Picasso Rewritable Halobacterium Salinarum Emulsion

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I read picasso inspired from a broken camera and lens to make his one of the most important drawings of his lifetime. He was using a camera and lens broken and take parallel distortion images.

BUT one of the most interesting thing , his final image being taken from his camera lens fungus after 40 years of that camera being found.

One museum expert found fungus on the lens and fungus being scanned and his last known photograph developed. Its about the bacteriorhodopsin found in the fungus ....

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You can start to grow your halobacterium salinarium from salted codfish.

9118 <-- CCM 2148 <-- I. Dundas 1.
Accessioned in 1994.
=CCM 2148. CCM Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Halobacterium salinarium.
Category: Archaea.
Medium: 168; Temperature: 37°C; Rehydration fluid: 307.
Source: Salted codfish.
Numerical taxonomy: [3282].
Quinone: MK-8, MK-8(H2) [2070].
DNA-DNA relatedness: [3366].
Other taxonomic data: Polyamine [4558]; Sensitivity to antibiotics [3649]; Sensitivity of ribosome to antibiotics [3641,3699].

Quite interesting, recently there were some photographic images produced using bacteria. May be they are similar to this method?

How about sensitivity, exposure times, are there any visuals?

Selam Serdar,

I am surfing the internet for 15 years and I only found that an New York High School was experimenting to make these plates. I dont know how we would see an image from these plates but may be ultraviolet light reveals something. The plus side is the ability to record immense amount of information with that biology. Bacteriorhodopsin is the fastest working data recording and data processing medium also. Soviets makes radars to instantly track and identify the enemy with bacteriorhodopsin volumetric processors. Some say F22 have that kind of radar processors in their electronics . It is the best data recording medium in the world.

Photography with that medium is the easiest thing you can do. And we can make electronic sensors with that medium also. Large sensors or linear array sensors.

If picasso recorded an image on fungus at 1917 and we reveal it at 2013 , its strong and its a fast working ,camera speed medium also.

I am thinking to follow molecular biology classes at istanbul from fatih university and you can learn more at bilkent.

I am going to university next week to collect course notes of first year from class 2 students. May be I can find a professor to ask questions.

Take care,

Umut

Its speed is same or faster than hologaphic plates. Volumetric holography with proteins would reveal lots of information on google.

Herzeleid said:

Quite interesting, recently there were some photographic images produced suing bacteria.

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http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2005/11/5347/scientists-engineer-bacteria-create-living-photographs

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/livingfilm/

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7067/abs/nature04405.html


monochromatic-light induced breed of bacteria :
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3053042/

Thank you AgX. These are different , may be forests take images of the sky upfront of them. That is taking images with living organism , its like photosynthesis of growth. Bacteriorhodopsin is dead and an protein.

AgX said:

Dead Link Removed

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2005/11/5347/scientists-engineer-bacteria-create-living-photographs

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/livingfilm/

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7067/abs/nature04405.html


monochromatic-light induced breed of bacteria :
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3053042/

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I was referring to the images in the article in popsci.
Thanks for the links.

To put that protein in gelatin and coat a 35mm film and put in the camera an weak red laser light which will emit light when the shutter closing is a heartwarming technology. Scientists grow that solution in the coca cola bottles.

Image sensing and processing by a bacteriorhodopsin-based artificial photoreceptor
Tsutomu Miyasaka and Koichi Koyama »View Author Affiliations

Applied Optics, Vol. 32, Issue 31, pp. 6371-6379 (1993)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.32.006371

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Abstract
Sensing and processing of optical information have been conducted with a unique bioelectronic image sensor that immobilizes bacteriorhodopsin (bR) as a photosensitive retinal protein. A thin film of bR-containing purple membranes was coated on a two-dimensional pixel array of electrodes and was made into a junction with an electrolyte gel layer having a counterelectrode to form an artificial photoreceptor. Photocurrent signals from each pixel showed a differential responsivity to light intensity, intrinsic to this liquid-junction photocell. Images detected and processed by the bR-based artificial photoreceptor were simultaneously displayed on a light-emitting-diode monitor panel through parallel signal-transmission circuitry. The experiment revealed that the photoreceptor is, as a retina model, capable of selectively detecting motion of images in real time and of performing vectorial extraction of their edge components, similar to the visual processing function of biological photoreceptors.

© 1993 Optical Society of America

I am having mile with the idea, I learned Halobacterium sold in bottles as living organism for 10 dollar per test tube. I have to find a distributor in Turkey who could sell me that tube without killing the insiders. 35 celcius degrees and saline water and sunlight are enough to keep it alive and grow. I looked to bacteriorhodopsin prices and 1 miligram costs 130 euros. I contacted with a molecular biology department professor and waiting answer to mix the organism with yellow inkjet ink and possibility to lock the image with red led and delete it with blue led and resolution assumption from the inkjetted medium. I will call her in one hour and hoping to get a positive answer and help.

Umut