this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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[–] Booker@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] orl0pl@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Square root of one tree

[–] rynzcycle@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is there a phobia for what I'm seeing, because I think I have it.

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's related to trypophobia, which is fear of patterns of holes and bumps. It's tied into your ability to perceive disease and the disgust is your body's avoidance mechanism so you don't go near.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia

There is a singular image of a plant so that link shouldnt be too triggering as it doesn't show images of comparable flesh (at least on mobile).

[–] Zhao@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Whoa. That's wicked cool. Thanks for that.

[–] gsfraley@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know right? I can't quite put my finger on why, but it gives me "Fault of Amigara" vibes

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It feels very Southern Reach to me (books, I haven't seen the movie).

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Dude for real. This disturbs me for the life of this tree.

[–] Stinkywinks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah this vieny shit and trypophobia gets me. This is less bad, but once I was spray painting in the cold and it dried wierd and veiny. Grossed me out.

[–] electrogamerman@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Fourpophobia

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Simultaneously cool and trypophobia inducing for me.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

We are Borg.

That doesn't seem to be healthy for the tree at all.

[–] YashaB@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Holy shit. This looks like it's generated by CGI. Damn, nature is scary, but somehow, awesome!

[–] Gooboob@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That tree has been assimilated by the Borg.