Image credits
The Wombat Cube Factory
These credits describe how our visuals were made. Research credit belongs to the authors of the papers linked below. The papers support the explanations; the generated wombat is an illustration. No paper figures or stock photographs were copied into these images.
Wombat illustration
Created for Data Source Atlas with OpenAI’s image-generation tool on 17 September 2026.
AI-generated illustration, not a photograph or scientific observation. The generation tool did not expose its exact model identifier. The original selected output is retained; the illustration prompt is in the creation notes.

First infographic draft
Data Source Atlas / Renaissance Solutions; layout, captions and schematic prepared with Codex assistance.
Exported from the editable web layout on 17 September 2026. Includes the credited AI-generated wombat illustration. Retained as the actual first draft; its missing diagram and smaller text are discussed in the walkthrough.

Revised infographic
Data Source Atlas / Renaissance Solutions; layout, captions and schematic prepared with Codex assistance.
Exported from the reviewed web layout on 17 September 2026. Includes the same credited wombat illustration. The explanatory diagram is an original schematic drawn in code, informed by the linked papers; it is not a reproduced research figure or a biological simulation.

Creation notes and illustration prompt
Evidence
- Intestines of non-uniform stiffness mold the corners of wombat feces · Soft Matter 17 (2021), pp. 475–488; Figures 1–4; discussion pp. 482–483. · 10.1039/d0sm01230k
- Drying dynamics of pellet feces · Soft Matter 19 (2023), pp. 723–732; Figure 4; discussion and conclusion p. 729. · 10.1039/d2sm00359g