#zoom and enhance!

[royalarmyofoz]

HACKS 4.09

[blergeatkitty]

So as a birthday present to myself this year I decided to get myself a second microscope.

If you want to see things up close, send me an ask and I will do my best.

In case you’re interested, I am using a Vision Scientific VS-2FZ Trinicular Zoom Stereo Microscope with a 5MP camera for pics.

Here is today’s fun image set.

We begin at MAXIMUM ZOOOOM!

[ID: Hard to tell what this is up close. But they’re white, shiny, and sharp looking, interspersed with teeny dark bits. Are those fibres? Crystals? Flakes? Skin? Is that dark stuff dirt? Ink? Bugs? Blood? /End ID]

Un-zooming up a notch:

[ID: Um, still a mess of…stuff. Kinda white. More little dark dots. Definitely fibrous. But is it paper? Plastic? Some third and mysterious thing starting with a P merely for the sake of alliteration? And…Is that a curve at the bottom? /End ID]

Ok, not too helpful, let’s back out some more.

[ID: Ok, now we’re getting somewhere. It’s round and it’s fibrous and it’s white with little black specks. There might be a flake there too, same material. Can’t tell if this is normal or out of the ordinary. But it’s really round, even up close, and the round thing looks raised. Like the top of a LEGO block, but…fibrous, thready. /END ID]

And another YOINK on the zoom knob (you heard me, I just yoinked my knob. If you can’t handle that without giggling like a twelve year old then at least keep it down so the other kids can learn something)

[ID: Thé zoomed has been dialled back far enough that we can now clearly see the little round indented thing. The surrounding terrain is flatter, with definite horizontal striations of some kind. Is this proof of life? Were these once channeling some great flood of water, millions of years ago? And…hey, up there. In the upper right hand corner. Is that a shadow cast by another ROUND THING? Quick Robin! To the Bat Zoom/Unzoom dial! /END ID]

[ID: It is clear to me now from this vantage point at which I find myself that there are yet more of these round, fibrous masses. They are arranged in some geometric pattern whose ultimate purpose, for all my scientific knowledge, I cannot fathom. /END ID]

[ID: Thé image is the same, but an immense blade has descended from the heavens, its reflective point, glinting and metallic, pointing at the original target of our investigation. Perhaps if we zoom out fully we would have a better perspective. Quick Watson! The game is afoot! /END ID]

[ID: our perspective shifts beyond zooming, beyond the microscope. Returning to the macro-world, we find ourselves affixing our gaze upon an iPhone picture of an Xacto knife, blade pointing downward at a torn fragment of brightly illuminated absorbent paper towel. We can now see the circular, dotted landscape as the embossed dots making up the pattern on the paper towel fragment. /END ID]

Huh. The part I find nearest about this image set is the black dots. Totally can’t see them without the scope.

Oh yeah, and the fact that this entire time we’ve been looking at little dipped valleys as opposed to raised mountains. The final iPhone image of the microscope viewing area shows the paper roll dimples are all facing downwards.

Nifty!

Anyway, I’m going to do more of these. If you want to see the surface of something specific up close, feel free to ask.

At some point I’ll pull out the other microscope and my slides, because those are fun too, but right now I’m enjoying my new (early) birthday toy.

🥳🔬🧻

[ID: A final close-up shot of the paper towel fragment, brightly illuminated by LED light, dimples clearly facing away /END ID]

[vampiregerard]

never coming home, never coming home

[ahappydnp]

incredibly important to me personally

[lefthandarm-man]

Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanoff The Avengers (2012)

matching each others freak

[psykergirl]

Detective Leto 'Fenris' Harmon reporting for duty.

Just in time for Chapter 3: Friends in Low Places of Copycat in Kirkwall, the wonderful @alaslen has drawn this incredible artwork of Detective Leto 'Fenris' Harmon from the Hightown Police Precinct in Kirkwall. Just don't call him 'Leto' whatever you do.

[forged-in-kaoss]

i wonder what its name is

[tracingpapier]

and someday you will ache like i ache

redrew this little number here

[hiddenbarinapocketdimension]

BTS pics and suddenly inspiration struck but I only had a single shitty ikea pencil

[Reblogs are love, so if you can spare some blog space for this humble drawing then I shall greatly appreciate it <3]

[tiger-balm]

<3

[chandralia]

NEW MOVIE SKETCH

[royalarmyofoz]

ELSBETH 2.13

[p1nkcanoe]

THE GHOULS ARE COLLARED???

what I saw (twitter)

[vimflam]

I don't know if it's even intended to Be funny, but "zoom and enhance, if that were even a real thing (which it isn't)" is a tmbg lyric that always makes me smile.

[urboned]

every once in a while i'm like "maybe i'll post on tiktok" & then i remember that the last time i did they ai enhanced almost every single drawing

[slavicbeastie]

Mural of Jinx from Arcane Season 2 trailer is homage to

Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix about French revolution