Brilliant science art after watercolors and ferrofluids mix
Blending science and art photography, Fabian Oefner has made some purely incredible sights. Inspired by ferrofluid sculptures, made popular on YouTube some time ago, Fabian decided to try a run of his own, however after experimenting with watercolors as well, he noticed that some incredibly beautiful brain-like patterns appeared.
Using high-resolution cameras, these patterns turn gorgeous as the view magnifies. Oefner decided to turn his experiments into a project, which he dubbed Millefiori - a name that describes a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware, generally used for pendants. There’s a core difference between the two however, since ferrofluids are liquid in state, and thus are described by a dynamic flux, while glass is plain static.
Ferrofluids are liquids that become magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field. These are made up of extremely tiny, nanoscale ferromagnetic particles suspended in a carrier fluid or solvent, typically water. If the magnetic field is oscillated, then the magnetic lines through which the ferromagnetic particles are carried will alter. So, as you modulate the magnetic field, the shape and density of the ferrofluid as a whole will change, with interesting visual results. Add color and, well you just saw for yourself.
The samples he used are only the size of a thumbnail, however using high-resolution cameras, a colorful psychedelic delight ensues.
Millefiori Ferrofluid mixed with water colors
The shapes, you see in these image are about the size of a thumbnail. They are created by mixing ferrofluid with water color and putting it into a magnetic field. Ferrofluid is a magnetic solution with a viscosity similar to motor oil. When put under a magnetic field, the iron particles in the solution start to rearrange, forming the black channels and separating the water colors from the ferrofluid. The result are these peculiar looking structures.
What you see in the first few seconds is the ferrofluid resting above the magnet. Thats why you see those spikes, which are caused by the attraction and repeal of the magnetic particles inside the liquid. Then, different tones of water colour are injected into it with the aid of a syringe. The ferrofluid starts to form channels around the colours, creating these brain-like structures.
The existence of ferrofluid is today’s new thing for me – a magnetic solution with a similar viscosity to motor oil. This doesn’t sound that interesting, but when watercolours are added to this unusual substance and placed into a magnetic field the reaction is beautiful.
Captured by Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner in his project Millefiori, the iron particles start to rearrange, forming black channels and separating the watercolours from the ferrofluid, creating these technicolour structures that look like psychedelic planets or trippy cells under a microscope. This is just one project out of many of Fabian’s that colourfully and dramatically encapsulate split-second reactions to give them this feeling of importance and preciousness. Here to tell us more about why he’s drawn to these kinds of projects is Fabian himself…
ferrofluids to create amazing looking sculptures. So I decided to start experimenting with this peculiar liquid and eventually found out, that mixing it with watercolours creates these strange brain-like structures.
Imagine a fabric that grows...a garment that forms itself without a single stitch!
The fashion that starts with a bottle of wine...
Micro'be' fermented fashion investigates the practical and cultural biosynthesis of clothing - to explore the possible forms and cultural implications of futuristic dress-making and textile technologies.
Instead of lifeless weaving machines producing the textile, living microbes will ferment a garment.
A fermented garment will not only rupture the meaning of traditional interactions with body and clothing; but also raise questions around the contentious nature of the living materials themselves.
This project redefines the production of woven materials.
By combining art and science knowledge and with a little inventiveness, the ultimate goal will be to produce a bacterial fermented seamless garment that forms without a single stitch.
John Pomara, professor of visual arts in the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas, Dallas, USA, produces art that is unique to the digital age. His technique involves an artistic approach fusing art, science and technology – a style that has developed over time. He uses a copy machine. For months, Pomara photocopied paint drips patterned to resemble microbiology photographs of cell structures.
He collected dozens of biology books, anything that had any kind of microphotography or DNA gene scan. He wanted to make these images into 6-foot hand-painted images – he wanted to make 6-foot photocopies.
Pomara’s artwork currently involves making computer stencils of magnified digital images, which he then paints by hand, pulling industrial enamel across aluminum surfaces. The finished paintings look like an electronic screen, with a cool reflective surface, blurred as if the forms are moving rapidly or hovering like a photographic ghost.
The work is a visual dialogue about the intimacy of touch and how it’s evolving in an ever-increasingly faster world of electronic imaging. He is just a new media artist who keeps on painting.
In some of his most recent work, Pomara manipulates technology to produce art. He calls it “capturing glitches” and he learned this new medium quite serendipitously. In a design class, a printer malfunctioned on one of the professor’s students. Instead of throwing the print away, Pomara scanned the image back into the computer and started working with it.
He magnified, distorted and remade the glitch. And he realized he could even glitch the images himself, intentionally.
Jimmy O' Neil uses reflective paint, so that viewers become part of the paintings as they stand before it.
“It changes depending on who’s standing there and how the light is changing,” he said. “It’s always a different piece, every minute.”
In theory, he says, “I’m painting with lenses.”
As soon as the acrylic paint goes on the canvas, “It’s a lens to yourself.”
O’Neal, an Asheville artist whose abstract paintings are on display in a pop-up exhibition in the former Associated Artists building at 301 W. Fourth St. through Dec. 16, is a classically trained painter who received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
About 12 or 15 years ago, he began to look for new ways to capture life in his paintings.
What he set out to do was to find a way to create a mark in layers of mirrored paint that would correlate to a real-life event.
His solution was pretty high tech.
Jimmy O’Neal, developed a machine that essentially painted brain waves. While his subject was watching something or doing something, he would monitor their brain waves and the machine would use those patterns to guide his paint brush.
The brush would carve a path through the layers of acrylic paint, making a permanent record of the event.
He has done similar work with eye-tracking glasses.
Tonya Deem of Winston-Salem owns a painting that was created using the eye-tracking glasses. Her family commissioned it for her in secret. A pie fight between two boys was used to do this.
While they watched each other throw pies, the glasses tracked their eye movements and O’Neal used those patterns to create the painting — creating what O’Neal called “a mirror of their experience.”
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2013/apr/11/microscope-allows-moorpark-p... Artistic Touch: Microscope allows Moorpark photographer to combine her love of art and science
Using a camera and a microscope, Carol Roullard combines her love of art and science by creating stunning abstract images.
It was through their membership in the Microscope Society of Southern California that her current style evolved. At one meeting, the president, Jim Solliday, gave a presentation on crystals growing under the microscope.
One night Solliday and his wife came for dinner and brought vials of various substances to put under the microscope. They melted the materials and put them on slides.
“That was definitely the beginning of this,” she said.
Using a high powered microscope with a sony A77 camera mounted on top, Roullard liquefies powdered vanilla, hydroquinone or other material, puts it on a slide and looks at it through polarized light.
“The chemicals will react with the polarized light — not all chemicals will do that,” she said. After finding the best image, she takes the photo with a remote shutter release.
“It’s almost always something that takes your breath away,” she said. “If I start liking something, the arrangement, the flow, the way things intersect, she plays with the filter.” She fiddles with an image for a while before deciding it won’t work.
She manipulates the photo on the computer, using Aperture and Photoshop.
(View the Artistic touch Carol Roullard slide show.)
When it’s the way she wants it, she has it printed on aluminum. Different finishes allow more or less of the metal to show through, giving different effects and changes throughout the day, depending on how the light hits it.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/dna-art/ The entire process goes something like this: DNA11 sends you a swab kit that you use to transfer cheek cells to a collection card, which you then send back to the company. DNA11 begins processing the sample with 8 different makers, which insures unique canvas art for each customer. After amplifying the unique DNA bands (so there’s enough DNA to visualize), separating them according to size using an electric field (so the molecules don’t lump together), and staining them with UV dye (to highlight the DNA that’s there), the company takes a digital image and prints the DNA profile on a canvas.
At first blush, results just looked like short horizontal bars lined with infrared coloring, stretched across a slab of canvas. But , the deeper meaning was realizing that if one reassembled the eight bands before one, one would end up with, well, one. Not in the literal sense, but more to the point that no other combination would produce the same result. And that originality became the talking point among those who saw any DNA portrait.
“It’s the first genetics lab in the world dedicated 100 percent to crossing art and genomics.”
https://plus.google.com/u/0/113502366027518587561/posts/aKPvvEzuECU... I modeled an ant (Lasius niger). I started out in Blender for the base of the model. Then turned to Zbrush for detailed sculpting and painting. UV mapped it and made the texture and normal map in ZBrush. Then back to Blender. Added hairs and subsurface scattering. Rendered it and then through compositing to get the colors right.
The package said that the contents of the kit are used make photographic type prints using sun and water. There were also simple directions on the back that we followed today. The package came with blue, Sunprint ™ paper and a small piece of cardboard. How you can do it:
1. Select an item. We pulled some things together including puzzle pieces and leaves. We started our experiment with a key.
2. Place the blue paper onto the cardboard and then place the object onto the blue paper. (Ideally, your object should be placed on the paper indoors due to the paper's light sensitivity. However, we did ours quickly in the shade and it worked out fine.)
3. Place it in the sun.
4. Expose to the sunlight for about 1-5 minutes, until the paper turns almost all white.
5. Quickly rinse the paper with water for about 1 minute and dry flat.
the sunlight stimulates a chemical change in the paper while the water stimulates yet another chemical change.
The water causes an oxidation reaction that turns the colorless compound into the deep blue of a finished Sunprint™. For more in depth information and pictures. Read more here: http://www.sunprints.org/
http://www.livescience.com/37990-3d-printed-paintings-created.html Stroke of Genius: Artist Dazzles with 3D-Printed Paintings 3D printing is turning up in all sorts of places these days, and recently, it's been gaining traction in the art world, with one artist using the printers to create giant paintings with loads of texture. Florea first uses 3D printing to build prototypes for the larger shapes in his paintings. To create the scaled-up versions of these 3D shapes, which are enlarged 20 to 30 times, he cures the resins using heat (by contrast, 3D printing often involves curing resins using ultraviolet light - http://www.technewsdaily.com/5222-delta-robot-uv-laser-3d-printer.html ). The resin and pigment are like the paint, and all the shapes are embedded in it. Then, he uses transfer techniques to attach the shapes to a canvas.
The artist has also developed a quick-dry oil paint which he claims is one of the best in the world. According to Florea artist's used to develop their own paints during the Renaissance, but during the industrial revolution the focus turned to paint for machinery such as cars. He integrates and explores different new pigments and lightweight materials and he gets inspired from the world of nanotechnology. He developed my own custom 3D image fused resin andpigment transfer of his shapes on canvas and he also uses liquid metal paint that he formulates. Hispaintings have double function addressing both the visual and tactile senses," according to him.
Stained fish skeletons are currently on display at the Seattle Aquarium. The fish were prepared and photographed by Adam P. Summers, a biology professor at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Labs who also holds a research associate position at UC Berkeley. He uses the images for his research in biomechanics, a field that blends physics and biology.
To visualize a fish by clearing and staining, the body must first be fixed in formalin, then dehydrated in alcohol. The scientist-cum-artist then alternately stains the parts he wants to see (blue for cartilage, red for bone) and clears the parts that get in the way (bleach takes care of pigments, enzymes digest everything else). The result is a 3D view of the skeleton as it naturally fits together inside the body. Stunning Fish Skeletons Serve Science and Art http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/01/07/stunning-fish-skeletons-se... The scientists used a variety of imaging techniques.
This Portrait of Stephen Fry Was Made From His Own Bacteria the portrait is "made from the subjects' own cells – and have been grown by Zachary Copfer, an American microbiologist and photographer."
To make the Pop Art style images, Zachary cleverly exposes areas of a petri dish to radiation in order to stimulate the bacteria's growth. This creates a photograph grown entirely from the bacteria itself. Zachary is the only person in the world practicing this art, which he terms "Bacteriography". This is the first time his work has been brought to the UK.
Ferrofluid is a liquid made out of tiny particles of magnetite, hematite or some other compound containing iron suspended in an oil-based substance. It was invented in 1963 by Steve Papel, a scientist at NASA who was trying to develop a liquid fuel that could be drawn towards a pump in a weightless environment using a magnetic field.
When ferrofluids are exposed to a magnet, they seem to come alive. Photographer Fabian Oefner, who loves to combine art and science, decided to take advantage of this effect and added watercolours (or aquarelles) to ferrofluid. The outcome is fascinating.
“If watercolours are added to the ferrofluid, the pop-art looking structures start to appear, forming black channels and tiny ponds filled with rainbow-coloured surfaces. The reason why the black ferrofluid and the watercolours don’t mix is that ferrofluid is, just like oil, hydrophobic. It therefore doesn’t mix with the watercolours. At the same time it is held in position by the magnet underneath it. So it tries to find a way around the watercolours and therefore forms these black channels”. http://www.sciencealert.com.au/features/20143006-25782.html
New techniques in Origami: A technique called wet-folding: wiping the paper with a wet sponge or cloth before folding. The moisture loosens the paper fibers, allowing for smooth curves instead of the more traditional sharp creases. The curves are a lot softer and the creases actually stronger with wet-folding. Wet-folding allows for the voluptuous curves of a lion's shaggy mane or the billows surrounding a unicorn that appears to be standing in the wind, and also works of elegant simplicity.
Other pieces feature an improvisational technique using crumpled tissue paper. Known as "le crimp," it allows for a rich and detailed texture.
The figure of a deer whose neck gives way to gnarled tree branches instead of an antlered head is roughly textured and made from dark brown paper; the result is virtually indistinguishable from tree bark
In the show's science section, one wall features a work entitled "Oribotics (The Future Unfolds)," by Austrian artist Matthew Gardiner. The undulating robotic origami flowers open and close only when a viewer comes near. http://www.windsorstar.com/life/Origami+show+reveals+folded+paper+f...
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.zmescience.com/science/physics/ferrofluid-watercolor-art...
Brilliant science art after watercolors and ferrofluids mix
Blending science and art photography, Fabian Oefner has made some purely incredible sights. Inspired by ferrofluid sculptures, made popular on YouTube some time ago, Fabian decided to try a run of his own, however after experimenting with watercolors as well, he noticed that some incredibly beautiful brain-like patterns appeared.
Using high-resolution cameras, these patterns turn gorgeous as the view magnifies. Oefner decided to turn his experiments into a project, which he dubbed Millefiori - a name that describes a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware, generally used for pendants. There’s a core difference between the two however, since ferrofluids are liquid in state, and thus are described by a dynamic flux, while glass is plain static.
Ferrofluids are liquids that become magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field. These are made up of extremely tiny, nanoscale ferromagnetic particles suspended in a carrier fluid or solvent, typically water. If the magnetic field is oscillated, then the magnetic lines through which the ferromagnetic particles are carried will alter. So, as you modulate the magnetic field, the shape and density of the ferrofluid as a whole will change, with interesting visual results. Add color and, well you just saw for yourself.
The samples he used are only the size of a thumbnail, however using high-resolution cameras, a colorful psychedelic delight ensues.
Ferrofluid mixed with water colors
Ferrofluid is a magnetic solution with a viscosity similar to motor oil. When put under a magnetic field, the iron particles in the solution start to rearrange, forming the black channels and separating the water colors from the ferrofluid. The result are these peculiar looking structures.
Sep 27, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
The existence of ferrofluid is today’s new thing for me – a magnetic solution with a similar viscosity to motor oil. This doesn’t sound that interesting, but when watercolours are added to this unusual substance and placed into a magnetic field the reaction is beautiful.
Captured by Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner in his project Millefiori, the iron particles start to rearrange, forming black channels and separating the watercolours from the ferrofluid, creating these technicolour structures that look like psychedelic planets or trippy cells under a microscope. This is just one project out of many of Fabian’s that colourfully and dramatically encapsulate split-second reactions to give them this feeling of importance and preciousness. Here to tell us more about why he’s drawn to these kinds of projects is Fabian himself…
ferrofluids to create amazing looking sculptures. So I decided to start experimenting with this peculiar liquid and eventually found out, that mixing it with watercolours creates these strange brain-like structures.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/fabian-oefner
Sep 27, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/09/bacteriogoraphy/
Sep 27, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://bioalloy.org/o/projects/micro-be.html
Micro'be' Fermented Fashion
Fermented FashionDonna Franklin & Gary Cass
Imagine a fabric that grows...a garment that forms itself without a single stitch!
The fashion that starts with a bottle of wine...
Micro'be' fermented fashion investigates the practical and cultural biosynthesis of clothing - to explore the possible forms and cultural implications of futuristic dress-making and textile technologies.
Instead of lifeless weaving machines producing the textile, living microbes will ferment a garment.
A fermented garment will not only rupture the meaning of traditional interactions with body and clothing; but also raise questions around the contentious nature of the living materials themselves.
This project redefines the production of woven materials.
By combining art and science knowledge and with a little inventiveness, the ultimate goal will be to produce a bacterial fermented seamless garment that forms without a single stitch.
Sep 28, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/10/25-20341_Profs-Work-Examines-H...
John Pomara, professor of visual arts in the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas, Dallas, USA, produces art that is unique to the digital age. His technique involves an artistic approach fusing art, science and technology – a style that has developed over time. He uses a copy machine. For months, Pomara photocopied paint drips patterned to resemble microbiology photographs of cell structures.
He collected dozens of biology books, anything that had any kind of microphotography or DNA gene scan. He wanted to make these images into 6-foot hand-painted images – he wanted to make 6-foot photocopies.
Pomara’s artwork currently involves making computer stencils of magnified digital images, which he then paints by hand, pulling industrial enamel across aluminum surfaces. The finished paintings look like an electronic screen, with a cool reflective surface, blurred as if the forms are moving rapidly or hovering like a photographic ghost.
The work is a visual dialogue about the intimacy of touch and how it’s evolving in an ever-increasingly faster world of electronic imaging. He is just a new media artist who keeps on painting.
In some of his most recent work, Pomara manipulates technology to produce art. He calls it “capturing glitches” and he learned this new medium quite serendipitously. In a design class, a printer malfunctioned on one of the professor’s students. Instead of throwing the print away, Pomara scanned the image back into the computer and started working with it.
He magnified, distorted and remade the glitch. And he realized he could even glitch the images himself, intentionally.
Oct 26, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Colour in art: http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&srchtype=discussedNews&...
Oct 31, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Jimmy O' Neil uses reflective paint, so that viewers become part of the paintings as they stand before it.
“It changes depending on who’s standing there and how the light is changing,” he said. “It’s always a different piece, every minute.”
In theory, he says, “I’m painting with lenses.”
As soon as the acrylic paint goes on the canvas, “It’s a lens to yourself.”
O’Neal, an Asheville artist whose abstract paintings are on display in a pop-up exhibition in the former Associated Artists building at 301 W. Fourth St. through Dec. 16, is a classically trained painter who received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
About 12 or 15 years ago, he began to look for new ways to capture life in his paintings.
What he set out to do was to find a way to create a mark in layers of mirrored paint that would correlate to a real-life event.
His solution was pretty high tech.
Jimmy O’Neal, developed a machine that essentially painted brain waves. While his subject was watching something or doing something, he would monitor their brain waves and the machine would use those patterns to guide his paint brush.
The brush would carve a path through the layers of acrylic paint, making a permanent record of the event.
He has done similar work with eye-tracking glasses.
Tonya Deem of Winston-Salem owns a painting that was created using the eye-tracking glasses. Her family commissioned it for her in secret. A pie fight between two boys was used to do this.
While they watched each other throw pies, the glasses tracked their eye movements and O’Neal used those patterns to create the painting — creating what O’Neal called “a mirror of their experience.”
Source:
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_cfdd9f4e-3b54-11e2-af9...
Dec 2, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2013/apr/11/microscope-allows-moorpark-p...
Artistic Touch: Microscope allows Moorpark photographer to combine her love of art and science
Using a camera and a microscope, Carol Roullard combines her love of art and science by creating stunning abstract images.
It was through their membership in the Microscope Society of Southern California that her current style evolved. At one meeting, the president, Jim Solliday, gave a presentation on crystals growing under the microscope.
One night Solliday and his wife came for dinner and brought vials of various substances to put under the microscope. They melted the materials and put them on slides.
“That was definitely the beginning of this,” she said.
Using a high powered microscope with a sony A77 camera mounted on top, Roullard liquefies powdered vanilla, hydroquinone or other material, puts it on a slide and looks at it through polarized light.
“The chemicals will react with the polarized light — not all chemicals will do that,” she said. After finding the best image, she takes the photo with a remote shutter release.
“It’s almost always something that takes your breath away,” she said. “If I start liking something, the arrangement, the flow, the way things intersect, she plays with the filter.” She fiddles with an image for a while before deciding it won’t work.
She manipulates the photo on the computer, using Aperture and Photoshop.
(View the Artistic touch Carol Roullard slide show.)
When it’s the way she wants it, she has it printed on aluminum. Different finishes allow more or less of the metal to show through, giving different effects and changes throughout the day, depending on how the light hits it.
“It must’ve been a Kodak moment,” she said.
Roullard’s work can be seen on her website: http://www.Vistafocus.net.
Apr 14, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Apr 18, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Have Your Genome Made Into a Piece of Art here: http://labs.dna11.com/
Source of this tech:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/dna-art/
The entire process goes something like this: DNA11 sends you a swab kit that you use to transfer cheek cells to a collection card, which you then send back to the company. DNA11 begins processing the sample with 8 different makers, which insures unique canvas art for each customer. After amplifying the unique DNA bands (so there’s enough DNA to visualize), separating them according to size using an electric field (so the molecules don’t lump together), and staining them with UV dye (to highlight the DNA that’s there), the company takes a digital image and prints the DNA profile on a canvas.
At first blush, results just looked like short horizontal bars lined with infrared coloring, stretched across a slab of canvas. But , the deeper meaning was realizing that if one reassembled the eight bands before one, one would end up with, well, one. Not in the literal sense, but more to the point that no other combination would produce the same result. And that originality became the talking point among those who saw any DNA portrait.
“It’s the first genetics lab in the world dedicated 100 percent to crossing art and genomics.”
Apr 22, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
https://plus.google.com/u/0/113502366027518587561/posts/aKPvvEzuECU...
I modeled an ant (Lasius niger). I started out in Blender for the base of the model. Then turned to Zbrush for detailed sculpting and painting. UV mapped it and made the texture and normal map in ZBrush. Then back to Blender. Added hairs and subsurface scattering. Rendered it and then through compositing to get the colors right.
May 30, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.chicagonow.com/new-abides/2013/06/sun-printing-photos-fi...
Sun printing photos in five easy steps: art and science combined
Sunprint Kit ™ Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkley.
The package said that the contents of the kit are used make photographic type prints using sun and water. There were also simple directions on the back that we followed today. The package came with blue, Sunprint ™ paper and a small piece of cardboard.
How you can do it:
1. Select an item. We pulled some things together including puzzle pieces and leaves. We started our experiment with a key.
2. Place the blue paper onto the cardboard and then place the object onto the blue paper. (Ideally, your object should be placed on the paper indoors due to the paper's light sensitivity. However, we did ours quickly in the shade and it worked out fine.)
3. Place it in the sun.
4. Expose to the sunlight for about 1-5 minutes, until the paper turns almost all white.
5. Quickly rinse the paper with water for about 1 minute and dry flat.
the sunlight stimulates a chemical change in the paper while the water stimulates yet another chemical change.
The water causes an oxidation reaction that turns the colorless compound into the deep blue of a finished Sunprint™. For more in depth information and pictures.
Read more here: http://www.sunprints.org/
Jun 15, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.livescience.com/37990-3d-printed-paintings-created.html
Stroke of Genius: Artist Dazzles with 3D-Printed Paintings
3D printing is turning up in all sorts of places these days, and recently, it's been gaining traction in the art world, with one artist using the printers to create giant paintings with loads of texture.
Florea first uses 3D printing to build prototypes for the larger shapes in his paintings. To create the scaled-up versions of these 3D shapes, which are enlarged 20 to 30 times, he cures the resins using heat (by contrast, 3D printing often involves curing resins using ultraviolet light - http://www.technewsdaily.com/5222-delta-robot-uv-laser-3d-printer.html ). The resin and pigment are like the paint, and all the shapes are embedded in it. Then, he uses transfer techniques to attach the shapes to a canvas.
The artist has also developed a quick-dry oil paint which he claims is one of the best in the world. According to Florea artist's used to develop their own paints during the Renaissance, but during the industrial revolution the focus turned to paint for machinery such as cars. He integrates and explores different new pigments and lightweight materials and he gets inspired from the world of nanotechnology. He developed my own custom 3D image fused resin and pigment transfer of his shapes on canvas and he also uses liquid metal paint that he formulates. His paintings have double function addressing both the visual and tactile senses," according to him.
http://www.hngn.com/articles/7083/20130706/artist-uses-3d-printer-c...
Jul 8, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.diysect.com/
http://www.diysect.com/blog/
Jul 14, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Bio-art: How to extract DNA from peas
Jul 21, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Bio-art: Inserting GFP into bacteria
Jul 21, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Stained fish skeletons are currently on display at the Seattle Aquarium. The fish were prepared and photographed by Adam P. Summers, a biology professor at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Labs who also holds a research associate position at UC Berkeley. He uses the images for his research in biomechanics, a field that blends physics and biology.
To visualize a fish by clearing and staining, the body must first be fixed in formalin, then dehydrated in alcohol. The scientist-cum-artist then alternately stains the parts he wants to see (blue for cartilage, red for bone) and clears the parts that get in the way (bleach takes care of pigments, enzymes digest everything else). The result is a 3D view of the skeleton as it naturally fits together inside the body.
Stunning Fish Skeletons Serve Science and Art
http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/01/07/stunning-fish-skeletons-se...
The scientists used a variety of imaging techniques.
http://www.picturingscience.com/
Jan 9, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
This Portrait of Stephen Fry Was Made From His Own Bacteria
the portrait is "made from the subjects' own cells – and have been grown by Zachary Copfer, an American microbiologist and photographer."
To make the Pop Art style images, Zachary cleverly exposes areas of a petri dish to radiation in order to stimulate the bacteria's growth. This creates a photograph grown entirely from the bacteria itself. Zachary is the only person in the world practicing this art, which he terms "Bacteriography". This is the first time his work has been brought to the UK.
http://jezebel.com/this-portrait-of-stephen-fry-was-made-from-his-o...
Feb 12, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Mar 26, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Jun 9, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Jun 26, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Ferrofluid is a liquid made out of tiny particles of magnetite, hematite or some other compound containing iron suspended in an oil-based substance. It was invented in 1963 by Steve Papel, a scientist at NASA who was trying to develop a liquid fuel that could be drawn towards a pump in a weightless environment using a magnetic field.When ferrofluids are exposed to a magnet, they seem to come alive. Photographer Fabian Oefner, who loves to combine art and science, decided to take advantage of this effect and added watercolours (or aquarelles) to ferrofluid. The outcome is fascinating.
“If watercolours are added to the ferrofluid, the pop-art looking structures start to appear, forming black channels and tiny ponds filled with rainbow-coloured surfaces. The reason why the black ferrofluid and the watercolours don’t mix is that ferrofluid is, just like oil, hydrophobic. It therefore doesn’t mix with the watercolours. At the same time it is held in position by the magnet underneath it. So it tries to find a way around the watercolours and therefore forms these black channels”.
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/features/20143006-25782.html
Jul 2, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
New techniques in Origami: A technique called wet-folding: wiping the paper with a wet sponge or cloth before folding. The moisture loosens the paper fibers, allowing for smooth curves instead of the more traditional sharp creases. The curves are a lot softer and the creases actually stronger with wet-folding.
Wet-folding allows for the voluptuous curves of a lion's shaggy mane or the billows surrounding a unicorn that appears to be standing in the wind, and also works of elegant simplicity.
Other pieces feature an improvisational technique using crumpled tissue paper. Known as "le crimp," it allows for a rich and detailed texture.
The figure of a deer whose neck gives way to gnarled tree branches instead of an antlered head is roughly textured and made from dark brown paper; the result is virtually indistinguishable from tree bark
In the show's science section, one wall features a work entitled "Oribotics (The Future Unfolds)," by Austrian artist Matthew Gardiner. The undulating robotic origami flowers open and close only when a viewer comes near.
http://www.windsorstar.com/life/Origami+show+reveals+folded+paper+f...
Jul 3, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Painting without brushes- just using chemical reactions in a lab to 'create' art works
http://www.teachertube.com/video/chemical-reaction-splash-369357
Jan 29, 2015