This is the most endearingly foreign affair you ’ll watch all day . Andrew Quitmeyer , a PhD student at Georgia Tech , has alerted us to his ready to hand television tutorial on painting ants for scientific experiments . If you ever need to open an ink parlor for a six - legged business , this is your huckleberry .
Those reader with vise - similar memories may rememberAndrew’sprevious project , the elephantine duck head that vomits candy at children . Here ’s how Andrew describe his present pursuance to io9 :
https://gizmodo.com/a-giant-duck-head-regurgitates-candy-at-happy-children-5769918
Here ’s a video recording I made as a design speculation for an robotic ant painting gadget that I am work on . This video works as an instructional video for paint ant that also demonstrates trouble faced by social insect scientists [ … ] Also it ’s just pretty weird to see how scientist have to actually paint with short midget paintbrush and microscopes onto ants .
I ca n’t wait to see what his “ automatic ant picture machine ” looks like . I ’m picturing a carwash the size of it of a matchbox . Sorry , all you artisanal formic body painters , the marching of engineering science stops for no one .
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