Computer Animation Arts

Caught these stunning pieces of glass sculpture on my blog feed. Very on-topic! "Created in clear glass, the sculptures are designed for contemplation and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomenon." Full Gallery Here: http://www.lukejerram.com/glass/gallery

These giant glass microbes merge science and art  to each other Images of microorganisms are derived from electron microscopy and are usually enhanced with color. The color is generally arbitrary and used primarily to help distinguish the various elements of the image. But in fact most viruses are smaller than the wavelength of visible light, so they can't really have a color. His glass sculptures of these viruses, made in consultation with virologists using a variety of images and models, thus have a lot of merit as scientific illustrations and have been used as such. Beyond that, they're just really really cool. These sculptures were produced in collaboration with glass blowers Kim George, Brian Jones and Norman Veitch. There's plenty more viruses to look at and a lot of other cool stuff on his website  

Using high-resolution electron microscopic images, Luke Jerram has created accurate glass scultptures of viruses and bacteria including HIV, E. Coli, SARS and H1N1 (Swine Flu). It is truly a sight to see these menacing and harmful subjects in 3D and they even have a documentary showing a making of the HIV glass sculpture. There is a documentary on the creation of the HIV virus sculpture found here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhWgq8622Mw&feature=player_embedded To take a look at more of his impressive work take a look at his website found here - http://www.lukejerram.com/projects/glass_microbiology