polymorph photos on Flickr

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

Aragonite by Orbital Joe

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Aragonite is the second most common polymorph of natural calcium carbonate (the most common is Calcite.)

Tazouta Mine, Sefrou, Atlas Mts, Morocco

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?

Partially devitrified rhyolitic obsidian with lithophysae (Roaring Mountain Member, Plateau Rhyolite, Upper Pleistocene, ~59 ka; Obsidian Cliff, Yellowstone, Wyoming, USA) 2 by James St. John

Obsidian in the Pleistocene of Wyoming, USA.

Obsidian is a glassy-textured, extrusive igneous rock. Glassy-textured rocks have no crystals at all. They form by very rapid cooling of lava or by cooling of high-viscosity lava. Most obsidians form by the latter. Obsidian can be felsic, intermediate, mafic, or alkaline in chemistry. Most are felsic to intermediate.

A famous locality in North America is Obsidian Cliff at Yellowstone, Wyoming. It is a Pleistocene-aged lava flow with the chemistry of rhyolite (= a light-colored, felsic, aphanitic, extrusive igneous rock). The cliff itself shows columnar jointing. The rocks principally range from aphyric rhyolitic obsidian to partially devitrified rhyolitic obsidian. Lithophysae are sometimes present. Extremely small, microscopic crystals are present - they can be seen in thin sections. Some samples are reported to have small olivine phenocrysts. Small clusters of crystals, composed of plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, and olivine, are sometimes present.

Many of the whitish-colored spots and bands running through most Obsidian Cliff rock samples are areas of devitrification. Glass is unstable on geologic times scales and it slowly crystallizes. The light-colored spots and bands are now non-glassy. Spotted, partially devitrified obsidian is known by the rockhound term "snowflake obsidian" (see: www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/16561606417). The spots are composed of silica (SiO2), but are not quartz. Rather, they are composed of a polymorph of quartz - cristobalite.

The subrounded cavities are lithophysae - they formed before the rock completely solidified. The original lava flow had some subspherical structures known as spherulites, composed of glassy to cryptocrystalline material (many felsic extrusive igneous rocks have these). Expanding gases in the spherulites destroyed this material, resulting in partially empty spaces.

Stratigraphy: Roaring Mountain Member, Plateau Rhyolite, Upper Pleistocene, ~59 ka

Locality: loose boulder near the base of Obsidian Cliff, Yellowstone National Park, northwestern Wyoming, USA

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Age & some lithologic info. from:

Wooton (2010) - Age and Petrogenesis of the Roaring Mountain Rhyolites, Yellowstone Volcanic Field, Wyoming. M.S. thesis. University of Nevada at Las Vegas. 296 pp.

Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLP) aka Under the Deck by mikepoggs

Back of Time by Matthew Wells

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Bargara - Loggerhead Turtle Laying Eggs at Archies Beach by GavGTP

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Once laid the Turtle Eggs are moved to a secure enclosure for hatching. Volunteers monitor the beaches for turtles laying then retrieve the eggs and place them in a caged off enclosure a few meters away. They also record the details of the turtles.

The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is a species of oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world. It is a marine reptile, belonging to the family Cheloniidae. The average loggerhead measures around 90 cm (35 in) in carapace length when fully grown. The adult loggerhead sea turtle weighs approximately 135 kg (298 lb), with the largest specimens weighing in at more than 450 kg (1,000 lb). The skin ranges from yellow to brown in color, and the shell is typically reddish brown. No external differences in sex are seen until the turtle becomes an adult, the most obvious difference being the adult males have thicker tails and shorter plastrons (lower shells) than the females.

The loggerhead sea turtle is found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. It spends most of its life in saltwater and estuarine habitats, with females briefly coming ashore to lay eggs. The loggerhead sea turtle has a low reproductive rate; females lay an average of four egg clutches and then become quiescent, producing no eggs for two to three years. The loggerhead reaches sexual maturity within 17–33 years and has a lifespan of 47–67 years.

The loggerhead sea turtle is omnivorous, feeding mainly on bottom-dwelling invertebrates. Its large and powerful jaws serve as an effective tool for dismantling its prey. Young loggerheads are exploited by numerous predators; the eggs are especially vulnerable to terrestrial organisms. Once the turtles reach adulthood, their formidable size limits predation to large marine animals, such as large sharks.

The loggerhead sea turtle has a cosmopolitan distribution, nesting over the broadest geographical range of any sea turtle. It inhabits the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea.

In the Atlantic Ocean, the greatest concentration of loggerheads is along the southeastern coast of North America and in the Gulf of Mexico. Very few loggerheads are found along the European and African coastlines. Florida is the most popular nesting site, with more than 67,000 nests built per year. Nesting extends as far north as Virginia, as far south as Brazil, and as far east as the Cape Verde Islands. The Cape Verde Islands are the only significant nesting site on the eastern side of the Atlantic. Loggerheads found in the Atlantic Ocean feed from Canada to Brazil.

In the Indian Ocean, loggerheads feed along the coastlines of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and in the Arabian Sea. Along the African coastline, loggerheads nest from Mozambique's Bazaruto Archipelago to South Africa's St Lucia estuary. The largest Indian Ocean nesting site is Oman, on the Arabian Peninsula, which hosts around 15,000 nests, giving it the second largest nesting population of loggerheads in the world. Western Australia is another notable nesting area, with 1,000–2,000 nests per year.

Pacific loggerheads live in temperate to tropical regions. They forage in the East China Sea, the southwestern Pacific, and along the Baja California Peninsula. Eastern Australia and Japan are the major nesting areas, with the Great Barrier Reef deemed an important nesting area. Pacific loggerheads occasionally nest in Vanuatu and Tokelau. Yakushima Island is the most important site, with three nesting grounds visited by 40% of all nearby loggerheads. After nesting, females often find homes in the East China Sea, while the Kuroshio Current Extension's Bifurcation region provides important juvenile foraging areas. Eastern Pacific populations are concentrated off the coast of Baja California, where upwelling provides rich feeding grounds for juvenile turtles and subadults. Nesting sites along the eastern Pacific Basin are rare. mtDNA sequence polymorphism analysis and tracking studies suggest 95% of the population along the coast of the Americas hatch on the Japanese Islands in the western Pacific. The turtles are transported by the prevailing currents across the full length of the northern Pacific, one of the longest migration routes of any marine animal. The return journey to the natal beaches in Japan has been long suspected, although the trip would cross unproductive clear water with few feeding opportunities. Evidence of a return journey came from an adult female loggerhead named Adelita, which in 1996, equipped with a satellite tracking device, made the 14,500 km (9,000 mi) trip from Mexico across the Pacific. Adelita was the first animal of any kind ever tracked across an ocean basin.

The Mediterranean Sea is a nursery for juveniles, as well as a common place for adults in the spring and summer months. Almost 45% of the Mediterranean juvenile population has migrated from the Atlantic. Loggerheads feed in the Alboran Sea and the Adriatic Sea, with tens of thousands of specimens (mainly sub-adult) seasonally present in the North-Eastern portion of the latter, above all in the area of the Po Delta. Greece is the most popular nesting site along the Mediterranean, with more than 3,000 nests per year. Zakynthos hosts the largest Mediterranean nesting with the second one being in Kyparissia Bay. Because of this, Greek authorities do not allow planes to take off or land at night in Zakynthos due to the nesting turtles. In addition to the Greek coast, the coastlines of Cyprus and Turkey are also common nesting sites.

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The Swashbuckler in Spitalfields Market by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

No. 53/56: Morph Target by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Neuer Gedanke by Kai C. Schwarzer

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"Polymorph", 2010 (Alice Gruhle)

AMD Code Analyst by GameDev .net

Using Abstraction to Optimize Runtime Polymorphism

FORET // VINCENT ROUMAGNAC - GUILLAUME TOUMANIAN by Doxart

PHM / PROJETS HORS LES MURS présente

À l'Agence AEM/ARCHITECTURE ET ÉCOLOGIE MÊLÉES

Et avec le soutien des Galeries / Fabrice Galvani -Toulouse / Doxart contemporain - Lyon

www.galeriefabricegalvani.com/

doxart.fr/

FORÊT

Guillaume TOUMANIAN / peintures

Vincent ROUMAGNAC / installation

VERNISSAGE LE MERCREDI 6 MAI 2009 à partir de 18H30

(et à partir du 07/05 uniquement sur RDV)

À l'agence AEM / 86 cours Victor Hugo 33000 BORDEAUX / parking: V. Hugo - tram.: Pte de Bourgogne

information, contact, confirmation présence vernissage:

phm.bordeaux@gmail.com

0610120052

Dialogue

FORÊT est un dialogue autour de la représentation d’ un paysage forestier entre propositions picturales

(Toumanian) et construction virtuelle réifiée (Roumagnac).Les deux artistes, rencontrés en 2006 lors d’

une exposition collective, nous invitent ici à croiser deux "points de vue" sur la restitution formelle

de la mémoire d’un paysage (en l’occurence celui symbolique de la forêt). Qu’est ce donc que cela : une

forêt ? En allant et venant du pigment au pixel, de la transposition picturale traditionnelle à la scru-

tation numérique contemporaine, de la métaphore de la toile à la reconstruction génétique logiciellement

assistée, il semble que ce soit autre chose qui se tisse qu’une simple juxtaposition de perception singu-

lière ou de positionnement esthétique péremptoire et définitif. Ce qui se joue en réalité et s’appréhende

par nos sens, nos esprits et nos mémoires,c’est la tension réjouissante d’un dialogue entre deux systèmes

formels de représentations (parmi de nombreux autres récits possibles…)-que la doxa voudrait trop rapide-

ment opposer et condamner à une interexclusion aussi expéditive que douteuse (tradition Vs modernité, ou

réalité Vs virtualité, ou encore poésie Vs technologie,les vieux débats…),qui dans leur réflexion ouvrent

un champ des possibles,celui d’une approche,polymorphe et multiple à la fois,de la notion-même de paysage.

FORÊT en ce croisement souhaite exclure toute posture de suffrage,de hiérarchie de valeur dans la matière,

de gradation qualitative de la représentation, mais bien envisager l’ appréhension d’un paysage comme une

simultanéité d’essences, d’histoires, de modèles et de mémoires.

À l’heure des préoccupations écologiques globales et d’une réflexion induite autour d’une redéfinition des

relations de l’individu à l’espace et à ses tentatives de nouvelles constructions, Toumanian et Roumagnac,

nous proposent ainsi de réfléchir, à partir de leurs possibles représentations paysagères, une définition

contemporaine du paysage.

PICT0032 by Philipp

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UCL Museums and Public Relations Away Day by Institute of Making

A couple of weeks ago Museums and Public relations department had an away day at the Institute of Making.

Pewter casting with cuttlefish.

polymorph-internal-1 by John Pallister

While replacing a scratchy pot I took a couple of shots of the interior of my Polymorph. The replacement pot I used was

Digi-Key part no. CT2265-ND. The shaft was 3mm too short, but other than that it seemed identical.

DSCN3435 by Priyamvada Athale

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Danaid eggfly (Female)

Males are blackish with distinctive white spots that are fringed in blue

Envers du décor 2023 : Maëva Longvert – Compagnie Le Polymorphe by Palais de la Porte Dorée

Photos : Anne Volery © Palais de la Porte Dorée

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...

Looking After the Ocean by Ali Elly by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

No. 50/56: Stay Frosty by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Morpheby by Wetherby Prep by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Peltaea polymorpha (A. St.-Hil.) by Arystene Nicodemo

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Malvacea. Registro Parque Nacional Serra da Canastra-MG

Agatized coral (Tertiary; Withlacoochee River, Georgia, USA) 12 by James St. John

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Agatized coral from the Tertiary of Georgia, USA.

Parts of Georgia and Florida are known for having geodized, agatized corals. The original coral skeletons were composed of aragonite (CaCO3, calcium carbonate), a polymorph of calcite. The fossil corals have since been silicified and geodized, resulting in chalcedony-lined cavities / vugs.

Stratigraphy: supposedly from marine sedimentary rocks in the Hawthorn Group, Tertiary

Locality: undisclosed / unrecorded site attributed to the Withlacoochee River, near the Georgia-Florida border, far-southern Georgia, USA

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Info. at:

www.apalachee-minerals.com/agatizedcoral1

Anthodites (Skyline Caverns, Front Royal, Virginia, USA) 18 by James St. John

Anthodites in a cave in Virginia, USA.

"Cave formations" in caves are technically called speleothem. Most speleothem is composed of travertine, a crystalline-textured chemical sedimentary rock composed of calcite (CaCO3). Travertine forms in most caves and at some springs by precipitation of crystals from water. Travertine speleothem occurs in a wide variety of forms. The most common variety of travertine speleothem is dripstone, which forms by the action of dripping water. The second-most common type of travertine speleothem is flowstone, which forms by precipitation of crystals from relatively thin films of flowing water. Flowstone typically has the appearance of a frozen waterfalls.

Shown above are anthodites, a scarce variety of speleothem that was first described from this very cave - Skyline Caverns in Virginia. Anthodites are radiating clusters of quill-like to slightly vermiform structures. Individual anthodite quills are hollow. Mineral analysis by White (1994) has shown that they are composed of aragonite (CaCO3), which is a polymorph of calcite. Some have recrystallized to calcite. The anthodites of Skyline Caverns were originally in sealed chambers in a mostly-sediment filled cave passage. During tourist trail construction, workers dug out sediments and encountered small chambers having common anthodites. They were subsequently named and described in the literature in 1949. The anthodite-bearing chambers were unusual in having near-vacuum conditions. Upon opening one chamber, a worker's hat was sucked in by the low air pressure.

When pure calcium carbonate, anthodites are white-colored. The yellows and browns seen above are from iron oxides. The green coloration is from algae that grows in tourist trail lighting.

Skyline Caverns is developed in structurally tilted carbonates (mixed dolostones and limestones) of the Rockdale Run Formation (Beekmantown Group, Lower Ordovician).

Locality: Skyline Caverns, Front Royal, central Warren County, northern Virginia, USA

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Reference cited:

White (1994) - The anthodites from Skyline Caverns, Virginia: the type locality. National Speleological Society Bulletin (Journal of Caves and Karst Studies) 56: 23-26.

Spherulitic obsidian (Medicine Lake Highlands, California, USA) 1 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

No. 44/56: Looking After the Ocean by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

DSCN4755.Micropipetting.DanWhalen,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 15 - Human VNTR Polymorphism

Aragonite (possibly from Spain) 1 by James St. John

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A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 6100 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.

The carbonate minerals all contain one or more carbonate (CO3-2) anions.

Aragonite has the same chemistry as calcite - it is calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Why is it a different mineral? Aragonite has a different molecular structure - the atoms are packed differently. Different minerals having the same chemical formula are called polymorphs (another good example is graphite & diamond - both C).

The difference in atomic-level packing between calcite and aragonite can be seen at the level of mineral hand samples. Aragonite forms crystals in the orthorhombic class. Many aragonite crystals are acicular (needle-like). Many aragonites form pseudohexagonal crystals, the result of 6 orthorhombic prisms growing parallel to each other. The specimen seen here is a side view of a cyclic-twinned, pseudohexagonal aragonite mass.

Aragonite is slightly harder than calcite, at H=3.5 to 4, occurs in many colors, and easily bubbles in acid. Aragonite is a little bit heavier than calcite, due to closer packing of atoms.

Most modern seashells & coral skeletons are composed of the aragonite. Whitish-colored lime sand beaches in the world are aragonitic. Occasionally, "whitings" are seen in shallow, warm ocean environments. Whitings (cloudy, milky seawater) turn out to be loaded with tiny hair-like needles of aragonite.

In the rock record, aragonitic or aragonite-rich sediments convert to calcite over time. Cenozoic-aged carbonate sedimentary rocks are often aragonitic. Mesozoic- and Paleozoic-aged carbonates are almost always calcitic. Many ancient fossils have had their aragonitic shells dissolved away. Ancient shells that were originally calcitic are often still well preserved.

Locality: unrecorded / undisclosed, but possibly from Spain

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Photo gallery of aragonite:

www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=307

Scarlet Mormon (papilio rumanzovia) by Matthew Hancox

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This striking swallowtail actually has no tails at all, however like other similar mormon butterflies they originated in Southern Asia and Australia. Caterpillar host plants are most likely Rutaceae.

The origins of giving common English names to organisms, particularly butterflies for tropical species started in India around the mid 19th century ... The naming of Mormons evolved slowly. I think the first to get such a name was the Common Mormon (Papilio polytes), because it had three different females, a fact that could only have been observed in the field, and this they did in India. The name obviously reflected the ... Mormon sect in America, which as we know, practiced polygamy. Another school of thought as to why these 3 species are dubbed “Mormon”: The Scarlet Mormon (Papilio rumanzovia), Great Mormon (Papilio memnon) and Common Mormon (Papilio polytes) are all beautifully colored in black and white, often with red markings. The high contrast patterns along with their relatively large size cause members of these species to standout to visitors of the butterfly exhibit. Furthermore, Butterfly Wing visitors will think they are seeing more species than they actually are, because each of the Mormons is sexually dimorphic (males and females differ) as well as polymorphic (more than one wing pattern). These polymorphisms were first described nearly a century and a half ago.

Source: davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/5058/

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

Polymorph

IMG_1900 by - Hob -

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Now it's not so loose. Hose clips are great. It'll still wobble a bit, but the polymorph sorts that out.

Our party boldly wanders into the hall by Anca Mosoiu

We figured that if we disguised two of us as hill giants (because that's all the polymorph spells we had), we could take some others of our party into the hall as our prisoners, make friends with the hill giants, and then ensorcel their leader to cease the awful war of aggression against the elves.

It all went well at first. Taranis and Kaela, the party's mage and psionic, were transformed into male hill giants. We left two of our best fighters to infliltrate the smoky rafters of the hall. We took our less agile companions in as prisoners, loosely bound.

The hill giant hazing ritual was going well. Fists were flying good-naturedly, and we were just about to be inducted into the hill giant group, where Taranis could get close enough to the leader. Unfortunately, Cerulean recognized Celog, and went for him. The elf flew into a panic at being approached by a 17-foot Storm giant. Yuri, who held no great love for old Cerulean, whipped out a powerful rod that transformed his bones to jelly, killing Cerulean instantly.

All hell broke loose after that. Taranis and Kaela quickly set off a few fireballs, killing most of the hill giants, but not denting the stone giants lurking at the other end of the room. Nosnra rallied his men into a retreat to their underground caves, and our party was left to wander the compound before it burned to the ground from all the fireballs.

Whow knows what will happen next time, on Bobbin's Angels?

Rock Star! in Leadenhall Market by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Wheelie by Lena Kibbler by Matthew Wells

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The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Cyborg Morph & George Peabody by Matthew Wells

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

Lots more Polymorph fun

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

An amazing Peacock made of Polymorph

Polymorphism by pseudacris

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Plethodon vehiculum, Clatsop County, Oregon. Found under a single board.

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...

Bright lights shining by Karsten Schmidt

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Donceliña de Gené (Ischnura genei) by Iago Sanmartín Villar

Femias inmaduras. Infuscans (esquerda) e androcroma (dereita).

"Infuscans (left) and androchrome (right) inmature females."

Clidemia hirta on Ohia by Scot Nelson

Koster's curse

Fulgurite (Sahara Dune Field, Morocco) 12 by James St. John

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Fulgurite from Morocco.

Fulgurites are glassy to vesicular, tubular to branching masses caused by lightning striking the ground (often unconsolidated materials such as sand or soil). If the target materials are silica-rich (SiO2 - quartz), then the fulgurites will be composed of lechatelierite, a form of amorphous silica. The lechatelierite in older fulgurites will have converted to cristobalite or tridymite, which are crystalline polymorphs of quartz.

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Info. from label:

Fulgurites form when a lightning bolt strikes the Earth's surface, fusing the material into a glass tube, sometimes with a hollow center. When lightning strikes sandy soil, the air and moisture in the sand are rapidly heated. Quartz sand melts at a temperature of roughly 1600° Celsius to 2000° Celsius, depending on the moisture content. The name comes from the Latin "fulgur", for lightning.

These are Type 1 fulgurites, which form in sand as tubular structures, sometimes with the central opening collapsed, and frequently coated with sand.

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Locality: undisclosed site in the Sahara Dune Field, Morocco, northwestern Africa

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Info. at:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgurite

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