用计算机技术进行的互联网竞赛将不同种类的动物合成的结果。
....but in fact these odd-looking creatures are the weird and wonderful results of an internet competition to morph different animals together using computer technology
艺术家们巧妙地将两个或三个生物的照片在屏幕上无缝地接合在一起，创建出非自然选择的奇特动物。
Artists have cleverly taken photographs of two or three creatures and seamlessly blended them together on screen to create the unnatural selection of quirky animals
克隆出合成的动物，然后发布到网上，并已成为一个巨大的互联网热点，全球网民都在点击观看。
The results of the cloned creatures are then posted online and have become a huge internet hit with people across the world viewing them
一些最受欢迎的作品包括Frogodile（鳄头蛙身） -绿色的青蛙的身体拼接上缩小的鳄鱼的头..
Some of the most popular works include a Frogodile - the body of a green frog with the shrunken head of a crocodile..
一个Cabbit ，一个爱丽丝漫游仙境般的有着兔子头部的猫.
...a Cabbit, an Alice in Wonderland-like creation of a rabbit with the head of a cat...
和Zebrog ，介于斑马和黑白条纹青蛙之间
...and a Zebrog, a cross between a tiny zebra and a black and white striped frog
The wacky images have been created using Photoshop or the free software Aviary, and posted on the company's online gallery Worth 1000
Avi Muchnick, 29, the chief executive of Aviary, said: "I am blown away by some of the work, a lot of the pictures look so life-like"
"We have work sent to us from people all over the world. Normally, users will take photos of the animals themselves or download them from royalty-free search sites"
"They use all sorts of techniques to bring them together to make the new animal look as real as possible"
"Most of the users aren't artists by profession but still have great skill to produce these fabulous works of art," he said
"It takes me two or three hours to craft a really outstanding photo but some people can do it in minutes"
Other popular creations include the Kangarion, a lion's head on the body of a kangaroo...
...a Cat-Cow....
....and a Pealiot - the morphing of a sea lion and a parrot
One fan posted: "An assortment of fruity animal mutants that are so well crafted you have to look twice"
Another poster said: "The world would be so amazing with these animals!"
Other web favourites include the Turtlehopper, a combination of turtle and grasshopper....
...the Tiglar bear....
....the much feared Squinocerous....