[merraksh]

I wonder if this was submitted after reading today's submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12047234) about (real) Portia spiders and googling the subject.

[unsettledtck]

We did indeed model our Portia on the real spiders. We'd like to think our version is a wee bit cuter...

[david-given]

After finding this picture of a real Portia, I have to disagree.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6096/6306406141_3b237e21ee_b.j...

Look at those big, soulful black eyes...

[jsargiox]

I didn't know there was a real "portia" spider... the things you learn everyday

[pavel_lishin]

I wonder if that submission was in any way related to Peter Watts' novel "Echopraxia"...