Aesthetigraphs - Art, Nature, Materials

By Mike Meier

In preparation

In my past life as a materials scientist, I was fortunate enough to be able to spend a lot of time in a world few people ever get to visit. That world was often under an optical microscope, but it could also involve electrons, and x-rays. Between the photos I took, and those my colleague, Mike Dunlap, took using an electron microscope, we amassed quite a collection of compelling photographs, many of which are shown in this book.

The photographs are in chapters according to the type of imaging technique employed, and at the beginning of each chapter a brief description of what you will see is given. At the end of the book is a brief tutorial, explaining the things you saw, and that is followed by what would normally be captions for each photograph.

I hope you enjoy these photos, and I especially hope they make you curious about that world I once inhabited, and science in general.

And yes, you will need 3D glasses for the anaglyph chapter.