Russian artist makes miniature chess
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:15:44
The Russian micro-miniaturist Vladimir Aniskin has created the world’s smallest chess set, using powerful self-designed microscopes.
The whole set is the size of a match head, with a 3.5 mm by 2.5 mm board and 0.15 mm and 0.3 mm tall pieces made of gold and silver.
Aniskin says he had to work between his heartbeats to create the remarkable tiny pieces, Times Online reported.
“While working I hold my creation in my fingers. Even one’s heartbeat disturbs such minute work, so particularly delicate work has to be done between heartbeats,” he said.
The 30-year-old artist, who works at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science in Tyumen, completed the chess set over the course of six months.
Aniskin has created some 40 works, the first of which was a grain of rice inscribed with 2,027 letters.
Source: www.presstv.ir
This is an amazing person
I do my work between heart beats, liver flukes, kidney quivers, bladder leaks, eye twitches, and gastric colonic spasms.
I am amazing too.