how to draw a tetrapod

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Concrete tetrapods are used to dissipate wave energy in coastal defences.

There's a bit of a craze for making tetrapod-shaped things: recently I've seen people making a plush tetrapod and a tetrapod lamp. So I thought it might be fun to model one.

I found a nice way to describe tetrapods that relies on very few arbitrary aesthetic choices.

Click here to play with an animated tetrapod which I made using three.js. (You can see its source code too.)

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