I actually discovered an image similar to this back when I was a Biology major a year back. One of the topics covered was diatoms, a class of microscopic organisms that were actually used often for aesthetically pleasing photography. With a variety of shapes and colors, the microorganisms are a perfect subject.
The above image is of Licmophora which looks like some sort of seaweed, but are actually invisible to the naked eye. Many examples of diatom art required painstaking arrangement of the subjects using VERY small tools. As the above image above shows, this process can yield very beautiful results.
That's amazing about people rearranging these to make art.
ReplyDeleteYou might be interested in some of the drawing Ernst Haekel made of radiolarians.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=ernst%20haeckel%20radiolaria&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi