THE CRYSTAL COSMOS:    GIGAPIXEL MICROSCOPY  2022

Microscope slides containing thin films of crystallized organic chemical mixtures are robotically scanned in X and Y.  At each X-Y position a vertical (focus-axis) stack of images is taken as the microscope stage is driven upwards.  A high-resolution microscope objective is used.  Each "focus-stack" is composited into a single "universally-in-focus" frame. The resulting fully-focused frames from over a hundred X-Y locations are then stitched together to produce a giant image, with gigapixel resolution.  One can stand back and look at the whole scene, then walk (or zoom) in close to see the intricate details of the remarkable crystallizations.   DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE TECHNIQUE.

 

RESULTS:

Click an image below to go off-site to gigapan.com's panorama viewer, where you can drag the image around and zoom in and out.  Once there, go to full screen (double slanted arrows), zoom (+ and -), or go back to full size (circle arrow).  To return here use your browser's back-arrow.   There is some loss when uploading to gigapan.com due to its reprocessing of psb files, and its uploader's compression.  Still, pretty good  :-).  Check back in the future for  more gigapixel imagery, as other chemicals are being explored.  New shots will be added to the top of the "stack" below. 

 

    

Cosmic Storm       L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine                                 Cosmic Flower 1     L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine

                 

Cosmic Flower 2     L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine                              Cosmic Garden  1     L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine

 

                        

Cosmic Flower 3     L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine                               Cosmic Garden 2          L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine

     

Cosmic Garden 3          L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine                   Cosmic Garden 4          L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine

     

Alpine Lakes    Urea, Resorcinol, Carbon Tetrabromide, Menthol          Alien Gardens             Resorcinol and Carbon Tetrabromide

 

     

Birds of Prey      Acetaminophen and Urea                                            Alien Dunes      Resorcinol and Sulfur

 

    

Devil's Scissors           Sulfur                                                             Devil's Scissors II           Sulfur

      

Escape the Alien Hordes               Acetaminophen, Urea                       Alien City Under A Methane Rainbow            Urea

       

Kelp Forest           Resorcinol and CBr4                                                   Angel's Flight      Resorcinol and Vanillin

 

Polar Coastline Panorama    Acetaminophen, Urea

 

      

King Penguins                    Acetaminophen, Urea                                                Crystal Cosmos      Resorcinol and Vanillin

                                                                                               

       

The Loop                 Vitamin C                                                      Crystal Canyons           Resorcinol and Vanillin

 

       

 

Receding Glaciers           Resorcinol and Sulfur                             Alien Gardens:   Stems and Flowers         Vitamin C

 

     

Alien Coastline  Resorcinol, Carbon Tetrabromide, Methylene Blue   Cosmic Necklace  Resorcinol, Carbon Tetrabromide, Methylene Blue

            

Crystal Flower        L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine                             Crystalline Grass            L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine

 

   

Yellow Waves of Grain        L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine                Field of Purple Leaves     L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine

 

  

Red Leaf in Fall           L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine                              Cosmic Rice               L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine

 

  

Cosmic Firestorm           L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine                    Flow Through Crystalline Gap    L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine

 

  

Cosmic Firestorm - 2          L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine                        Crystalline Chaos           L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine

 

Crystalline Grass Field of Dreams    L-Glutamine and Beta-Alanine 

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