The Atomium was built for the 1958 Brussels Expo as an emblem of scientific progress. The gigantic monument represents an atomic lattice of iron crystals, magnified one hundred sixty-five billion times.
In Fourth Axis, camera moves inside the actual structure cause a virtual nanoskeleton to grow, bringing the Atomium's three-dimensional elements into a new alignment along an infinite vector.
Animation by Casper McElwee
SOUVENIR from the ATOMIUM, 1999
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