Flower Blueprints!

[PayDay]

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/art...s/?utm_source=twitter&utm_handle=@smithsonian

this is a really cool thing from our National Museum + Japan
Culture is fun::

In a project he calls “Inorganic flora,” the 29-year-old Japanese artist diagrams flowers. He buys his specimens—sweetpeas (Lathyrus odoratus*L.*, Asiatic dayflowers (Commelina communis*L.) and sulfur cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus*Cav.), to name a few—from flower stands or collects them from the roadside. Murayama carefully dissects each flower, removing its petals, anther, stigma and ovaries with a scalpel. He studies the separate parts of the flower under a magnifying glass and then sketches and photographs them.Using 3D computer graphics software, the artist then creates models of the full blossom as well as of the stigma,*sepals and other parts of the bloom.*He cleans up his composition in Photoshop and adds measurements and annotations in Illustrator...

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/files/2013/05/Macoto-Murayama-Lathyrus-odoratus-side-view.jpg