Psychedelic Bacteria: fluorescent Bacillus subtilis (No photoshop) by Fernan Federici on Flickr.
Pattern formation with fluorescent bacteria (TagBFP, mKate2 and sfGFP).
I can’t stress enough that you should go check out Fernan Federici’s full set on Flickr. Truly amazing stuff.
Federici isn’t just in it for the art, though. He’s a synthetic biologist using the “biofilm” building properties of bacteria to build defined forms in architecture, as well as using them as living biosensors. More at Synthetic Aesthetics.
Reminds me of these “photographic” bacteria developed here at UT-Austin years back.
colourscheme inspiration
Good god science is pretty.