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XfrogPlants | Red Sea Library Version 2.0


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What's New, and Usage Information for XfrogPlants Red Sea Library, Version 2.0 60 XFR (Xfrog) + 60 Models of one additional 3D format are included in the /Models folder. (You may select online at xfrog.com, or from your reseller, from most popular 3D formats, such as Maya, 3ds Max, Lightwave, CINEMA 4D, OBJ, 3ds, etc. to be the additional format included on your CDROM) NOTE - If you purchase our DVDs, they contain ALL 3D formats listed above, inside the DVD, and more! 60 TIFF+Alpha Billboard Renders are included in the /Billboards folder. (You can map them onto single or crossed polygons, or drag and drop them directly into background images) 60 TIFF+Alpha Perspective Renders are included in the /Perspectives folder. (You can use their object buffer to place them into background images, ideal for quick comps) Many Leaf and Bark and Flower Textures are replaced with Higher Quality Textures. (A year long search and collection effort has yielded much higher texture quality than earlier efforts) Many Models were completely rebuilt for better accuracy. (Over the past 3 years we have greatly improved our knowledge and modeling capabilities and we have rebuilt many early models, the results of many months of efforts is Version 2.0) Each XfrogPlants Library is now available in several more popular 3D formats. (Maya, Vue d'Esprit, RIB, have been added to a long list of available additional 3d formats) Each XfrogPlants Library PDF was re-created and showcases the quality of Version 2.0. (New nicer layout and now we exhibit all Models as Perspective Renders instead of one Render per Species) Plugins are included to import XFR into Maya, 3ds max, Lightwave, and CINEMA 4D. (You can directly import XfrogPlants models, or edits you make in Xfrog, into the above programs) Xfrog Software, Plugins, Demos: http://www.xfrog.com Xfrog User Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Xfrog/ Xfrog User Gallery: http://www.xfrog.com/4images/

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Author This XfrogPlants documentation was created in November 2004 by Jan Heuschele.

Orio Menoni Modeler

Jan Walter Schliep Modeler

Jan Heuschele Modeler

Tany Heider Rendering

Karin Rudokas Rendering

Peter Fantke Research and Development

Bernd Lintermann Research and Development

Oliver Deussen Research and Development

Stewart McSherry Product Manager

XfrogPlants Development


01. Red Sea Fan ( Acabaria biserialis )

Clade: Cnidaria Depth: deeper than -10 m. Distribution : Red Sea

Environment : coral reef slopes

Climate : warm waters

Notes : The Red Sea Fan lives wirthin protected outer reefs starting from a depth

of 10 m. This coral can grow around 1cm. per month, and like Annella mollis it orientates it’s fan transverse to the current. The branches

consist of chalky parts connected by a horn-like material.

Model 1 50 centimeters




02. Crown Of Thorns Starfish ( Acanthaster planci )

Clade: Echinodermata Depth: -0,5 to -30 m. Distribution : Red Sea to Central America

Environment : coral reef


Notes : The Crown Of Thorns belongs (like sea urchins, brittle stars and other classes) to the clade of

Echinodermata. The colour is very variable and can range from red over magenta to olive. Likewise variable is the number of arms (10-23). Coral polyps are the prefered nutrition,

which already led to a wide destruction of coral reefs, in case of an outbreak. One should avoid the contact with the pricks, as painful injuries can develop

in combination with a separately secreted poisonous mucus.





03. Low Acropora ( Acropora hemprichi )

Clade: Cnidaria Depth: -2 to -30 m. Distribution : Red Sea to Sri Lanka

Environment : exposed reef slopes


Notes : This Acropora species settles on exposed reef roofs and the upper section of the

reef slopes. Acropora of the Red Sea in general are usually strongly colored, particularly at the axial polyps of the branch tips. They nourish themselves

like many other stone coral of the photosynthesis products of the stored zooxanthells, but also of planctonic organisms.





04. Giant Sea Fan ( Annella mollis )

Clade: Cnidaria Depth: -10 to -50 m. Distribution : Red Sea and West Pacific

Environment : exposed reef slopes


Notes : The Giant Sea Fan belongs to the class of the flower animals (Anthozoa) and always place their up to 2 meters large fans transverse to the sea current.

Thus it can fish its food, small plancton, better out of water. This coral species is usually found in depths of down to 50 m. in the external reefs.

Model 1 1.7 meters

Model 2 1.7 meters

Model 3 1.6 meters


05. Naked Basket Star ( Astroba nuda )

Clade: Echinodermata Depth: -1 to -20 m. Distribution : Red Sea to New Caledonia

Environment : exposed reef formations, in strong currents


Notes : As representative species of the Brittle Stars class, the Naked Basket Star is

part of the Echinodermata phylum, which also encompasses other sea urchins. The strongly ramified branches are very flexible by their small branch vertebrae. During the day Astroba nuda hides itself in columns and

chinks within the reef, while they spread around their arms at night to catch food at exposed places.

Model 1 1 meter

Model 2 1 meter

Model 3 1.1 meters


06. Grape Caulerpa ( Caulerpa racemosa )

Clade: Chlorophyta (green algae) Depth: 0 to –35 m. Distribution : tropical

Environment : all kind of habitats, form tidal pools to reef slopes


Notes : This edible alga inhabits a large number of different habitats within the reef,

from tidal pools to the reef slopes of outer reefs. The alga spreads by tiller and forms dense populations, which can be found in almost all tropical areas.





07. Feather Caulerpa ( Caulerpa sertularoides )


Environment : all kind of habitats, form tidal pools to reef slopes


Notes : It lives on both sand and hard ground in tidal pools. This kind is related to

Caulerpa taxifolia, which became a problem in the Mediterranean area, thus they overgrow almost all habitats.





08. Tube Anemone ( Cerianthus sp. )

Clade: Cnidaria Depth: -1 to –40 m. Distribution : Red Sea to Polynesia

Environment : sandy or muddy ground


Notes : Cerianthus belongs to the class of the flower animals. With their up to 10cm

through-measuring living tubes they live on sand- and mud grounds up to depths of 40m. The long and very numerously existing tentacles

serves the catch of small invertebrates like small crustaceans. The body is usually slightly transparency.





Clade: Cnidaria Depth: -2 to –50 m. Distribution : Red Sea and West Pacific

Environment : sandy or muddy ground


Notes : The carnation coral is part of the Soft corals. These do not possess a stable interior skeleton but attain their stability by hydrostatic pressure inside the body and by incorporated sclerits. These can often be remarkably colored.

Carnation corals are known as pioneer settlers and inhabits from flat lagoons to deep reefs a wide variety of different habitats.

09. Carnation Coral ( Dendronephthya sp. )





10. Long-Spined Sea Urchin ( Diadema setosum )

Clade: Echinodermata Depth: -0,5 to –25 m. Distribution : Red Sea to Polynesia

Environment : reef roofs, protected reef slopes


Notes : The Long-Spined Sea Urchin inhabits like Echinometra mathaei reef roofs and protected reef slopes. You should stay away from the long

pricks as they are very poisonous and cause painful wounds.





11. Mathaeus Sea Urchin ( Echinometra mathaei )

Clade: Echinodermata Depth: 0 to –8 m. Distribution : Red Sea to Polynesia



Notes : Mathaeus Sea Urchin is a frequent inhabitant of the reef. He is to be found

on the reef roof and at the upper reef slopes. During the day they hide themselves in holes (scraped by their own) in the coral rocks, before

they come out at night to food search. The contrast between the reddish-brown pricks and the white basal ring is salient.





12. Groved Mosaic Coral ( Favia favus )

Clade: Cnidaria Depth: varied Distribution : Red Sea to Polynesia



Notes : This stone coral large and from each other separated cups and develops solid

colonies. The color spectrum ranges from green to brown. At night the polyps are opened to catch food. You will find this species

on reef roofs and at protected slopes.





13. Curved Mushroom Coral ( Fungia scruposa )

Clade: Cnidaria Depth: -0,3 to –25 m. Distribution : Red Sea to Polynesia

Environment : reef roofs, reef slopes, lagoons


Notes : This kind of coral belongs to the clade of family of mushroom corals, with its

vagile colonies. It settles usually on rubble or on dead corals within the entire ecological range of the coral reef. The roundish or

oval disks can reach a diameter up to 24cm.





14. Honeycomb Coral ( Goniastrea edwardsi )

Clade: Cnidaria Depth: varied Distribution : Red Sea to Samoa

Environment : shallow slopes


Notes : This stone coral can occur either in single separated colonies or in a columnar

variant. The colouring covers a spectrum from pink to pale colors. It has a relatively high need for light and it is nourished by the photosynthesis

of the incorporated zooxanthells and by catched plankton.





15. Halimeda ( Halimeda sp. )


Environment : between sea weed, on hard ground of reef slopes, on boulders


Notes : The Halimeda algae settles usually on hard grounds and form by their individual

chains close networks. The individual "leaves" of a chain consists to the majority of a chalky skeleton,that is visible if the algae dies.





16. Magnificent Anemone ( Heteractis magnifica )

Clade: Cnidaria Depth: -1 to –30 m. Distribution : Red Sea to Polynesia and South Africa

Environment : deep lagoons, exposed coral reefs


Notes : The Magnificient Anemone can be found is in many different color morphs, from brown over yellow to violet. It settles mainly in deep lagoons and exposed outer

reefs. When disturbed it forms a compact sphere, and stores their tentacles inside. The anemone is a host for the clown anemonefish (NEMO!),

as well as for shrimps and porcelain crabs.






17. Birds Nest Coral ( Seriatopora hystrix )

Clade: Cnidaria Depth: -0,3 to –30 m. Distribution : Red Sea to Polynesia

Environment : tidal zones of protected reefs, protected reef slopes, lagoons


Notes : The Birds Nest Coral belongs to the Stone corals, which are the predominant reef constructing animals. It settles particularly in the tidal zone of protected

reef roofs and lagoons. The colouring can reach bright beige of up to pink. It is a thin branched colony where polyps are often arranged in rows. There are to

find however also forms with completely unordered polyp arrangement.





18. Colony Siphon Sponge ( Siphonochalina siphonella )

Clade: Porifera (sponges) Depth: -2 to –35 m. Distribution : Red Sea

Environment : protected reef slopes, lagoons


Notes : The Colony Siphon Sponge belongs to the clade of sponges (porifera) which

already for 500 million years exist on earth. These sessile (caked-on) animals are riddled with a duct system, which makes the closely related Euspongia to be used as a bath sponge. The animals can circulate up to twentyfold of the

own body weight of water on one day and have thereby an important function as water filters in the ecological system of the reef.





19. Yellow Scroll Coral ( Turbinaria reniformis )

Clade: Cnidaria Depth: varied Distribution : Red Sea to Polynesia

Environment : reef slopes, in moderate currents


Notes : The colonies are massive, columnar, laminar or foliae frequently contorted.

The yellowish green colonies settle on little exposed slopes with moderate current. As a result of their robustness, they can

be kept in aquaria without too much problems.





20. Pulsing Xenia ( Xenia umbellata )

Clade: Cnidaria Depth: -3 to –15 m. Distribution : Red Sea to West Pacific

Environment : lagoons and bays, protected slopes, on hard ground


Notes : The pumping Xenia lives in flow kinds parts reef up to a depth of 20m. The

polyps with its 5 cm long branches implement during the day constantly synchron pumping movements, which serve the respiration and food

intake. However they nourish themselves to a majority by photosynthesis of the incorporated zooxanthels.





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