Nature visible only digitally
Yasuhiro Iba, Aya Kubota, Yusuke Takeda, Mehmet Oğuz Derin, Shin Ikegami, Jörg Mutterlose, Takahiro Harada, Tomonori Takeuchi, Kazuki Tainaka · Patterns · 2025
Recent progress in imaging technology has enabled paleontologists to visualize all fossils inside solid rocks. Consequently, we can now imagine the natural worlds hidden not only inside our research materials but also within the opaque solids of everyday life. Here, we introduce the unique visual-spatial worlds that emerge from inside rocks and the creativity this discovery fosters.