Here are two videos I made of Vorticella. These are basically filter feeders. I have posted examples before but these show more detail, especially the vortexes they create near their "mouths"

After a bit of a break I am back with some more microscope videos I recorded. These are both at a magnification of 40x. This first video shows an organism which is approximately 60 microns in length. I'm

Hello. I thought I'd share pictures and videos of some moths I raised from eggs last year. The variety is the Gum Snout Moth aka Entometa fervens. I found a female moth that had become trapped in a shed

Hi again. Another microscope video I made. This is from another sample of stagnant water. This is a close up of a microorganism called a ciliate. I'm not sure of the exact type ... possibly Euplotes.

Hi. I haven't posted in a while but after finding some more interesting critters under the microscope, I had to share. This is from a drop of stagnant water. There are some very large paramecium swimming

I thought I'd try something different from fractals and microscope videos. Here's a word puzzle... a crossword of sorts. The squares aren't numbered but there are some letters provided as hints. Here are

Three more fractals for your perusal. The third one is a good example of repetitive fractal structure even if it's not particularly attractive looking (in my opinion). The fern-like patterns can be magnified

Some more microscopic life. Magnification x 400. This video shows a small thread of cyanobacteria. I think the two large spherical structures on the left side are heterocysts which are able to fix atmospheric

Some more fractals from my collection. Enjoy. Richard

Greetings. Still exploring with the microscope. Here are a couple of videos showing cool microbes. I'm not sure exactly what they are though. This next one is pretty amazing. This guy is about 20 by 30

Hello again. When I first started working with fractals I learned very quickly to record everything I did so that I could recreate any image I wanted at any size without having to digitally enlarge, which

Greetings. More fractals. No I'm not obsessed..... much. As I've said previously, a small change in a fractal equation can create startling differences in the images generated. These are some more examples

Hello again. More from the microscope, but this time I decided to try something other than microbial life. The first video shows a piece of moss but I had to focus in and out a lot to see the detail. The

Two more videos from drain water. The first shows a clump of algal strands with a mass of bacteria swarming around it and the second shows two amoeba slithering around. I showed another amoeba in a previous

Hi again. Here are three more microscope videos. These are from a drop of drain water. Magnification factor x400. The first one shows a huge critter... well, at 70 microns across he's huge compared to

Yes another fractal post. I'll post more microscope videos soon though.... and other things. The fractals I have posted so far are graphical representations of complex equations. I could have posted an

Hi again. A few more microscope videos. The first shows some navicular (boat shaped) diatoms. These are amazing little creatures that have silica skeletons. They are responsible for the formation of

Hi. Something other than fractals today. I thought I'd share a couple of microscope videos I took. The first shows paramecium shooting around in a drop of pond slime. Their speed is incredible compared

Good morning (locally at least). More fractals! I will talk about something else eventually. Fractal mathematics is not just for making pretty pictures. It also has application in various fields of science

Greetings. If you've been following along with the fractal topic, you may be wondering if I've ever sold any. Well, yes I have but not many. Lots of people like them but abstract digital art of this kind