This is a picture of a human fetus at 20 weeks' gestational age (i.e. 18 weeks after fertilization). A color version of this image is available at Wikimedia here.
The company behind 3DPregnancy.com is Tribal Internet Projects, a
Dutch-based publisher of family websites. 3Dpregnancy.com was launched in 2007.[1]archive copy at the Wayback Machine
This particular picture was drawn by Melchior Meijer who is a 3D artist. He and 3Dpregnancy.com used various resources to produce the illustration, including books, DVD's and websites to verify how a fetus looks at this stage of development. Some of the resources relied upon were as follows:
When comparing this image to other images, it should be kept in mind that this stage of development is often referenced using different numerical descriptions. This is an approximate drawing of a fetus 18 weeks after fertilization, i.e. at the beginning of the 19th week after fertilization. This is equivalent to a gestational age of about 20 weeks, i.e. at the beginning of the 21st week of gestational age. This drawing can be compared to other online images of a fetus at approximately the same stage of development, including the following images:
The owners of this image donated it to Wikimedia. The original version that the owners donated had a watermark which has subsequently been removed according to Wikimedia policy. See here. The present image (without watermark) was donated by
Wouter Vergeer <wouter.vergeer@tribal.nl> on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 on behalf of 3DPregnancy.com. Mr. Vergeer stated in an email to Ferrylodge on that date:
“
For now we are only willing to share these four 3D pictures under the CC-SY-BA license. Lets first see how this goes before we decide to share more or, perhaps in the future, all our works....I noticed you changed the picture and removed the CC-SY-BA notification. Which is fine by us. We just added them to make sure everybody saw they were released under CC-SY-BA license and nobody would delete them. We did notice, however that the quality of the images has decreased
quite a lot due to the cropping. I enclosed new versions of the images at better quality with this email. Would you be so kind to upload these? Or should we do this? The company behind 3DPregnancy.com is Tribal Internet Projects. We are Dutch based publisher of family websites. We are working on a corporate website containing more company information. If you have any more questions, please let me know. And thank you for your involvement. With kind regards / Met vriendelijke groet,
Wouter Vergeer
Managing Director
Tribal Internet Projects BV
Larenweg 24
5234 KA 's-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
Toll Free form U.S. and Canada: 1-888-766-5577
Tel.: +31 (0)73 6158113 (NEW NUMBER)
Fax.: +31 (0)73 6124756
Internet: www.tribal.nl
E-mail: wouter.vergeer@tribal.nl
”
This image is now licensed under a "free" license.
This image was converted to black and white, in response to some objections here. The staff of 3D Pregnancy was notified, and provided the following reply (at Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:55:23):
“
Thank you for notifying me. The black and white version as currently online, are fine! Thnx for the change. With kind regards, Wouter.
”
Original Upload Log at Wikipedia
11:59, 28 August 2007 3dpregnancy (Talk | contribs) 120×120 10 KB Fetus at 20 weeks pregnant. (Fetus is 18 weeks old)
This image has already been uploaded to Wikipedia, and it was recommended to upload it instead to Wikimedia Commons.
{{cc-by-sa-2.5,2.0,1.0}} This image has already been uploaded to Wikipedia, and it was recommended to upload it instead to Wikimedia Commons. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:6_weeks_pregnant.jpg This is a picture of a human fetus at 20 we