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.
Friday, June 4, 2010
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This is a micro-gigapan of a penny, it is composed of 367 images taken through an optical microscope. This image was not focused stacked but you can explore it here:
http://gigapan.org/gigapans/50690/
The front side of the penny had been imaged previously and can be viewed here: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/41737/
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