Eccentric Orbits Tank Top

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Round and round and round they go, wobbling and bouncing in unstable eccentric orbits. A planetary fantasy that is also inspired by X-ray diffraction and scattering diagrams. For me, in my mind, the two ideas are inextricably intertwined.

The very large scale and the very small scale often oddly resemble one another. However for me their connection is more personal experience. When I was in grad school I'd work on writing and data analysis and diagramming during the day. At night the X-ray labs and electron microscope labs were quiet – it was possible to score the large blocks of time needed for complicated characterization of difficult and delicate samples.

So I'd head back to the labs after supper and work until well past midnight, in rooms kept darker than the night outside (to help see faint flickering hints of data and catch it, to protect the specialized films and detection equipment, etc). And I'd emerge into darkened hallways after even the night cleaning cr...

Follow me on Twitter @NerdlyPainter See my images available for Royalty free and Rights Managed Licenses ! (easy peasy checkout) Statement: Art can illuminate even the most elusive and difficult to comprehend ideas. Scientific imagery can be as impenetrable as well as intriguing and beautiful. Analysis of many technical diagrams, presentations of data, and scientific images is a set of commonly accepted rules that are learned and internalized over years of study and publication. These rules and tightly codified visual metaphors help scientists communicate complex ideas mostly amongst themselves, but they could also become barriers to new ideas and insights. Valluzzi's images are abstracted and diverge from the typical rules and...