The images may be digital, but the creatures are very real in The Virtual Insectary, a collection of beautiful photographs by Kenneth J. Stein at the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences at Virginia Tech. This straightforward and handsome educational resource stems from his work designing and implementing invertebrate surveys for various environmental impact studies.

Science for Art?s Sake

Stare Case
by Alan Dorin ?Alan Dorin
Dept. of Computer Science at Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
(click on image to see more)

Various forms of artificial life populate Alan Dorin's Animaland. This researcher and inventor of computer-based alife offers a tour through his world, "the place in my imagination where all these things spring into existence," with animated films, music, and still images of virtual protozoans.

Recently Featured Art

Pure GFP by Yang Hong,

Victor Ambros Lab, Dartmouth and

Light Forest by Betsy Connors

(Issue 14 ? posted August 15, 1997)

Peeled Polymer Magnified (200 micrometers) by Felice Frankel and

NanoFuture Space 6 by Alexa R.W. Smith

(Issue 13 ? posted July 25, 1997)

Visible Human Female, from Center for Human Simulation

at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and

Interior Cartography No.9 by Tatiana Parcero

(Issue 12 ? posted July 12, 1997)

Hydromantes shastae, by Randy Schmieder and

Rat-King (Rattenkonig) by Katharina Fritsch

(Issue 11 ? posted June 27, 1997)

Porphyra columbina, from The Protist Image Data Gallery and

Binary worms by Jim Pallas

(Issue 10 ? posted June 13, 1997)

Deoxyribonuclease I from The Protein Data Bank and

Clip from a light sculpture by Paul Freidlander

(Issue 9 ? posted May 30, 1997)

Einstein through a bee's eye by Andrew Giger and

Sequential Molecules, 1995 by Catherine Wagner

(Issue 8 ? posted May 16, 1997)

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