Meet Vance Williams, a professor of organic materials at Simon Fraser University. Williams, aside from being a scientist, is also creating art with his scientific findings.
In order to convey the information he discovered during his studies, Williams creates images of different chemicals and organic materials. His photos are bright, vibrant, and abstract. At first glance, the photos he publishes online look like drawn artworks, but they’re not!
Williams employs different steps in creating his magnificent images. Take, for example, his photo of a citric acid crystal. First he dissolves the material in water, then he lets it evaporate on a microscope slide. To generate the different colors for the image, he views the crystals with polarized optical microscopy. Finally, he chooses a slide and processes it using the site Make Hyperbolic Tilings of Images.
Aside from generating images of citric acid, Williams has also captured images of different organic materials. Check some of his images below and more on his Instagram!
Image credit: Vance Williams
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