Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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fig.1 deformed carnallite.

I always had a soft spot for construction sites, particulairly the really big ones,
those where people look like ants in an iron nest. 'Megastructures', say it out
loud with some dramatic deep voice and you'll fall in love too. The shapes of iron beams
and stone walls are simple and easy to grasp, but these enormous projects are as
complex as the microstructure of the materials you find on a site.
Zoom into the iron and you get a kind of abstraction and a complex world that
is actually much more interesting than the outcome of a construction site.


Fig. 2 Steel

Fig. 3 Annealed brass
Fig. 4 Ductile iron

Fig. 5 Microstructural Development in Orthopyroxene


Fig. 6 Make a diagram of the result and you get a building again.


Fig 7. or other forms

more microstructures

A famous photographer with the same fascination
And something suitable from my own archive

Suzette

Goede post! Ik hou ook van mega- én microstructuren. Over grote structuren gesproken http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ (let ook op de tijd/datum onderaan, kun je zelf aanpassen. Hoe gaaf!) x je zus.