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I misread this as "the best microcopy" and thought it'd be a potentially-interesting UX piece.

Still, some amazing images here. Conceptually, it reminds me of the bacterial imagery used in the movie The Fountain for many of its deep space visual effects (to avoid the cost of CGI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountain#Visual_effects

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The effects (by a team lead by Douglas Trumbull) for the amazing creation sequence in The Tree of Life were also partly analog, using fluid dynamics: http://nofilmschool.com/2013/05/microscopic-cosmic-organic-v...

Whole sequence: https://youtu.be/9EEIeH7ymwA

> it reminds me of the bacterial imagery used in the movie The Fountain

That's amazing! I adore The Fountain, but I had no idea that's how they did the special effects. I did notice they were 'otherworldly' and quite unlike anything I'd seen before.

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