Uncovered burl

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Growth anomaly on the trunk of a standing dead tree or snag. This bulbuous protusion is known as a burl, and is usually a sign of trauma induced to the tree by either bacteria, insects, fungi, injury, genetic predisposition, or even environmental stress. It’s caraterized by a deformation of the wood grain in the form of a round outgrowth filled with knots from dormant buds.

Interestingly, this particular bump is no longer covered by the stem’s bark, revealing the actual structure of the wood, otherwise invisible.

Based on an August 2020 photogrammetric dataset, shot around Oxfordshire at dawn. Watertight quad retopo mesh at 13k vertices, down from around 700k. Uses 4k PBR maps.