Movie Out of Atoms

Time: "IBM Makes a Movie Out of Atoms"



"IBM’s new cartoon -- yes, IBM made a cartoon -- is remarkable. It was produced at IBM Research’s Almaden Research Center in Northern California, by a bunch of scientists who used a scanning tunneling microscope as their animation tool. The pixels are individual atoms, nudged into place to form a picture. (The Guinness folks have certified this as the smallest movie ever made.)"