Week 8 Post
The first thing that I was reminded of when watching the lecture videos, especially the parts about tunneling photography, was an Instagram artist I have been following for quite awhile called @In_Visible_World. They describe themselves as a "macro-ultra-macro-microscopist" and make videos where they stitch together high quality images from vastly different scales to create a smooth zoom into an object. I can't include a video so I am providing a screenshot but I highly recommend following the link and checking out the account. This video goes from a high quality camera shot all the way to an electron microscope image of the charcoal tip. Screenshot of charcoal pencil video by @in_visible_world. (1) My art has always included butterflies, so when I saw that there were nanotech applications of the structures in butterfly wings I wanted to learn more. It turns out there are a ton of applications, from adding carbon nanotubes to a wing surface to make a structure that ge...