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Wednesday, 17 January 2007 - 11:26 PM SL Time |  | |
What art is hiding on your microchip?
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More than 10 years ago, Michael Davidson went looking to capture the beauty of microchip circuitry in photographs. In among the transistors and wire traces, he found something unexpected: Waldo.
`When I first saw him, he was upside-down, and I didn`t recognize his face,` the Florida-based cell biology researcher said.
Davidson suspected at first that the tiny design he saw was circular patterns added to the chip to thwart attempts by reverse-engineers to deduce its inner workings. But a second inspection showed it to be the characteristically hard-to-find character from the children`s book series. `I realized, `This is a doodle of some kind.` Then I started looking over the whole chip. I discovered Daffy Duck and other things on that chip,` Davidson said.
That was just the start of a catalog that now holds more than 100 images of extremely small automobiles, dinosaurs, birds of prey, cartoon characters and even a wedding announcement silhouette--all tucked away among microchip circuits. Davidson calls the collection the Silicon Zoo.
After Davidson found Waldo, he and others started enthusiastically tearing apart Hewlett-Packard workstations and Digital Equipment Corp.`s Vax minicomputers from to find more. And when Davidson posted the images online, chip designers started sending him new samples, often challenging him to find the artwork without telling him what it was. Now he has more than 300 chips with unusual micrographic imagery.
While the width of the Waldo image is just over half the diameter of a human hair, sizes vary widely, depending on artistic impulses and the ever-shrinking features made possible with more advanced chip manufacturing. The difficulty of finding them is commensurate. `Some are so big, it`s like finding an automobile in a haystack. Some are so small, it`s like finding a needle,` Davidson said.
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MarkLevinson
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17 Jan 2007 17:47:49 GMT Report for Abuse
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The top picture looks like my ghost :):):)
MY GHOST.....successful ghost eh?????
Poor DUCK:(:(:( |
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17 Jan 2007 18:09:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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i like 2 bottom up :)
hopefully in your leisure time i hope! |
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17 Jan 2007 18:18:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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hopefully in your leisure time i hope!
Darn..thats super funny......:):):):)
Anyway...a bottoms up Duck would provide a nice target for a caretaker ghost!!! |
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17 Jan 2007 18:29:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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like 2 bottom up :)
hopefully in your leisure time i hope!
lol.. good one |
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17 Jan 2007 18:42:57 GMT Report for Abuse
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like 2 bottom up :)
hopefully in your leisure time i hope!
u c , pple twisting things :))
Edited By - Thambi - 17 Jan 2007 18:43:28 GMT |
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17 Jan 2007 18:51:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thambi
you c , pple twisting things :))
what to do mind is wild and everyone has a animal within. |
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17 Jan 2007 19:00:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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Penn,
what to do mind is wild and everyone has a animal within.
I have a BIG one within....only the tail can be seen :):):):) |
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17 Jan 2007 19:04:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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what to do mind is wild and everyone has a animal within.
yes true everyone wants to be a tiger in bed! |
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17 Jan 2007 19:05:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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The microchip art forms are very easy to create since they have been drawn with the help of computer and laser.
The hardest thing to do is micro sculpturing. Here is the link for one of best known micro sculptors, Willard Wigan.
Home page:
http://www.willard-wigan.com/artist/artist1.html |
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