We don't have a sense of scale for the very small, and gigapan + microscopes (optical or SEM) can go a huge way towards opening the country of the very small to a wider public.
Richard Feynman wrote There's plenty of room at the Bottom, but even if you have read
that (more than once :-), you still don't get the sense of what
'small' means that you can get from seeing it in a Gigapan.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
First micro-gigapan; bee wing on tape and silicon
Finally we've made the push to get our optical microscope working as a micro-gigapan! Here is our first attempt. There's obviously some problems with the vignetting due to the microscope-camera adapter, though this should be solvable.
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