I wanted to show you something....
Hey all, I wanted to show you something which involved my work that got me really excited this week. If you're into mind games, vision tricks, this is a pretty good application of this. If you know anything about 3D or those magic eye things, this is something related to that.
First, here is a picture of the enzyme I'm working with: it's a cellulose degrading enzyme that we are trying to mutate to break down plant matter better into sugars and ultimately into ethanol. The ethanol in then used as fuel in replacement of gasoline, a cleaner alternative to our environment.
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At first, you may think it's a double image that I had mistakenly posted twice, but they are ever so slightly different. If you place your face about ~2 1/2 feet from your screen and center yourself between the two molecules and cross your eyes, you will see a three dimensional image of the same molecule.
Normally, when you cross your eyes, you will see double. When you cross your eyes in front of these images, a third image will appear in the middle with 3D shape. Here are a few others that I found on the net.
(Taken from http://www.netsci.org/Science/Cheminform/feature01.html)
And finally, one that doesn't involve molecular models:
(taken from the Swiss PDB viewer site)
First, here is a picture of the enzyme I'm working with: it's a cellulose degrading enzyme that we are trying to mutate to break down plant matter better into sugars and ultimately into ethanol. The ethanol in then used as fuel in replacement of gasoline, a cleaner alternative to our environment.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
At first, you may think it's a double image that I had mistakenly posted twice, but they are ever so slightly different. If you place your face about ~2 1/2 feet from your screen and center yourself between the two molecules and cross your eyes, you will see a three dimensional image of the same molecule.
Normally, when you cross your eyes, you will see double. When you cross your eyes in front of these images, a third image will appear in the middle with 3D shape. Here are a few others that I found on the net.
(Taken from http://www.netsci.org/Science/Cheminform/feature01.html)
And finally, one that doesn't involve molecular models:
(taken from the Swiss PDB viewer site)