Diatom Art

Diatom: a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division.

diatom art
Flickr Artist: Trazy
The photographer has entered this photo in the 2008 Nikon Small World Contest.

The photographer has this to say about this image,

"This is a prepared slide that I found in an old dusty box. The slide is dated April 5, 1897 and contains exactly nine diatoms of three different types, meticulously arranged into an ornate pattern. The botanist that prepared this slide near the turn of the century was F.F. Forbes. The label on the slide reads "Diatoms in center from Hammonds Pond Brookline, Mass. Navicula peripunctata"."

2008 Yunnan Revisit

Rice farming in China presented here as art. Excellent capture.


2008 Yunnan Revisit
Flickr Artist: peace-on-earth.org

Fractal Friday

SciArt covers many forms of expression but a favorite of many of us is the fractal. Here is an excellent example of fractal art. I would like to thank him for allowing the use of the "blog this" function of flickr.

Flickr Artist: cammi_angel_2004
cammi_angel_2004, the artist, says this about his art,

"I currently have a major obsession with Apophysis, a fractal-making program. Apophysis is a mathematical computer program that crunches numbers based on formulas built-into the program, and some that the user can create, to generate branching patterns of color. The program is free to download and use from this address: www.apophysis.org/"

Sci-Art Guess of the Week

Here is a beautiful example of a photo that blends art and science. Can you guess what this object might be? When you figure it out or give up all you have to do is click on the image and your curiosity will be quenched.


David Hirmes
(c) 2005

Great news, as with most great art there is an artist that needs to eat. You can purchase this limited edition image or any of the other fine photos on his site.

Tell me is the Guess of the Week a feature you would like to see continued?