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There's A Hole In The Microverse!
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05/12/09
I don't think this means what she thinks it means...
this is clearly an image that has been generated by software...and not that well frankly...
05/12/09
No, I think she's right. (Unless you're trolling.)
The atomic structure is measured directly using AFM, or possibly STEM, and then the areas with the same feedback voltage are given the same colour by some software. This allows you to truly image atoms, or at least their electron cloud. That's how they did the famous IBM one.
05/12/09
but she's implying that these images are not CG but "instead defined by their topography, geometry and symmetry." - no matter how you define them, these structures can't be visualized without software - software that gives them this false colour.
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/vfx nerd
05/13/09
my point was intended to ask why this image, the product of software, looks so cheap...if you're using software to visualize data you can do a better job, no nickeling, higher bit colors etc...
/vfx employee
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