The Master Of The Art Of Diatom Arrangement

[n2doc]

http://vimeo.com/90160649
"The Diatomist" is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells around themselves. Microscopists of the Victorian era would arrange them into complex patterns, invisible to the naked eye but spectacular when viewed under magnification.

[MisterP]

1. they also have micro-art at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

http://adamspictureblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-museum-of-jurassic-technology.html
http://www.ephonium.com/greetingsfromla/?p=1849
http://justsixlegs.blogspot.com/2011/09/butterfly-scale-micro-mosaics-at-mjt.html
http://dangermode.blogspot.com/2012/04/field-trip-musueum-of-jurassic.html

[LongTomH]

2. Then there's Nano-Art, with individual atoms!

Way back in 1990, a scientist at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, used one of the company's new scanning-tunneling microscopes (STM) to move individual atoms around on a metal crystal to spell out the company's acronym using xenon atoms:



Other researchers and artists have used STM's to create works of art with individual atoms, like the carbon monoxide man, using carbon monoxide molecules on platinum:



Another image was the Kanji character for 'atom,' spelled out with iron atoms on a copper crystal:



Or, the Corral Reef (AKA Quantum Corral), using iron atoms on copper