The three books in The Wind-up Bird Chronicle are named after a Rossini overture, a piano piece by Schumann and a character in Mozart's Magic Flute respectively.
Using these shapes, the team arranged the two "shoals" so that they had the same overall surface area and luminance even though they contained a different number of objects.
This could mean a return to smaller fields, with crops planted in grids rather than rows and fruit trees pruned into two-dimensional shapes to make harvesting easier.
Now there's a third way that octopus can transform themselves to blend in with or mimic their environment, and that's by changing their shape and size, at least their apparent size.