"Glass Microbiology" glass sculptures let you see deadly viruses

Well here we go.

I came across this little article of an artist who creates these clear glass representations of known viruses and what not. He clearly acknowledges they are 'interpretations' which he has cleared with those in the fields as far as how accurate these representations are.

In any-case I think these have an artistic beauty and I thought I'd share them here. I like some of the comments posted below and the reference to the 'Matrix' I did a quick search and nothing came up with this articles title or premise.

T4 Bacteriophage

Malaria

Ev.71 — Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

HIV (2011)

Gorgeous glass sculptures let you see into the world's most deadly viruses

Viruses are usually depicted as ugly, scary, almost weapon-like blobs just waiting to meddle inside of your body, but Luke Jerram sees them as something different. There isn't really a color to viruses after all — they're smaller than the wavelength of visible light — and as mere smears when viewed under a microscope, there's plenty of room left open when deciding how to illustrate them.

Since 2004, Jerram has been turning viruses and other pathogens into stunning glass sculptures that are just as eerie as they are beautiful as part of an ongoing series titled "Glass Microbiology." He chooses some of the most feared and deadly subjects out there too, making chilling portraits of everything from HIV to malaria.

Of course, creating the sculptures involves some amount of interpretation. They've been blown up to around 1 million times their actual size, and, according to The New York Times, have been exaggerated to make some of their more distinctive features appear all the more impressive.

Anyway, I thought they were cool looking

He should do Diatoms, they are amazing.

There is so many combinations and variations of them.. they are like snow flakes... a mathematical construct.

Interesting factoid: Malaria was once a problem in the American South, but was eradicated with the start of programs around the 1930s into the 1950s.

Very neat-o post Slayer. S+F!

Cool stuff but Ill admit Im a bit disappointed,

When I saw you were the author I assumed this was gonna be about that Roman glass they found and how we had applied the tech from it to make some sort of glass that told you what diseases you had LOL

You get a flag but no star coz of my high expectations

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Very cool S&F

as usual...

Heres the heavy weight champ...

Ebola

Very cool! They would look great around the house!

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Ebola was one of my favorites too

Ok, that doesn't sound right

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Sounds right to me...

How can you not be impressed by something that can kill a human in a week... sometimes less

:O

And they wonder why I don't trust Klingons!

Ev.71 — Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

yep sure looks familiar...

Those are really cool. To me though the real artist is the glass blower who actually creates them. The "artist" referenced in the article just sketches the virus and sends it off to the glass blower who produces them. Kudos for the idea, but the real art is produced by someone else.

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Could you imagine the trial and error to get them right?

boggles the mind

SLAYER69
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Could you imagine the trial and error to get them right?

boggles the mind

Its absolutely mind blowing. The intricacy is amazing, I bet it cost the designer a pretty penny to commission them all.

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I've been trying to find a video of them being produced.

Stay tuned.

Wowser! Thanks a bunch for the eye candy!
I've watched a few glass workers and it always absolutely fascinates me. One of my kids studied it for about a year and got pretty good. But it's a very dangerous profession and one he chose not to pursue. But his year of immersion made us all appreciate what goes into such work.

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What Roman glass do you speak of?

Awesome thread, that is true beauty. So alien ... yet a part of us all.

OccamsRazor04
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What Roman glass do you speak of?

Awesome thread, that is true beauty. So alien ... yet a part of us all.

This 1

Lycurgus cup

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Oh. Pretty amazing, nanotechnology has been used for thousands of years in glasswork. Definitely wouldnt have anything to do with this topic though.

Heres e-Coli for you……….




these works of art are actually larger than i thought…..


Regards

PDUK

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Wow. Have to come back to this.

F&S