Nanoart may be tiny, but the field just keeps on getting bigger and better all the time. Sculptor Jonty Hurwitz has created a series of miniscule sculptures that are not only invisible to the naked eye -- they're also highly detailed, created from 3D scans of people.
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The tiny objects range from less than half the width of the human hair, to around roughly the same width, and were created from scans of a human model and a 3D model of Antonio Canova's famous 1793 Cupid and Psyche sculpture.
To achieve the level of detail, the tiny sculptures were 3D printed using a photosensitive material by the Institute of Microsctructure Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, with advice provided by the Weizmann Institute of Science. A technique called multiphoton lithography was then used to create fine details in the sculptures, carving them out with a densely focused light.
The sculptures can only be viewed through an electron microscope.