MICROSCOPY VIDEOS (and more 2D stills)

Here are some examples of John's work in motion-video microscopy, and the types of crystal art that he has done over the years.  See GIGAPIXEL MICROSCOPY for the first results in making extremely large prints from photo-microscopy of these tiny crystals.

 

A)  2D Microscopy Music Video ("A Soap Film" and "Microscapes")

B)    Click underlined titles below for 2D and 3D videos, click image for 2D stills.

 

 SOAP FILMS  

 

       OIL FILMS      

 

 CRYSTAL ART - 1      

 

   CRYSTAL ART - 2    

Thin films of soap, around a centimeter across and about a micron thick, are imaged as the horizontally or vertically held films evaporate and become thinner.  Striking colors arise by light-wave interference, and indicate the local thickness of the film.  Plumes and jets occur near the walls.  The real-time micro-scale fluid dynamics are revealed in videos. (Last update Aug. 2014)

Oil floating on a water surface thins by evaporation (fast if it is volatile) or by mechanical action.  Colors again arise as light-waves reflect off the top oil-air and mid oil-water surfaces and then interfere. Off-worldly structures form in a sort of abstract art.  Motion videos are equally interesting with evaporation and droplet building pools, and drop coalescence. (Aug. 2014)

Crystals, grown under a cover glass by cooling a melted mixture of organic chemicals with similar melting points, contain complex and beautiful structures.  Chemicals used include urea, vitamin C, resorcinol, carbon tetra bromide, sulfur, dibenzofuran, salicylic acid, malic acid, vanillin, napthol, and many others.

Further explorations of abstract "crystal art" using different optical contrast methods, such as oblique and darkfield illumination, phase and differential interference contrast (DIC).  Some Panographic presentations with many 'best resolution' 20-60X images stitched together to make an equivalent 2X or 4X high-quality print at GIGAPIXEL RESOLUTION have been completed in 2022.
 

 

 

  

 

          

 

 

      

 

 

       

 

 

 

  

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