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Beautiful microscopic photos become art
From one of the weblogs at The New York Times:
Showcase: In Microscopic Realm, Science Reveals Art
One of the photos is from my area of work, a pattern formed by shrinkage of photoresist, used in making integrated circuits. There were many beautiful patterns I saw in microscopes during my time doing research and development. There are times I miss those hours of looking through microscope objectives or staring at the CRT of a secondary electron microscope.
There is beauty everywhere, but we must choose to see it, to recognize it.
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6 Responses to “Beautiful microscopic photos become art”
True true…I've seen some of the most amazing laser microscope images in the biology area.
Gorgeous, gorgeous. Did nature evolve to please us, or did we evolve to be pleased by nature?
I'd say that we evolved to be pleased by nature. Granted, not all things that we see as pleasing are a direct result of evolution, but more that those things just happen to be similar to things that were advantagous to us during evolution.
Nature is just so amazing at every level, and the ability of humans to express beauty through art also wonderful. One of my favorites, for showing the sheer massive scale of everything is the power of ten:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/science…
Thanks. Those were wonderful to look at.
Beautiful!