Rocks that look like other things: cats
Sep. 8th, 2011 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgStill on the rhyolite, I've found a good opportunity to compare the best that the normal camera can do, versus what the microscope can come up with.
Here's a silhouette that looks like a cat, as taken with the camera at its best. For resolution comparison I resized it to approximately the same as the microscope images below:
And here's what the microscope provided. Not only a view of the outline:
...but the tiny crystals growing in the cavity below:
And at full resolution, this kind of detail:
Here's a silhouette that looks like a cat, as taken with the camera at its best. For resolution comparison I resized it to approximately the same as the microscope images below:
And here's what the microscope provided. Not only a view of the outline:
...but the tiny crystals growing in the cavity below:
And at full resolution, this kind of detail:
