Generation I Tables I – IV
The Damaged Leaf Dataset (DLD) is a collection of over 15,000 leaves collected in Colchester, Vermont, during the Lymnatria dispar (spongy moth) outbreaks of 2021 and 2022. The dataset is the foundational material of Phytomechatronics. Each collected leaf of the DLD was cleaned, pressed, and photographed by Jenn Karson and the Plant Machine Design Group.
The Tables below show the first generation of leaves that fell from the trees. Ravenous caterpillars ate these leaves, activating their abstract forms that have been said to look like mythical creatures, beasts, and continents of far away lands.
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