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.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Focus stacked micro-gigapan
Here is the first focused stacked micro-gigapan. It is composed an array of 16 images, each of which is composed of 20 images that are focus stacked. 320 images were taken to make this image, which is only 0.11 gigapixels
Here is another image to compare this focus stacked gigapan to. It is a 4x4 array stitched together, but instead of using the focus a single image. As you can see it is stacked images, we instead just used not nearly as in focus as the image above.
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