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Robot ChipReader
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Published: 2009-03-29 19:29:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 88718; Favourites: 1646; Downloads: 2953
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More about this artwork and all my other stuff on SpaceLolliPopArts.com !3D (Anaglyph) VERSION:
UPDATED VERSION:
INTERACTIVE FLASH of this robot:
This is a digital interpretation of my diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.
Here I developed a fluorescence detector to read out special chips with thousands of tiny reaction vessels.
Well, the real ChipReader looks a little bit different than the one above but it works in the same way.
Hope you like it!
There is also an overview of the workflow:
A video of this robot you can find here: www.vimeo.com/8901082
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Comments: 299
great render, the lighting test video was well done. the flickering of the fluorescent lights switching on is a nice detail. how did you light the tubes going from the back of the head?
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hey,
there are 12 lamps (cylinders with light material applied) placed in row at the ceiling, that were switch on one after another...
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i love the reflection and the whole concept of it and especially the face omg. WELL DESERVED DD!! Congrats!
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Gotta agree. Other than that, it's still pretty amazing.
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this is really good, plenty realistic. If there's anything to criticize though, i think it's the white highlights. some areas in the highlight are too solid, as if cell-shading an anime. it pulls away from the plastic/metallic feel of this robot. other than that, AWESOME WORK!
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well, the surface behaves mirror-like - therefore there are hard edges of the reflected lights.
Further i used the maxwell render that is a unbiased render (calculate with correct physics). so this reflected light is correct.
the only thing thats not realistic is that the environment is not reflected... i experimented a lot with the reflections and i realized that reflecting everything draw off the attention from the theme itself...
i personally like the hard lights on the surface.
but thanks a lot for this professional critique
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this piocutre reminds me of the bejork video of the 2 robots, cant remember what its called but i love this picture
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Swear to God this is 100% digital art?? If so this is beyond stunning!! 0__________0
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I swear!
watch the workflow...
Thanks!
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Freakishly awesome!!
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LAZAR!!!
Congrat on the DD, this is awesome!
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i'm shocked that isn't a picture. this really does amaze me, you've put highlights in all the right places and everything.
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Thank you,
you put your comment on the right picture!
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LOL. your welcome.
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done in a great way.
but I couldn't help but feel you looked at Chris Cunningham's BjΓΆrk video a bit too much. Or try putting in something of your own a bit more.
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looks like soemthing from iRobot
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From a medical point of view I'm impressed. Is this for use with subdermal diabetes sensors, or testing chips for pathogens? Either way, impressive. Great shot too.
Oh, and the line "Well, the real ChipReader looks a little bit different than the one above but it works in the same way." is great. I assume the real on is um... slightly less easy to weild? 
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hey thanks for your very interesting comment!
yeah, i do developed a fluorescence reader robot, but i looks not like a human. it consists of two axes that move the engaged chip beneath the installed sensors.
actually it was developed to analyze SNPs (very often occurring tiny mutation of one single base within the human genome and can cause many different diseases like cancer) based on the taqman technology.
just watch the (boring) figure i made for my diploma thesis here in my gallery, to find out how this works.
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Now that is absolutely fascinating! Could such a scheme be reformulated with femtosecond laser cameras to image mRNA in action?
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No, not really.
this robot was develop to read out our self-developed polypropylene chips (each one has 1024 reaction vessels).
The task was to scan accurately a high number of sample within a short period of time. And scanning is done in series.
I think, for monitoring mRNA-processing/degradation or any other interaction events constant postion of the sample under the laser is needed.
The construction might be interesting when you want to assay one sample after the other. but mRNA is not that patient and most rna will be degradated or inactive until it can be investigated.
interesting question, did you study a scientific subject?
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I studied physics for a while, then switched out to neurobiology and psych. I have to say, I find these kind of chips absolutely fascinating from a computing perspective (1024 can't be a coincedence lol) and a medical one. That said, I have the artistic capacity of a toad, so to see someone unify such seemingly disparate talents is... impressive as hell.
Very clever setup for a chip reader btw. It must cut down the time to scan batches by a fair amount. You have to love the advances of the last decade in pretty much all of the applied sciendces.
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Oh, wow... just amazing!
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Very impressive work man! My only crit is the handlooks alittle small but other than the modelling is stunning and the attention to detail is superb!
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hey hold on man !!
this is imprassive like in real XD
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This is... Absolutely stunning D:
I could stare at this piece for days. o_o
Absolutely wonderfully done.
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Kool! AWESOME! UNGLUABLISH!!! 
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Kein problem, mein Freund!
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that is amazing, really, great work, im gonna have to chekc out ur links now.
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Thanx,
hope you like the stuff behind the links, too!
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sehr schick! inspiration von Bjork "all is full of love" von chist cunningham? sieh sehr Γ€hnlich aus...
aber respekt, sehr schΓΆnes bild!
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Verdammt sieht das echt aus, nette Arbeit. Wie lange hatΒ΄s denn gedauert?
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Danke,
das model hatte ich schon aus vorherigen arbeiten, dass ich dann angepasst hab... schwer zu sagen, wie lange das modelling allein gedauert hat. vielleicht 3 wochenenden (hab viel ausprobiert, bis ich das ergebnis hatte was ich wollte) das anschlieΓende rendern vielleicht nochmal 2 wochenende...
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This looks like "all is full of love video" of bjork...
have you seen it?
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Very good,
i love this song and video (it is maybe the best music video, i have ever seen). Therefore, it was an important inspiration. But i tried to bring in some organic compounds like the brain.
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