Where's the octopus?

Post by **MaCaBr3** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:51 am

:icon28: http://media2.big-boys.com/media/octopus1.wmv

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:01 am

Post by **losCHUNK** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:02 am

holy fucking shit, i would fucking SHIT if i ever seen that

Post by **Cool Blue** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:13 am

losCHUNK wrote:holy fucking shit, i would fucking SHIT if i ever seen that

Post by **R00k** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:47 am

I knew they could change colors to blend in, but that's fucking incredible. :icon28: :icon28:

Post by **Pauly** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:35 am

bullshit

Post by **Don Carlos** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:12 am

losCHUNK wrote:holy fucking shit, i would fucking SHIT if i ever seen that

:icon28:

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:41 am

not fake - saw a documentary that had a section on cuttlefish (the thing in the video is a cuttlefish if i'm not mistaken, although octopuses do the same shit). They showed that same exact video. The creatures can actually change the 3d texture of their skin as well as the colour. The neural processing that accomplishes this is startlingly sophisticated.

They're highly intelligent creatures, the cephalapods...

Post by **mjrpes** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:51 am

pretty neat, now if only there was some way for the military to exploit it.

Post by **feedback** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:13 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:not fake - saw a documentary that had a section on cuttlefish (the thing in the video is a cuttlefish if i'm not mistaken, although octopuses do the same shit). They showed that same exact video. The creatures can actually change the 3d texture of their skin as well as the colour. The neural processing that accomplishes this is startlingly sophisticated.

They're highly intelligent creatures, the cephalapods...

That is an octopus in the video. They're supposed to be quite a bit smarter than cats. (octopus)

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:13 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:not fake - saw a documentary that had a section on cuttlefish (the thing in the video is a cuttlefish if i'm not mistaken, although octopuses do the same shit). They showed that same exact video. The creatures can actually change the 3d texture of their skin as well as the colour. The neural processing that accomplishes this is startlingly sophisticated.

They're highly intelligent creatures, the cephalapods...

indeed
there are lots of fish and other sea creatures so many miles underwater that do this kind of crap.
it really is baffling

Post by **ilum0s** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:25 pm

That's crazy, I've seen other fish like lie on sand and blend in, but on a plant, man that's incredible.
On some random documentary I saw them put a similar self-camoflauging fish on a checkered floor to see how it would try to hide itself, it ended up doing a black and white pattern which wasn't linear but yeah still incredible.

Post by **saturn** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:39 pm

if you say it's faked, you have to tell why instead of quoting yourself again

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:41 pm

old...millions of years old...

Post by **Don Carlos** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:41 pm

mjrpes wrote:pretty neat, now if only there was some way for the military to exploit it.

a tank in a giant fish tank filled with those things !!!

Post by **bork[e]** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:47 pm

Don Carlos wrote:
mjrpes wrote:pretty neat, now if only there was some way for the military to exploit it.
a tank in a giant fish tank filled with those things !!!

hmmm, so those things can take the shape and color of the tank? That might work.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:49 pm

that actually made me laugh. lol

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:25 pm

[xeno]Julios wrote:not fake - saw a documentary that had a section on cuttlefish (the thing in the video is a cuttlefish if i'm not mistaken, although octopuses do the same shit). They showed that same exact video. The creatures can actually change the 3d texture of their skin as well as the colour. The neural processing that accomplishes this is startlingly sophisticated.

They're highly intelligent creatures, the cephalapods...

Good to know. Extremely impressive.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:02 pm

feedback wrote:
That is an octopus in the video. They're supposed to be quite a bit smarter than cats. (octopus)

you may be right, but they showed that video in the documentary I saw, right after talking about cuttlefish.

this is a cuttlefish:

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:03 pm

ilum0s wrote:That's crazy, I've seen other fish like lie on sand and blend in, but on a plant, man that's incredible.
On some random documentary I saw them put a similar self-camoflauging fish on a checkered floor to see how it would try to hide itself, it ended up doing a black and white pattern which wasn't linear but yeah still incredible.

was the documentary called "Origins"?

Post by **werldhed** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:08 pm

[xeno]Julios wrote:not fake - saw a documentary that had a section on cuttlefish (the thing in the video is a cuttlefish if i'm not mistaken, although octopuses do the same shit). They showed that same exact video. The creatures can actually change the 3d texture of their skin as well as the colour. The neural processing that accomplishes this is startlingly sophisticated.

They're highly intelligent creatures, the cephalapods...

That may have been the same documentary I saw once -- they showed how cuttlefish shift through crazy, colorful patterns in a high-speed psychedelic visual freak-out that actually hypnotizes crabs. This allows the cuttlefish to swim right up to their prey and eat them. The whole time the crab just sits there groooooovin' on it...
It was a great video, but I can't find a clip of it anywhere.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:06 pm

Yeah I saw a documentary of that fish along with other color changnig fish in the ocean. They're incredibly remarkable, I was especialy impressed with the one that changed colour to mimic the reflecting light off the sand on the bottom of the ocean. It's pretty weird to see an animal change colors so rapidly.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:35 pm

Octopi die after fucking. That's extremely disturbing to me, and makes them totally unfit to rule the world imo.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:09 pm

They do?

Post by **ilum0s** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:31 pm

[xeno]Julios wrote:
was the documentary called "Origins"?

Maybe but i'm not sure, it was over here in the UK, and it was all about weird and wonderful animals, like a species of crab with a velcro-like material on it which it used to stick material to, to attract a mate or camoflauge. (They put it in a tank full of random human jewlrey and it happily stuck it all to itself and ended up looking like one of bowie's costumes)