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"This is a cosmopolitan genus, occurring in alpine habitats of temperate regions of Asia, Europe and the Americas. Some species also occur in northwest Africa, eastern Australia and New Zealand. They consist of annual, biennial and perennial plants. Some are evergreen, others are not.

"The name is a tribute to Gentius, an Illyrian king who was thought to have found out that the herbs had tonic properties." (Wikipedia)

"Gentians have opposite leaves that are sometimes arranged in a basal rosette, and trumpet-shaped flowers that are usually deep blue or azure, but may vary from white, creamy and yellow to red. Many species also show considerable polymorphism with respect to flower color. Typically, blue-flowered species predominate in the Northern Hemisphere, with red-flowered species dominant in the Andes (where bird pollination is probably more heavily favored by natural selection). White-flowered species are scattered throughout the range of the genus but dominate in New Zealand. All gentian species have terminal tubular flowers and most are pentamerous, i.e. with 5 corolla lobes (petals), and 5 sepals, but 4-7 in some species. The style is rather short or absent. The corolla shows folds (= plicae) between the lobes. The ovary is mostly sessile and has nectary glands." (Wikipedia)

In traditional Chinese medicine, G. tibetica is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and to calm nervousness.

Morphological description of G. tibetica:

www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=2...

My complete set of images of G. tibetica:

www.flickr.com/photos/jim-sf/sets/72157628774992609/

Photographed in U.C. Botanical Garden at Berkeley - Berkeley, California

Spherulitic obsidian (Medicine Lake Highlands, California, USA) 3 by James St. John

Spherulitic obsidian from the Cenozoic of California, USA.

The black material is obsidian, a glassy-textured, felsic to intermediate volcanic rock. The whitish-gray areas are perlite devitrification spherulites composed of cristobalite (SiO2), a polymorph of quartz.

Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed site east of Cougar Butte, Medicine Lake Highlands, far-eastern Siskiyou County, northern California, USA

Marchantia polymorpha by L'herbier en photos

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Marchantia polymorpha L. (jeunes pousses)

Fouille archéologique (alt. 210 m)

Villers-devant-Orval (province de Luxembourg, Wallonie, Belgique)

DSCN4810.ScottStein by Edward Bujak

Princeton Molecular Biology Workshop

at the

Springside School, Philadelphia, PA

April 1, 2, 15, and 18, 2009

This photo is from

April 18 - Human VNTR Polymorphism

Photo by Ed Bujak.

IMG_7909 by Jason Dewees

L:R, top to bottom:

Metrosideros polymorpha

Carpentaria acuminata

Attalea amygdalina

Livistona chinensis

Adonidia merrillii

DSCN4821.Computer LoggerPro image of gel by Edward Bujak

Princeton Molecular Biology Workshop

at the

Springside School, Philadelphia, PA

April 1, 2, 15, and 18, 2009

This photo is from

April 18 - Human VNTR Polymorphism

Photo by Ed Bujak.

Tesselate by Jim Edwards by Matthew Wells

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DSCN4757.PCR machine.ScottStein by Edward Bujak

Princeton Molecular Biology Workshop

at the

Springside School, Philadelphia, PA

April 1, 2, 15, and 18, 2009

This photo is from

April 15 - Human VNTR Polymorphism

Morph Target by Signe Tveitan by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Rice Genetics II_p418 by IRRI Photos

1. Genomic Southern blot comparing cultivars M202 and IR36. Genomic DNA was digested with restriction enzymes in single or double digests as indicated above their respective lanes. R = Eco RI, B = Bam HI. H = Hin d III, K = Kpn I. Digested DNAs were electrophoresed on agarose gels pairwise such that restriction fragment length polymorphism could be identified between the two

varieties. The blot was then probed at low stringency (T m -30) with the rice aamylase cDNA, pOS103 (O’Neill et al 1990).

books.google.com.ph/books/irri?id=B4KrnP8cMQAC&lpg=PA...

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Luminescence Open Day, Saturday 25th May, 2013 by Institute of Making

One of our Volunteers demonstrating some UV

Kobarsüsik (Xylaria polymorpha). Dead man's fingers. by Imbi Vahuri

Eestis haruldane kaitsealune liik. Üks vana suurema huvi puudusel klõpsatud ja unustatud foto imelikust elukast, kellest ei saanud aru, on need koerajunnid või midagi muud. Ja nii juhtub ikka veel, et ebaatraktiivse eluka tõeline olemus selgub alles kodus ja siis närid meelehärmist küüsi.

No. 43/56: The London Man by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

polymorph-internal-2 by John Pallister

While replacing a scratchy pot I took a couple of shots of the interior of my Polymorph. I found all the duct tape on the connectors to be mildly amusing.

DSCN4802.Pouring buffer.VirginiaPearson,MarciaButler,BarbBess-Pashak by Edward Bujak

Princeton Molecular Biology Workshop

at the

Springside School, Philadelphia, PA

April 1, 2, 15, and 18, 2009

This photo is from

April 18 - Human VNTR Polymorphism

Photo by Ed Bujak.

Polycaprolactone beads by Nicholas Stevens

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A wonderful material! See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycaprolactone for more details. This softens at 62 degrees C, and so you can just drop the beads into hot water and when they go clear, then just take them out, squeeze out the water and shape by hand. They don't burn, but get a grown up to help if you have very thin skin. This stuff is sold as 'Polymorph' and Maplins will charge you £18 for 500g, or online you can pay just over half that. These are lit from below by a strong flash. The initial reason is that the background was full of people bending over and talking to children, children, and various forms of chaos, so I though, why not make it all turn black? Once I tried it however, I liked the look, and went off to find more things to photgraph this way.

Mollisia sp. by Jacqueline Labrecque

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Récolté par Jules Cimon

Date de récolte : 14/ 05 / 2012

Substrat : érumpant au-travers l’écorce de feuillu décomposé

Asques à 8 spores bisériées, avec crochet à la base et amyloïdes à l’apex, 50,5-74 x 6-7 µm

Paraphyses cylindriques, rarement légèrement élargies à l’apex, ramifiées sur la partie médiane, septées, entièrement à contenu huileux, jusqu’à 85 x 2,8 µm, dépassant les asques jusqu’à 10-15 µm

Spores cylindriques à obtusément fusoïdes, parfois moyennement arquées, finement septées (difficile à préciser), avec 2-3 guttules, hyalines jaunâtres, 10,6-16,4 x 2,2-3 µm, 13,5 x 2,6 µm de diam., Q = 4.1-6.2, Q moyen = 5,2

Medulla en textura intricata / ± épidermoïde, formé d’hyphes parfois ± parallèles et de cellules polymorphes 9-15 µm

Excipulum ectal en textura globulosa, formé de cellules à paroi épaissie jusqu’à 1,6 µm, pigmentées brun olivâtre, 9-19 x 7-15 µm

Revêtement externe formé de cellules globuleuses à ellipsoïdes à caténulées, à paroi épaissie, brun olivâtre foncé, avec éléments terminaux 6,5-12,4 x 6,5-10,5 µm

Poils marginaux clavés, plus étroits à la base, hyalins à brunâtres, mesurant 5,5-11,5 x 3-8 µm sur la partie terminale de l’apex

Base de l’apothécie adhérant au substrat, dépourvue de ces cellules

Les Sources Occultes 001/999 _DDC6811 by thierry ehrmann

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Les Sources Occultes 001/999

blog.ehrmann.org/films2/les-sources-occultes-001999.html

Entre effroi et merveilles, une zone mouvante aux portes du futur et des enfers...

Les Sources Occultes vous entraînent au coeur d'un univers polymorphe dont les clés et les motifs se révéleront au fur et à mesure des épisodes de cette série de fictions.

En attendant un final apocalyptique, au sens premier du terme, qui révélera la structure générale sous la forme d'un long-métrage...

Les Sources Occultes offre aussi une nouvelle porte d'entrée dans le labyrinthe multidimensionnel de la Demeure du Chaos à celles et ceux qui postulent à notre casting, une occasion unique de pénétrer les arcanes de l'esprit de la Salamandre.

Réalisation : Laurent Courau

Scénario : thierry Ehrmann

Press © Frédéric Stoll by HEXAGONE SCÈNE NATIONALE ARTS SCIENCES - MEYLAN

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Press

Conception, scénographie, chorégraphie et interprétation Pierre Rigal

Créée au Gate Theatre de Londres en 2008, cette performance chorégraphique - jouée plus de 200 fois dans le monde - inspirée par des textes de Edgar Keret, met en scène un inquiétant dandy, mannequin polymorphe mu par l’enchaînement standardisé de ses propres automatismes, mais aussi par les rouages de son étroit espace vital. Absurde, drôle et angoissant, Pierre Rigal met sous presse la menaçante banalité de l’homme contemporain.

MA 9 OCT 20h

Danse - durée 1h

En ouverture de la Fête de la science et dans le cadre de Experimenta

www.theatre-hexagone.eu

No. 2/20: The Starry Night by Matthew Wells

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Les Sources Occultes 001/999 - 07 by thierry ehrmann

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Les Sources Occultes 001/999

blog.ehrmann.org/films2/les-sources-occultes-001999.html

Entre effroi et merveilles, une zone mouvante aux portes du futur et des enfers...

Les Sources Occultes vous entraînent au coeur d'un univers polymorphe dont les clés et les motifs se révéleront au fur et à mesure des épisodes de cette série de fictions.

En attendant un final apocalyptique, au sens premier du terme, qui révélera la structure générale sous la forme d'un long-métrage...

Les Sources Occultes offre aussi une nouvelle porte d'entrée dans le labyrinthe multidimensionnel de la Demeure du Chaos à celles et ceux qui postulent à notre casting, une occasion unique de pénétrer les arcanes de l'esprit de la Salamandre.

Réalisation : Laurent Courau

Scénario : thierry Ehrmann

Swashbuckler by Peter Lord by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

DSCN4822.Digital bioimaging system.BarbaraBess-Pashak by Edward Bujak

Princeton Molecular Biology Workshop

at the

Springside School, Philadelphia, PA

April 1, 2, 15, and 18, 2009

This photo is from

April 18 - Human VNTR Polymorphism

Photo by Ed Bujak.

doll armature & plan by Lenny Carter

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I drew a plan for the twisted wire and the placing of the 'bones' which is polymorph - this will help her arms and legs bend in the right place.

apparently I've placed the 'bones' to close together but this is my first time so I'm bound to make mistakes.

the doll was covered with wadding and material - it also has tie-downs which help the doll stand up and walk.

Les Sources Occultes 001/999 - 10 by thierry ehrmann

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Les Sources Occultes 001/999

blog.ehrmann.org/films2/les-sources-occultes-001999.html

Entre effroi et merveilles, une zone mouvante aux portes du futur et des enfers...

Les Sources Occultes vous entraînent au coeur d'un univers polymorphe dont les clés et les motifs se révéleront au fur et à mesure des épisodes de cette série de fictions.

En attendant un final apocalyptique, au sens premier du terme, qui révélera la structure générale sous la forme d'un long-métrage...

Les Sources Occultes offre aussi une nouvelle porte d'entrée dans le labyrinthe multidimensionnel de la Demeure du Chaos à celles et ceux qui postulent à notre casting, une occasion unique de pénétrer les arcanes de l'esprit de la Salamandre.

Réalisation : Laurent Courau

Scénario : thierry Ehrmann

Luminescence Open Day, Saturday 25th May, 2013 by Institute of Making

Robotic Eye webcams

Ils sont bien présents ! by bernardupeu

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Les"Pucerons" sont malheureusement bien connus à cause des dégâts faits aux cultures de toutes sortes; ce sont des suceurs de sève qui souvent, par le canal salivaire, injectent des virus aux végétaux : viroses des plantes maraîchères et des céréales (frisolées, frisées, enroulements, panachures, bigarrures, mosaïques, jaunisses...); ils sont si nombreux et si variés qu'ils constituent une Super-Famille (Aphidoides) où leur polymorphie est un des traits essentiels : une même espèce peut connaitre plusieurs formes allant des individus ailés ou aptères, sexués ou parthénogénétiques, ovipares ou vivipares !!!

My own first resin cast by Evie ex Machina

Finally … :))))

Morph On Guard by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Coleopteroid rhyparochromid bug. by Tony

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I thought this rhyparachromid bug was a black beetle when I first saw it climbing this concrete wall. It was pure shiny black and wings were of coleopteroid form. That is the wings met down the middle without overlapping. The corium (thickened portion) being enlarged with the membranous ends reduced to small flaps (barely visible - see note on pic). Thus also exsposing some of the rear abdominal segments.

Apparantly coleoptery occurs numerously across Lygaeoidea in Australia but noticeably so in rhyparachromids. Slater (1975) observed a greater occurance of this form in these bugs found in exposed hot xeric habitat and thus suggests it is an insulation adaptation.

Recommended paper (free):

Slater JA 1975. "On the Biology and Zoogeography of Australian Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with Special Reference to the Southwest Fauna".

J. Aust. en. Soc., 1975, 14: 47-64.

Photographed in Dynnyrne, Hobart, TAS.

Leafcutting Ant CDODDS_J1X5037 by Christopher Dodds

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Leaf-cutter ants have powerful jaws which vibrate a thousand times a second to slice off pieces of leaf. Size for size, their bodies are amazingly powerful, able to carry pieces of leaf that weigh at least 20 times their own body weight - that's the same as a human carrying a one ton load. Like bees, their colonies contain different sorts of workers. Soldier leaf-cutters have huge jaws, strong enough to cut through leather and gardener leaf-cutters work beneath ground and process the pieces of the leaf that the harvesters bring back. The nest also contains a queen and she lays all the eggs needed to keep the colony supplied with new workers. Leaf-cutting ants cannot eat leaves. Instead, they carry the cut pieces back to the nest and use it as compost to cultivate the fungus. The fungus cannot survive outside the nest or reproduce without the ants help. Amazingly, if the ants collect plant material that is toxic to the fungus, the fungus seems to release a chemical signal which stops the ants collecting that particularly plant material. There can be three to eight million ants in a single colony, which can measure 15 m across and 5 m deep. The ants forage for leaves some distance from their nest. They find their way home by producing and laying down pheromone (scent) trails as they move away from the nest. These pheromones are so powerful that each ant produces only one billionth of a gram. One gram of this pheromone would easily be enough to make an ant trail all around the world. Leaf-cutting ants harvest more greenery in South American forests than any other animal. In fact, within the rain forest, leaf-cutter ants consume almost 20% of the annual vegetation growth! In its lifetime, a colony of these ants may move over 20 tons of soil.

Polymorphism v2 by Hugo Darras

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extrem case of worker polymorphism in an ant

Ants of Taiwan 2009

台灣螞蟻

Morpheby by Wetherby Prep by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Luminescence Open Day, Saturday 25th May, 2013 by Institute of Making

Mark talking about the materials library

Luminescence Open Day, Saturday 25th May, 2013 by Institute of Making

Spoon made of Polymorph

Teapotty on display in a cabinet at the V&A by Rain Rabbit

Teapotty! is an interactive electronic teapot I've constructed for the Chi-TEK tech tea party event at the V&A in Sept 11. Before and after the tea party, it will sit quietly on display in a cabinet for 3 months. www.mztek.org/programs/chi-tek/

Teapotty! is a teapot sitting on a servo which takes readings from a magnetometer which is influenced by neodymium magnets in a cup. The magnetometer takes the reading from the north position, plays a bit of something similar to the Tetley Tea tune and then moves to a new position - where the teacup moves to. BlinkM RGB LEDs indicate the new position of the teapot by changing colour based on the teapot's new position from 0-180 degrees. I made some polymorph diffuser covers for them & also added heart confetti to emphasise the feeling of heartwarming happiness a cup of tea can bring :-)

My videos & blog post are here: rainycatz.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/teapotty-electronic-te...

The Astromorph has Landed by Matthew Wells

At Asda, Wallsend

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No. 36/56: Chocks Away! by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

PICT0005 by Philipp

polymorph...it gets transperent when it is getting fluid. 3d printing for the rest of us

Teapotty at the Chi-Tek Tea Party at the V&A by Rain Rabbit

Chi-TEK Tea Party of electronic / hacked teapots by women artists at the V&A, London www.mztek.org/programs/chi-tek/

Teapotty! is a teapot sitting on a servo which takes readings from a magnetometer which is influenced by neodymium magnets in a cup. The magnetometer takes the reading from the north position, plays a bit of something similar to the Tetley Tea tune and then moves to a new position - where the teacup moves to. BlinkM RGB LEDs indicate the new position of the teapot by changing colour based on the teapot's new position from 0-180 degrees. I made some polymorph diffuser covers for them & also added heart confetti to emphasise the feeling of heartwarming happiness a cup of tea can bring :-)

My videos & blog post about Teapotty are here: rainycatz.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/teapotty-electronic-te...

_DSC3183 by Carsten Olsen

Muonionalusta

The Muonionalusta is a meteorite classified as fine octahedrite, type IVA (Of) which impacted in northern Scandinavia, west of the border between Sweden and Finland, about one million years BCE. The first fragment of the Muonionalusta was found in 1906 near the village of Kitkiöjärvi. Around forty pieces are known today, some being quite large. Other fragments have been found in a 25-by-15-kilometre (15.5 mi × 9.3 mi) area in the Pajala district of Norrbotten County, approximately 140 kilometres (87 mi) north of the Arctic Circle. The meteorite was first described in 1910 by Professor A. G. Högbom, who named it "Muonionalusta", after a nearby place on the Muonio River. It was studied in 1948 by Professor Nils Göran David Malmqvist. The Muonionalusta, probably the oldest known meteorite (4.5653 billion years), marks the first occurrence of stishovite in an iron meteorite.

Description

Studies have shown it to be the oldest discovered meteorite impacting the Earth during the Quaternary Period, about one million years ago. It is quite clearly part of the iron core or mantle of a planetoid, which shattered into many pieces upon its fall on our planet. Since landing on Earth the meteorite has experienced four ice ages. It was unearthed from a glacial moraine in the northern tundra. It has a strongly weathered surface covered with cemented faceted pebbles.

Composition

ew analysis of this strongly shock-metamorphosed iron meteorite has shown a content of 8.4% nickel and trace amounts of rare elements—0.33 ppm gallium, 0.133 ppm germanium and 1.6 ppm iridium. It also contains the minerals chromite, daubréelite, schreibersite, akaganéite and inclusions of troilite. For the first time, analysis has proved the presence of a form of quartz altered by extremely high pressure—stishovite, probably a pseudomorphosis after tridymite. From the article "First discovery of stishovite in an iron meteorite": Stishovite, a high pressure polymorph of SiO2, is an exceptionally rare mineral...and has only been found in association with a few meteorite impact structures.... Clearly, the meteoritic stishovite cannot have formed by isostatic pressure prevailing in the core of the parent asteroid.... One can safely assume then that stishovite formation (in the Muonionalusta meteorite) is connected with an impact event. The glass component might have formed directly as a shock melt....

A 2010 study reported the lead isotope dating in the Muonionalusta meteorite and concluded the stishovite was from an impact event hundreds of millions of years ago: "The presence of stishovite signifies that this meteorite was heavily shocked, possibly during the 0.4 Ga [billion years] old breakup event indicated by cosmic ray exposure...."

Jaborosa integrifolia (Argentinian shrub) by Luigi Strano

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Jaborosa integrifolia exhibits stigma-height polymorphism. There are individuals with flowers where anthers and stigma are at the same height but the rule is variable herkogamy, the most common type (75%) being that with an exerted stigma. Self- and cross-tubes did not differ in their capability to reach the ovary.There is not autogamy but mostly self-incompatibility. Fruits from controlled cross-pollination showed the highest seed set and seed viability. The nectar sugar is characterized by a similar amount of glucose and fructose, and by the absence of sucrose. Although nectar secretion was continuous throughout the life of the flower, most nectar was secreted during the first 24 h after flower opening.

La Jaborosa integrifolia è una pianta rizomatosa di origine argentina.Cresce eretta e sviluppa un corto fusto che porta una piccola chioma, in genere tondeggiante. Jaborosa integrifolia è un arbusto sempreverde

AE ELEVEN by Sakura Dragonhearth

Eleven was the Polymorph Rot Dolls&Party, Aileendoll and Wish-List donated to Den of Angels for the events for their eleventh anniversary! Isn't she cute?

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