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In February 2015, Jonty Hurwitz’s sculpture “Trust” was awarded the world record for the “Smallest sculpture of a human” by the Guinness Book of Records.
Hurwitz had pioneered a new sculptural technique using multiphoton lithography and photogrammetry to create the world’s smallest human portraits, effectively nano-sculptures (see image at the end of the article). They are so tiny, that they are invisible to the human eye, and can only be observed through a non-optical method of magnification, like a scanning electron microscope. Hurwitz collaborated with a team of scientists including Stephan Hengsbach of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and Yehiam Prior of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. (see: Wikipedia: Jonty Hurwitz)
What is the connection to the RRSG?
Jonty Hurwitz happens to be an alumnus of the Radar Remote Sensing Group at the University of Cape Town; in the mid-1990s, Jonty studied under Prof Mike Inggs, doing research in the field of radar pattern recognition. See his paper titled “Synthetic Range Profile Measurements of Aircraft”, published in the 1993 IEEE South African Symposium on Communications and Signal Processing (COMSIG ’93):
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Some figurative sculptors carve their artworks from unforgiving stone, while others carefully morph the human form from soft blocks of clay. Artist Jonty Hurwitz begins with over a billion computer calculations before spending months considering how to materialize his warped ideas using perspex, steel, resin, or copper.
Born in Johannesburg in 1969, Hurwitz now lives and works in London where he’s somewhat of a renaissance man, focusing both on his artwork and micro-loan website Wonga which he co-founded in 2007. His anamorphic sculptures rely on scans of objects (hands, faces, frogs) that are then distorted digitally and fabricated, but when placed in front of a cylindrical mirror the projected reflection reveals the original object. Still, other works deal with pixelated or sliced human forms that are only viewable from a single perspective. A scientist at heart, Hurwitz explained to me that his artwork is his way of “expressing calculations visually,” and also allows him to experiment with cutting-edge manufacturing and fabrication technologies. Of the more mind-bending anamorphic pieces, he shares:
For the anamorphic pieces its an algorithmic thing, distorting the original sculptures in 3D space using 2πr or πr3 (cubed). Much of it is mathematical, relying on process