http://www.eyeofscience.de/eos2/index2.html

Check the gallery section!!!!! Some fairly amasing photo's in there!!:worship:

for example, this is a capilary (human I'm not sure) with some red blood cells oosssing out

i love looking at things like that. it always amazes me how the same engineering principles apply to structures at all levels regardless of scale and size. it makes me ask so many quesitons.

dont forget the colours arent real

wow thats amazing!

faster4_tec said:

http://www.eyeofscience.de/eos2/index2.html

Check the gallery section!!!!! Some fairly amasing photo's in there!!:worship:

for example, this is a capilary (human I'm not sure) with some red blood cells oosssing out

Click to expand...

the description to go with pic

04. Capillary
Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a cross-section of a
human capillary, showing the red blood cells (red discs) it contains.
The smallest type of blood vessel, capillaries pervade body tissue,
forming a fine network that links veins and arteries.
They have permeable walls that allow the exchange of gases and
nutrients between the blood and tissue. Also known as erythrocytes,
red blood cells transport oxygen to the tissue and carbon dioxide
back to the lungs. Magnification: 2.600 X.

I know they've added colours for effect. as they don't come out anything like that, require painting in

as jug has already pointed out, if you go to botany (or whatever plants are listed on there as), the wee little structures that they are made from are soo organic, and yet when you look at something like the man made superconductive material, they are so similar.

Fascinating stuff Faster4_tec! Some of those pictures were truly amazing, even if the colours were added afterwards. Check out the crystal pictures as well.

And Jug, yes, the principles are the same in terms of engineering/ structures. I think that is the same philosophy behind 'fractals' - essentially how ever big or small you magnify something the basic structures remain the same.

Would love to see them actually show electrons, protons and neutrons within an atom. That would be truly amazing, but I don't think electron microscopes are quite up to that task yet.