Figures on the sand grains

Incredible pictures on tiny grain of sand from the Vik Muniz





A series of drawings of ancient castles, engraved on microscopic grits - a complete antithesis of the usual childhood sand castles.



During the four years of testing various technologies mikrogravirovki.
For example, the laser is too often destroy soft grains or, on the contrary, gave no discernible image sat- more solid. As a result, the master stood on the etching technique of the focused ion beam (FIB), which is often used to work with chips.