The Friday Game: Microscopia – Edge Magazine.

A quick little diversion, Microscopia was apparently created in just 48hrs. It sort of simulates what it’s like to look at bacteria under a microscope. A simplistic take on it, to be sure, but it’s an interesting idea given how simple the design is.

Given that I did a fair amount of microscopy in graduate school, thankfully I had slightly more interesting things (such as Toxoplasma parasites in human cells) to look at, although of course they were mostly fixed and stained, so there was no chance of seeing them moving…this game reminds me more of the video microscopy some of my friends did, looking at wriggling bacteria on human cells.