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Inner beauty: X-rays expose flowers, animals and more
Arie van't Riet specialized in X-rays for hospitals, when he stumbled across an interesting form of art.
Inner beauty: X-ray art exposes flowers, animals and more
Dutch physicist Arie van't Riet specialized in low energy X-rays in hospitals when he stumbled across an interesting form of art.
According to a recent TED talk, a colleague asked him to make an X-ray of one of his paintings. After seeing the interesting results, Arie van't Riet wanted to X-ray something even thinner. "I started with a bouquet of tulips," he said in the TED talk. "Some people told me that's art and I became an artist."
After creating that piece, he started to experiment with a variety of creatures and different scenes, looking to capture nature's beauty.
"I sampled a lot of animals that I can use in my X-ray images," he said. "I take a number of plants with flowers, I take a couple of animals, lizards, I put them all together in one composition."
Take a look at his unique, beautiful collection.
