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- 3. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1295587226/air-ink-the-worlds-first-ink-made-out-of-air-pollu
- 9. The most beautiful bacteria you’ll ever see… https://ideas.ted.com/gallery-the-most-beautiful-bacteria-youll-ever-see/
- 23. 'Plan Bee' drone artificially pollinates flowers on behalf of bees https://www.designboom.com/technology/haldewag-plan-bee-drone-03-03-2017/
- 24. It is designed to mimic the shape of a flower
- 25. The drones could be reproduced to work on a large agricultural scale
- 26. The bee drone is designed to work peacefully alongside nature
- 28. These multi-purpose bricks are especially crucial as bee populations dwindle due to habitat loss and a changing climate.
- 48. Chandeliers constructed from recycled plastic PET bottles http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/10/chandeliers-constructed-from-recycled-plastic-pet-bottles-by-veronika-richterova/
- 67. Creating the never-ending bloom http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/05/the-never-ending-bloom-john-edmark/
- 71. The Natural Fractals of Google Earth https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-natural-fractals-of-google-earth
Editor's Notes
- Envisioning Chemistry is a collaboration project between Beauty of Science and Chinese Chemical Society. It is also the sequel to the award-winning project Beautiful Chemistry launched 3 years ago. Building on the success of Beautiful Chemistry, which let millions of people discovered the unique beauty of chemistry.
- “Paint Action”: Black Hole and Liquid Jewel. In this cycle, Oefner explored the possibilities of modeling paint by natural forces. Inspired by a photograph of Jackson Pollock at work, it was the artist’s ambition to capture the fleeting moment of paint in motion, ultimately making the process of creation tangible through a photograph. Although the images are made with different forces such as centrifugal force and pneumatics (balloon explosion), they all display structures of ephemeral beauty, lasting only for a couple of milliseconds.
- “Paint Action”: Black Hole and Liquid Jewel. In this cycle, Oefner explored the possibilities of modeling paint by natural forces. Inspired by a photograph of Jackson Pollock at work, it was the artist’s ambition to capture the fleeting moment of paint in motion, ultimately making the process of creation tangible through a photograph. Although the images are made with different forces such as centrifugal force and pneumatics (balloon explosion), they all display structures of ephemeral beauty, lasting only for a couple of milliseconds.
- MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group has created a system to fold materials into various origami shapes when inflated, turning specifically designed paper, plastic, and fabric into representations of swans, helixes, or other 3D figures with minimal human interaction. The project, aeroMorph, utilizes special software to program the geometry needed for each three-dimensional shape and exports the information as digital fabrication files.
- Now, a team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed a soft robot that uses those same principles of locomotion to crawl without any rigid components. The soft robotic scales are made using kirigami — an ancient Japanese paper craft that relies on cuts, rather than origami folds, to change the properties of a material. As the robot stretches, the flat kirigami surface is transformed into a 3D-textured surface, which grips the ground just like snake skin.
- Recently, researchers started to engineer not only the outer shape of objects, but also their internal microstructure. Such objects, typically based on 3D cell grids, are also known as metamaterials. Metamaterials have been used, for example, to create materials with soft and hard regions.