The scene was created entirely by hand, except for the body of the insect-thing, done in windows blob sculptor. The grid is a material map, the wings of the insect are image maps as is its body. The lenses on the camera-like-thing are both reflective and refractive. The 'point' of this picture is that science occasionaly misses the point. Only the shadow of the insect is measured against the grid. The insect is killed in the process of being examined. But there is redemption fo science, since the camera is as beautiful as the thing it looks at. zctyjhp@ts.bcc.ac.uk