SCI-ART LAB
Techniques and technologies involved in science-art interactions
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The process involved in creating mini Mona Lisa that has scientifc implications!
The world's most famous painting has now been created on the world's smallest canvas. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have "painted" the Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width -- or one-third the width of a human hair. The team's creation, the "Mini…
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Making “Frozen Lightning” Art with Accelerators
Physicist Todd Johnson has been working at Fermilab for 30 years, but he also dabbles in art. He’s all about capturing lightning-like fractal patterns in plastic cubes with the help of a linear accelerator. He doesn’t do this at Fermilab, but at a commercial polymer cross-linking facility in Ohio .…
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Creating flowers in a lab using chemicals
Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a Harvard laboratory -- and not at the scale of inches, but microns.These minuscule sculptures, curved and delicate, don't resemble…
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Bacteriography - Microbial art technique
Different type of Microbial art:The work of microbiologist-cum-photographer Zachary Copfer, who has turned a traditional artistic practice into a laudable technique weaving art and science into one. He calls it "bacteriography", which involves controlling bacteria growth to form desired…
