{"id":402,"date":"2009-09-23T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2009\/09\/23\/virus_illusion_confusion\/"},"modified":"2009-09-23T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T20:48:00","slug":"virus_illusion_confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2009\/09\/23\/virus_illusion_confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus Illusion Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the very good offices of Matt Brown<\/a>, who knows everything about everything happening in London, I found myself at the Smithfield Gallery last night. Jenny<\/a>, Richard<\/a> and myself joined Matt there to gaze at Luke Jerram’s artful glassy virus sculptures.<\/p>\n

\tMatt has already blogged<\/a> about the evening so I will leave it to him to tell you more about the exhibition (which may also get a mention on Lablit<\/a> before too long). I want to go in a slightly different direction.<\/p>\n

\tYou will also see some beautiful photos on Matt’s post, but when I dug out my iPhone to snap a picture of one of the sculptures displayed on a light table, this is what I got:<\/p>\n

\t\"Virus<\/a>
\nStrip-lit sculpture?<\/em><\/p>\n

\tJenny asked me why the background was ribbed in the photo since no stripes were evident to our eyes – or in Matt’s or Richard’s pictures, taken on ‘real’ cameras. I had to confess that, despite being in possession of a degree in physics, I was stumped.<\/p>\n

\tHowever, I guess the question must have been gnawing away at me in the background because this afternoon, whilst traipsing back-and-forth between my office and the laser printer, I stumbled across a solution. Or, at least, I think<\/em> I did.<\/p>\n

\tBut before we get to that – would anyone else care to puzzle it out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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