World's smallest movie, a stop-motion animation using individual atoms.

[arcane1]

Quite cool!!

Published on Apr 30, 2013

You're about to see the movie that holds the Guinness World Records™ record for the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film (see how it was made at

). The ability to move single atoms — the smallest particles of any element in the universe — is crucial to IBM's research in the field of atomic memory. But even nanophysicists need to have a little fun. In that spirit, IBM researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on top of each other), all in pursuit of making a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times. A movie made with atoms.

[hunter]

1. And I thought scratching animation effects on 8mm film was difficult...

[arcane1]

2. Ha! Used to do that as a kid, trying to create Star Wars laser effects

Ah, stop motion, those were the days. The animation would get more sloppy as the film went on and we got more impatient