{"id":1031,"date":"2015-08-01T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/?page_id=1031"},"modified":"2015-08-01T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T01:59:53","slug":"triangular-diatom-%e4%b8%89%e8%a7%92%e7%8f%aa%e8%97%bb%ef%bc%88%e3%81%91%e3%81%84%e3%81%9d%e3%81%86%ef%bc%89","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/?page_id=1031","title":{"rendered":"Triangular Diatom \u4e09\u89d2\u73ea\u85fb\uff08\u3051\u3044\u305d\u3046\uff09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-from-above-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-from-above-web-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Diatom from above web\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-from-above-web-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-from-above-web-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-from-above-web-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-from-side.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-from-side-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Diatom from side\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-from-side-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-from-side-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-from-side-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Open-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1035\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Open-box-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Diatom Open box\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Open-box-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Open-box-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Open-box-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-top-and-bottom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1036\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-top-and-bottom-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Diatom top and bottom\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-top-and-bottom-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-top-and-bottom-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-top-and-bottom-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-bottom-oblique.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-bottom-oblique-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Diatom bottom oblique\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-bottom-oblique-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-bottom-oblique-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-bottom-oblique-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above\u00a0is the finished work. Below are the stages of creation.<\/p>\n<p>I found a delightful diatom called Triceratium on the internet. Here is one link to a microscope image:\u00a0<a title=\"Triceratium microscope image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.photomacrography.net\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=25260&amp;view=next&amp;sid=620e22252f5b08ff12fbbd26886ccb36\">http:\/\/www.photomacrography.net\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=25260&amp;view=next&amp;sid=620e22252f5b08ff12fbbd26886ccb36<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Diatoms are unicellular algae\u00a0with chloroplasts for\u00a0photosynthesis. They live in water. The cell is enclosed in a silica shell with an upper and a lower half like a shoebox with a lid. The holes allow exchange of gases and wastes. I think God loves diatoms because there are so many species and they are beautiful. More general information may be found at\u00a0<a title=\"Diatom facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/topic\/Diatoms.aspx\">http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/topic\/Diatoms.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I usually try to find a simple shape to fit the creature. At first I considered a triangular prism. Then I thought to add &#8216;knobs&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequence of events for the bottom part minus the knobs.\u00a0First\u00a0I devised the net.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Free-net-bottom-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1037\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Free-net-bottom-web-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"Diatom Free net bottom web\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Free-net-bottom-web-300x261.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Free-net-bottom-web-1024x892.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Free-net-bottom-web-624x544.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next I added the colour pattern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Colour-Patterned-Bottom-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1038\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Colour-Patterned-Bottom-web-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"Diatom Colour Patterned Bottom web\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Colour-Patterned-Bottom-web-300x265.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Colour-Patterned-Bottom-web-1024x903.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Colour-Patterned-Bottom-web-624x550.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make things really interesting I overlaid a number pattern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Number-Patterned-Bottom-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1039\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Number-Patterned-Bottom-web-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"Diatom Number Patterned Bottom web\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Number-Patterned-Bottom-web-300x260.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Number-Patterned-Bottom-web-1024x889.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Number-Patterned-Bottom-web-624x542.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I applied colours one at a time to each part of the net to achieve this result.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Bottom-ready-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1040\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Bottom-ready-web-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"Diatom Painted Bottom ready web\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Bottom-ready-web-300x249.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Bottom-ready-web-1024x848.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Bottom-ready-web-624x517.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Top-ready-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Top-ready-web-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"Diatom Painted Top ready web\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Top-ready-web-300x262.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Top-ready-web-1024x894.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Top-ready-web-624x545.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Knobs-ready-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Knobs-ready-web-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"Diatom Painted Knobs ready web\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Knobs-ready-web-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Knobs-ready-web-1024x802.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Diatom-Painted-Knobs-ready-web-624x489.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above coloured nets have also been cleaned up a bit using Photoshop, but the colours have not been adjusted.<\/p>\n<p>I cut out and assembled the diatom from these nets. The knobs are definitely the trickiest part to assemble.<\/p>\n<p>The final result can be a table\u00a0decoration or a gift box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above\u00a0is the finished work. Below are the stages of creation. I found a delightful diatom called Triceratium on the internet. Here is one link to a microscope image:\u00a0http:\/\/www.photomacrography.net\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=25260&amp;view=next&amp;sid=620e22252f5b08ff12fbbd26886ccb36. Diatoms are unicellular algae\u00a0with chloroplasts for\u00a0photosynthesis. They live in water. The cell is enclosed in a silica shell with an upper and a lower half like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1057,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1031\/revisions\/1066"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}