The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai is hosting ~70 school students as part of an 8 day Summer School Students Workshop 2018.
This week the students assembled Foldscopes:
We had just about enough time to try out our Foldscopes with various slides!
Here’s an ant stuck in a slide:
Here’s some stomata from a leaf:
Here’s a slide of some green stuff (possibly lichen or moss?)
Here’s what a blade of grass looks like under a Foldscope:
Finally, here’s my favorite Foldscope specimen: pollen! Do you know which flower this is from?
Stay tuned for our next post from #IMScSSSW2018 on pollen…
Absolutely beautiful work. I am amazed to see the pollen slide.
It would be fascinating to connect the microscopic patterns with mathematical ideas – you could start with crystallization.
http://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=30241
cheers
manu