Interview: Weibo blogger @ Small dumplings of storing shells
In the vast world of animals,
mollusca
It is a large class of colorful species,
Most of them,
will grow a shell for defense,
This is what we often call "shell".
But unfortunately,
Shells are very important to humans,
Humans know very little about shells.
Believe me, I ask you,
How many different kinds of shells are there in nature?
You may not know,
But the post-85 guys "small balls of shells" know,
Xiao Tuanzi is a science and engineering man,
But after an accidental contact with the shell,
He became a collector of shell specimens,
A few years down,
He has a collection of nearly a thousand kinds of shells,
He loves photography,
The number of photos taken is too numerous to calculate.
In his photographs,
There are many shells that you have never seen before,
They come in different shapes, sizes, textures,
And the color.
In the eyes of ordinary people,
Shellfish may just be a food,
But in the eyes of the shell collector Xiao Tuanzi,
The shell not only contains,
An ultimate mathematical art,
aesthetic art,
and as a naturalist collection,
It also has high scientific research value and collection value.
Shells are of great aesthetic value.
"Conservative estimates,
There are about 85,000 species in the world,
species of living molluscs that have been described,
Of these, about thirty-five thousand live on land,
More than a thousand kinds of people live in the gutter,
In the fresh water such as mountains and lakes,
The rest live in the ocean,
Our common shells,
Just a very small part of it,
Therefore, many people underestimate the beauty of the shells. ”
How beautiful are shells?
Here are the following,
Nature nurtures a series of natural colored shells,
Maybe I can tell you the answer.
Yellow shell
Green shell
Blue shell
Red shell
Orange shell
Purple shell
Lilac shell
Black shell
Wood-colored shells
In addition to color,
The shape of the shell is also ever-changing.
Only you can't think of it,
You can't do it without it.
"How many types of shells are there,
As many shapes as there are,
But in general,
Shellfish that can be collected,
Can be divided into five outlines,
They are:
Gastropods, bivalves, cephalopods,
Polyplateral, Teda,
These are divided into hundreds of families,
Even species of the same family,
Shapes can also vary greatly. ”
Marine gastropod shellfish are also what we often call snails
Marine bivalves Are often referred to as clams and mussels
LuBei collection
Specimens of shellfish of cephalopods, multiplypods, and thizophores
But
In a kaleidoscopic shape,
The most common are,
Round, fan-shaped, lobed,
Tubular shapes and so on.
Round shell
Small dough collection of shellfish of the conch family
Small dough collection of shellfish of the salamander family
Conical shellfish belong to the bell snail family, lisopheae, eggshell snail family and other shellfish
Many people are keen to go to the beach to collect shells,
But in fact,
There is no understanding of the structure of the shell.
"In the shells that look like we have only one layer,
In fact, it is divided into three layers,
There are some shellfish,
The outermost layer is the stratum corneum composed of hard proteins;
In the middle is a prismatic layer composed of calcite or aragonite crystals,
Mainly provides hardness and corrosion resistance to shells;
The innermost layer is nacre,
Mainly to provide hardness and toughness for shells,
Generally composed of Calcite or aragonite and other CaCO3 minerals (inorganic phase),
and organic matter (organic phase) composition. ”
Shells have great geological significance,
It is the most common way of preserving fossils.
can be used to determine the phylogenetic evolution of geological formation,
The exact age of the formation,
and the classification of shellfish populations.
Small dough collection of shells of the Family Pyropodidae
Shells are the ultimate mathematical art.
"The mollusks are really magical,
They are natural architects,
When building your own shell,
Just follow a few mathematical rules,
You can produce beautiful shells. ”
The mouth lid of the snail, also known as the "three", the mouth cover of these salamanders is like a beautiful jewel
For example, the Fibonacci sequence,
That is, the golden ratio series,
Just look at the shape,
Is it very similar to the spiral of a shell?
Many shells follow the golden section sequence,
Especially the conch.
There are three basic rules for conch generation:
Expand, rotate and twist.
Most of the conch,
It's all started with a very small, thin hollow cone,
Slowly expanding, spinning,
the spiral formed by twisting,
The spirochetes have been expanding incrementally, with the largest screw port.
Although the shapes of the snails are various and strange,
But all follow the spiral,
Including but not limited to:
Conformal spiral, Archimedean spiral,
Fermat spiral, isometric thread,
Hyperbolic spirals, round inner spirals, etc...
Other words
You don't need to be able to paint at all.
You just have to be able to draw mathematical sequences,
You can draw the perfect conch.
More than conch,
other shells,
Most also follow some sort of mathematical rule.
Small dumplings collected from native Chinese snails
As a shell collector,
The reason why the small dumplings originally collected shells,
It is because of seeing its unique aesthetic and collectible value.
Each shell is classified and collected
"Shells, though only exoskeletons of mollusks,
But it reflects the species and distribution of species in nature.
Just like nature does not have two identical leaves,
There are no two identical shells in the sea,
Each shell specimen is so unique,
These natural specimens,
often does not carry any utilitarian nature,
All really like science,
People who love nature,
Will be obsessed with shells. ”
Pycnidae
Carambola family
seashell
It is the epitome of the beauty of nature.
The small dough collection of sea fan clams, that is, scallops
Shells from the small dough collection,
Although not all are precious varieties,
But each one is unique,
Take it all out enough to watch three days and three nights.
South African Baoluo,
Haliotis midae Linnaeus, 1758
The shell is oval in shape,
The shell is covered with,
Wavy ribs concentric to the outer rim,
Strong pearls in the shell,
And there is a strong flash,
It is a high-grade edible shellfish.
Lettuce snail,
Chicoreus cichoreum (Gmelin, 1791)
Like a musket-roasted meringue.
Keel rock snail,
The shape is a bit like a flower roll.
Magnificent twist snail,
Also known as the luxurious red snail
Bullina nobilis Habe,1950
Distributed in the East China Sea,
and small shellfish in the waters of Japan,
The shell is light and thin, and the shell is white on the background,
It is accompanied by a red thread pattern.
New Zealand Abalone/Rainbow Abalone
Haliotis iris Martyn, 1784
The nacre inside the shell is bright,
There is a strong rainbow,
Blue, green, lilac colorful flash,
Large central muscle marks,
It often has unsmooth lines and patches.
Blue Rain Snail,
Because of part of its population shell,
Most of the background color is indigo blue,
and accompanied by light white spots,
So it's called Blue Rain.
Lace snails
Pseudotrochatella nogieri
(Dautzenberg & d ́Hamooville, 1887)
Produced in Vietnam, about 24mm in diameter,
Waves of the body spiral layer,
It's like a step up.
Gold little dot snail,
Helicostyla ( Pachysphaera )
annulata (G. B. Sowerby, 1841)
Small land shells living in the forests of northern Luzon in the Philippines,
The shell is about two centimeters long and varies in color.
Half-hearted chicken heart clams ,
Lunulicardia hemicardium
(Linnaeus, 1758)
"Look,
Even the shell is the shape of love you..."
cat's eye salamander,
Turbo petholatus Linnaeus, 1758
The spiral layer is about five layers,
The shoulders are sleek, and some individuals are relatively gentle,
The screw shaft is bright yellow to yellowish green.
Rose rhombus conch,
Also known as rose deception snail,
Phenacovolva rosea
(A. Adams, 1854)
Roses are usually parasitic on gorgonian corals,
and feed on it,
Can be the color of the food,
Assembled on their own coat film,
This makes it difficult to spot on corals.
Sophia vortex snail
Cymbiola sophia(Gray, 1846)
Australia (Queensland)
The trawl is mined from a fine sandy seabed at a depth of 60 metres.
Genus Spiny snail or star snail genus,
Guildfordia
Looks like starfish,
These thorns can serve as a defense,
It also prevents predators from flipping them over.
Spiral snail,
Thatcheria mirabilis
Also known as the Strange Broad Shoulder Snail,
It is said that the unique shape of the spiral snail inspired,
frank. Lloyd. Inspiration from Wright,
This led to the design of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Pinnacle snail,
Xenopoma spinosissimum
Torre and Bartsch, 1941
The valgus lip is formed during the suspension process.
Judy Bone Snail,
Favartia judithae Bertsch & d’Attilio, 1980
Shaped like a constantly twisting dancer.
Yellow-sided birdtail clam,
Cardium
Also called yellow-sided rough cockles and chicken leg clams,
It is named because its axe foot resembles a chicken leg
……
Speaking of which,
Small tuanzi's interest in shells,
It began in childhood.
"When I was very young,
In terms of all kinds of things about nature,
With a strong interest,
A small leaf, a small stone,
A small insect,
I can patiently observe for a long time. ”
When I was in college,
He chose the popular mechanical design and manufacturing major,
After graduation, I face various drawings every day,
Sometimes it feels a bit boring.
At this time,
He happened to look at one online,
Videos about shell knowledge,
It is a popular science video made by teacher He Jing in Shanghai,
Basically every video episode,
They're all introducing an interesting little shell.
He was amazed:
There is such an interesting thing in nature!
The shell immediately attracted him,
To learn more about shells,
He bought a lot of books online,
also buy shells on the Internet,
learn how to identify species names,
check the quality,
Slowly built up their own collection.
"I'm in the shell collection field,
belongs to the type of miscellaneous income,
Miscellaneous harvesting is that all families will be involved,
Not only the shellfish in the sea,
Lu Bei (snail) will also be involved,
Even some small orders in shellfish,
For example, polyplates (stone turtle),
and The Sorcereres (Ivory Shells).
My collection of shellfish,
Often not very expensive or rare,
But there must be a characteristic,
Or is it brightly colored,
Unique in form. ”
The way to collect,
In addition to going to the beach to collect shells himself,
Mainly online purchase and bet friends exchange.
"It feels like smoking a blind box,
I have one more of this breed,
You have one less variety,
We'll swap it out.
Complementarity. ”
On the way to collect shells,
He made a lot of friends.
"Some of them are engaged in aerospace.
Some are doctors police,
Because of common interests,
Became friends with each other,
Sometimes shells are exchanged together,
Talk about stories about shells,
Sometimes we will archeologically together,
It makes my boring life a lot more interesting. ”
For small groups,
Shells have a temperature,
That's the temperature between people.
Because when I was in college, I worked as a photojournalist for the school newspaper.
The photography level of the small group is also very good,
After collecting more shells,
He developed a desire to share,
So I photographed the shells.
Posted to the network to do popular science.
He launched a tweet,
It's called sharing a kind of shell knowledge every day,
Attracted a lot of attention.
For rigor, before each sharing,
He had to look up the information for a long time,
In order to explain the knowledge of a shell thoroughly.
Although hard,
But after some netizens saw the shell knowledge he shared,
Also into the pit,
This makes the little group feel particularly happy:
"As long as one more person can appreciate the beauty of the shell,
Even if my hard work is not in vain. ”
The beauty of the shell is never in the appearance,
It is a very practical art from the inside out.
"Shells not only gather mathematics, aesthetics,
And architecture,
Even agronomy, mechanics,
Shell knowledge is like a vast ocean,
The more I learn, the more I feel,
Human beings are so small in the face of nature. ”
Many modern buildings are inspired by shells.
"Vietnamese Jomon Eoso,
It is a prototype of the Amazon building.
Alda Headquarters Building in Abu Dhabi, UAE,
The prototype comes from the Nautilus.
The Spiral Tower in Chicago, USA,
Inspired by bamboo shoot snails. ”
Vietnamese Jomon snail
But because it is too common,
Many people overlook the beauty of shells.
Shells, like sweeping monks hidden in the world,
Although unremarkable,
But it hides the most secrets.
Although science has evolved to this day,
But in the face of the natural architect shell,
I have to say,
There is much more to be learned.
"Shells are the art of nature,
Born to grow into the most elegant appearance of the golden spiral,
Without calculation, you can grow the most perfect posture,
Implies many mathematical sequences. ”
This may indicate:
"True art and beauty,
It's never been created by humans.
It's nature.
Creatures and all things that exist naturally. ”
Scorpion in the snail, new bright red banana snail, Pterynotus miyokoae
Nature is the real magic.
Although the shell is small,
But it is a pearl in the sea, and it is the ultimate in aesthetics.
Tiny shells,
There are endless mysteries,
Humanity will spend its entire life exploring.
Fortunately,
In this impetuous era,
And the little balls like this,
Those who love shells bravely move forward,
That's why we see beauty off the beaten track.
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Shell Carnival event held at Shanghai Longbai Hotel,
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