Comment by hnlmorg

2 days ago

Humans aren’t symmetrical though.

This would more like zooming into one edge of a snowflake and then rotating it.

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Terr_  2 days ago

> Humans aren’t symmetrical though.

Perhaps you assumed a "radially" which wasn't part of my analogy? :p

Land animals have a pretty consistent trend of exterior bilateral symmetry which is very noticeable. (Naturally, a completely normal Hunam such as myself cannot speak for how it may work in places other than my home planet Dirt.)

  • hnlmorg  2 days ago

    I understood you meant bilateral symmetry. And yes, there are similarities, but we are not bilaterally symmetric. At least not to the extent where you can flip an image and have that look normal.

    Even faces look weird when flipped that way (there have been studies on this effect too). And that’s before you get into the issue that it’s common to have differently shaped breasts, different sized hands or feet. Ears shaped differently. Non-uniform teeth. And so on and so forth.