The extreme xerophilic fungus Aspergillus restrictus is used as a model for a large artwork created out of five microscopic pictures in total measuring 80 cm by 624 cm. The artwork is printed on aluminium and located at the entrance of the Westerdijk Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands. The first picture is made from a colony of the fungus, which has a dimension of 1 cm and the last picture shows details of ornamentation on conidia and phialides of the fungus. The first two pictures of the artwork are made using a unique method of light microscopy in which many hundreds of pictures are made at different focal depths resulting in high detail and resolution of the pictures. For three other pictures, cryo-electron scanning microscopy was used including both a conventional system for lower magnification and a field emission scanning electron microscope for high resolution micrographs. The range of magnification is, at real size, between 78 and 63,000 times. When the observer passes the artwork it acts like a virtual microscope, just by walking past it you zoom-in to the smallest possible details. This coherent increase of magnification of one fungus, with very high quality light- and electron microscopy micrographs, shows different layers of fungal organization and emergent properties. These include the occurrence of secondary outcrops of hyphae and conidiophores in a colony; the formation of a stipe on a thin aerial hyphae; the presence and formation of characteristic structures on stipes, vesicles and phialides and a continuous zone between the forming conidia and phialides.

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从菌落到小棒状小动物：“韦斯特戴克研究所的大厅装饰着一幅 6 米长的干性真菌限制曲霉的肖像。”

极端嗜干真菌 Aspergillus restrictus 被用作大型艺术品的模型，该艺术品由五张共 80 厘米 x 624 厘米的显微图片组成。这件艺术品印在铝上，位于荷兰乌得勒支 Westerdijk 研究所的入口处。第一张图片是由一个尺寸为 1 厘米的真菌菌落制成的，最后一张图片显示了真菌分生孢子和瓶状体上的装饰细节。艺术品的前两张图片是使用一种独特的光学显微镜方法制作的，其中在不同的焦深处制作了数百张图片，从而使图片具有很高的细节和分辨率。对于另外三张照片，使用了低温电子扫描显微镜，包括用于较低放大率的常规系统和用于高分辨率显微照片的场发射扫描电子显微镜。在实际尺寸下，放大倍数的范围在 78 到 63,000 倍之间。当观察者经过艺术品时，它就像一个虚拟显微镜，只需走过它，您就可以放大到尽可能小的细节。一种真菌的这种放大倍数的连贯增加，具有非常高质量的光学和电子显微镜显微照片，显示了真菌组织的不同层和突现特性。这些包括菌落中菌丝和分生孢子的次生露头的出现；在薄气生菌丝上形成菌柄；叶柄上特征结构的存在和形成，