Stacked microscope photos.

[specious_reasons]

I'm waiting for a couple of hours for my bug galls to soak in 30% alcohol, and boy how I've wasted my time.

I was trying to make a decent radiolarian picture for an avatar. This looks like a viable candidate:


The above is a stacked image, and while radiolarians look best when they have some sense of depth, stacking them is hard.

Then I had a lovely awful idea: Animated GIF.


I have dozens of these stacked images. I've gone a bit batty:

lily pollen


ostracod


Hydrodictyon


What do you think? Interesting?

[livius drusus]

They're mesmerizing. I like the ostracod best with the lily pollen (soft!) as a close second. The radiolarian suffers more from the resizing, I think. The big stacked picture is gorgeous, but there isn't enough small detail contrast for it to work as well in an animated avatar.

[specious_reasons]

Agreed. I think more tweaks will be necessary, too. They seem to be moving too fast.

[specious_reasons]

One last try for the radiolarian animation. Converted it to monochrome, jammed up the contrast and cropped it closer.

[livius drusus]

Much, much better. I miss the lovely lilac hue, though.

[Ensign Steve]

Fabulous!

[Ari]

You should consider taking twice as many needed for the stacking just to get a smoother transition. The Animated gifs are quite cool.

[freemonkey]

Very cool. Good job.

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by Ari

You should consider taking twice as many needed for the stacking just to get a smoother transition. The Animated gifs are quite cool.

The radiolarian images are one step apart on the fine tuning knob. I can do 1/2 steps with a bit more effort. In my experience stacking images, more doesn't always help.

Here's one that wasn't very interesting as a stack, but turned out pretty cool as an animation: