It is possible that the animation could be developed to be an exact representation of the original drawing from the Waddington archive, however that was not the initial intent as we wanted to make something more abstract/artistic. Here is another post where you can read about our work. http://towardsdolly.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/c-h-waddington-inspiring-new-creations/

Thanks for sending on your paper, it is very interesting in terms of the science and I will show it to the systems biologists when we have a meeting in Amsterdam in January. Please keep in touch and we welcome your comments from the scientific point of view. Where is your research based?

I found one nice animation on epigenetic landscape http://vimeo.com/51814285. Maybe that is from your coordinator?

As a biologist, I would highly recommend you to know that the epigenetic landscape is used by us to understand the development. It is a pity that the animation didn’t show such information.

Epigenetic landscape originated from C. H. Waddington is a metaphor for development:
a ball (representing the stem cell) from the hilltop will automatically rolls down the valley and bifurcate into different pathways when it confronts a watershed. Nowadays this metaphor received a renaissance in biology in understanding the differentiation process.
It also implies the difficulty of reprogramming (for example, this year’s Nobel prize work in reprogramming fibroblast cell into stem cell) and potential availability of trans-differetiation (for example, the conversion between fibroblast cell into neuron cells).

If you could have an animation demonstrating such ideas, your work will be great lauded by more audience, especially the biologist.

I actually published a paper on epigenetic landscape: you can found here if you are interested in http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0049271.

Hope those words help.

Hope that helps.