D Monday, January 18, 2010 News University marks 800th birthday with a first-class illuminations show By Miles Erwin WELL, it is Cambridge so you would expect something a bit classier than Gail Porters bottom. But the grand old university really upped the standard with its light show to mark its 800th anniversary. Pictures of mouse skin and zinc oxide platelets were beamed onto Kings Col lege Chapel while the Gibbs Building showed images from galaxies and neb ulae to fruit flies and plant cells. Eight centuries of achievement have left Cambridge with plenty to celebrate, said organiser Geoff Morris. The Transforming Tomorrow show, which ends this evening, aims to show how research at the university is chang ing the future. It was produced by Ross Ashton, who has worked on several largescale projections. But not the 1999 FHM stunt which saw TV presenter Porters derrire beamed on to Britains Houses of Parliament. Cambridge rooflights Mirror image: Pictures of the Senate House are projected on to historic Cambridge buildings, heralding the start of the Transforming Tomorrow light show Pictures: Geoff Robinson Naked ambition: Palma Vecchios Venus And Cupid on the Senate House contrasts with nanoflower images on Kings College Chapel index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html