Photomicrography Reveals The World’s Smallest Wonders

Futuristic Maze

This image looks like a still shot of a maze from some kind of futuristic movie. (Remember Tron?) Or is it a bird’s eye view of a wild funhouse? Or… it could very well be a layout for the most amazing game of laser tag. In actuality, it is the surface of a microchip, as a 3D reconstruction, 500 times magnified. The photomicrographer is Alfred Pasieka from Germany. He took a number of similar photomicrographs of microchips, many of which are currently being sold as prints and posters (which very may well be hanging in a dorm room).