glass models of viruses

[firecat]

Oooohhhh
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/02/the-unsettling-beauty-of-lethal-viruses/
http://www.lukejerram.com/glass/

And that led me to this:
http://www.madmuseum.org/exhibition/playing-with-fire
Steffen Dam, "Marine Group"

Comments

[laughingrat]

Those are beautiful!

[striped]

The glass sculptures are gorgeous!

(Science nitpick: neither E. coli nor the malaria parasite are viruses! And both are featured in the "lethal viruses" article. E. coli is a bacterium and the malaria parasite is, uh, I don't know if there's yet a good classification for it but let's say protist.)

[jinian]

Looks like they figured that out eventually. The blog post now has some strikethroughs and amendments.