Art in a Petri Dish

Anyone interested in pattern design should check out this petri dish art gallery, where naturally occurring biological patterns are infused with vibrant color. Prof Eshel Ben-Jacob (Tel-Aviv University) and Prof. Herbert Levine (UCSD’s National Science Foundation Frontier Center for Theoretical Biological Physics) may have aimed simply to "unravel the adaptation secrets enabling bacterial survival against all odds", but the resulting images often are beautiful little works of art.