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Peter Kutchukian, a current graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard, has started a new nanotechnology-related art/gallery site, www.nanohedron.com: “Nanohedron aims to exhibit scientific images, with a focus on images depicting nanoscale objects. The work ranges from EM images of nanoscale materials to graphical renderings of molecules. Scientific images lying outside the realm of nanoscience such as algorithmic art will also be considered.”

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After about 10 years, the STIX fonts project published their fonts for beta testing today. Their goal

is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats.

The fonts will be provided under a royality free license.

Scientific visualization from the past: In 1660 Andreas Cellarius published his Harmonia Macrocosmica. A beautifully illustrated star atlas. Here are nice scans of the plates while here and here are online browsable scans of the book. via the cartoonist

It has always been fun to watch the productions of designer collective rAndom international. Starting out with the famous pixelroller (a paint roll rolling out pixels onto the wall) and the mass production pixel tape (a tape customizing pixelized writings) they seem to get more and more into lighting, like e.g. one of their newest products sunlight table.

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Recently I ran over this peculiar piece of constrained writing:
Poe, E.: Near a Raven

…just some new color inspirations for the next Paris fashion week…:)

The above picture clearly shows, that Han Solo exagerated, when he first took the Death Star for a moon. (more…)

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