Beautiful science illustrations of scale by design duo Brainstorm, a fine addition to these essential visualizations of the scale of the universe.
if you don’t stop and look beyond your own world once in a while, you’ll never get an appreciation for the real scale of things.
Artist Angela Palmer’s stunning layered MRI self-portraits engraved in glass.
Name your price, Angela. What will it take to get my brain, on glass, on my wall?
Albert Einstein, one of artist Noma Bar’s brilliant minimalist portraits of cultural icons
Relativity amazing.
The Mona Lisa as a data plot by artist Oliver Munday.
I guess today is turning into art+science Tuesday, eh? Love this one!
This gives a whole new meaning to “I’d like to model for your next painting”.
Brian Dettmer’s surgical book sculptures, meticulously carved into vintage volumes and hand-cut one page at a time.
This is simply one of the greatest creations, repurposed or not, that I have ever seen. I can not fathom how long this would take. Bravo.
Embroidery layered on top of medical X-rays – haunting work by Philadelphia-based artist Matthew Cox
Remarkable 3D drawing machine by artists and Ryan and Trevor Oakes, using a technique that splits the ocular system to create images that match the field of view of human vision (via)
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