The Beauty Of Microscopic Plant Seeds Vincent Van Gogh painted sunflowers, and Claude Monet painted irises. Rob Kesseler paints seeds, only he uses electrons to do so. Working with the Millennium Seed Bank, Kesseler takes scanning electron microscope images of plant seeds on the microscopic scale. He digitally paints them in order to bring out their unique physical and biological traits: Leafy wings that evolved to carry them aloft on the wind, spikes to hitch a ride on an animal’s coat, or a burly coat to survive a trip through the digestive system of a herbivore. Check out more of his images at Co.Design or at his full Phytopic gallery.
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The Beauty Of Microscopic Plant Seeds

Vincent Van Gogh painted sunflowers, and Claude Monet painted irises. Rob Kesseler paints seeds, only he uses electrons to do so.

Working with the Millennium Seed Bank, Kesseler takes scanning electron microscope images of plant seeds on the microscopic scale. He digitally paints them in order to bring out their unique physical and biological traits: Leafy wings that evolved to carry them aloft on the wind, spikes to hitch a ride on an animal’s coat, or a burly coat to survive a trip through the digestive system of a herbivore.

Check out more of his images at Co.Design or at his full Phytopic gallery.

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Paying VERY Close Attention To What You Eat Carin Alpert uses a scanning electron microscope to take a very close look at the foods we consume. Turns out that delicious things are rather extraterrestrial and terrifying when viewed on the microscopic scale. Co.Design has a food microscopy gallery you don’t want to miss. Oh, and those are cake sprinkles.
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Paying VERY Close Attention To What You Eat

Carin Alpert uses a scanning electron microscope to take a very close look at the foods we consume. Turns out that delicious things are rather extraterrestrial and terrifying when viewed on the microscopic scale.

Co.Design has a food microscopy gallery you don’t want to miss.

Oh, and those are cake sprinkles.

Source: fastcodesign.com

Scan-nom Electron Microscope? In what would surely classify as a “lab safety infraction”, Carin Alpert put some common foods under an electron microscope in order to view them in a new (electron beam) “light”. At the sub-optical scale, many of our favorite foods become mere crystal lattices or dried plant shells. From left, a coffee bean, red licorice and an Oreo. Definitely the coolest EM image I’ve seen since the bacteria on a diatom on an amphipod GIF. (Many more that you’ll want to check out at Colossal)
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Scan-nom Electron Microscope? In what would surely classify as a “lab safety infraction”, Carin Alpert put some common foods under an electron microscope in order to view them in a new (electron beam) “light”. At the sub-optical scale, many of our favorite foods become mere crystal lattices or dried plant shells. From left, a coffee bean, red licorice and an Oreo. Definitely the coolest EM image I’ve seen since the bacteria on a diatom on an amphipod GIF. (Many more that you’ll want to check out at Colossal)
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Scan-nom Electron Microscope? In what would surely classify as a “lab safety infraction”, Carin Alpert put some common foods under an electron microscope in order to view them in a new (electron beam) “light”. At the sub-optical scale, many of our favorite foods become mere crystal lattices or dried plant shells. From left, a coffee bean, red licorice and an Oreo. Definitely the coolest EM image I’ve seen since the bacteria on a diatom on an amphipod GIF. (Many more that you’ll want to check out at Colossal)
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Scan-nom Electron Microscope?

In what would surely classify as a “lab safety infraction”, Carin Alpert put some common foods under an electron microscope in order to view them in a new (electron beam) “light”. At the sub-optical scale, many of our favorite foods become mere crystal lattices or dried plant shells. From left, a coffee bean, red licorice and an Oreo.

Definitely the coolest EM image I’ve seen since the bacteria on a diatom on an amphipod GIF.

(Many more that you’ll want to check out at Colossal)