[Rockhounds] These Are the Highest Resolution Photos Ever Taken of Snowflakes

[Peter Richards]

Nice snowflakes!  Unfortunately, there’s no way to judge the claim that they are "the highest resolution ever".  Is there a link to a downloadable image in all its high-resolution glory?  The images downloaded from the article seem to be at 72 dpi or a little larger.

Pete
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R. Peter Richards, Ph.D.
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Morphological Crystallographer

> On Jan 29, 2021, at 9:01 AM, Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The first chill of a winter storm is enough to send most people indoors,
> but not Nathan Myhrvold. The colder the weather, the better his chances are
> of capturing a microscopic photograph of a snowflake. Now, nearly two years
> in the making, Myhrvold has developed what he bills as the “highest
> resolution snowflake camera in the world.” Recently, he released a series
> of images taken using his creation, a prototype that captures snowflakes at
> a microscopic level never seen before.
> 
> Myhrvold, who holds a PhD in theoretical mathematics and physics from
> Princeton University and served as the Chief Technology Officer at
> Microsoft for 14 years, leaned on his background
> <http://www.nathanmyhrvold.com/index.php/about/cv> as a scientist to create
> the camera. He also tapped into his experience as a photographer, most
> notably as the founder of Modernist Cuisine
> <https://modernistcuisine.com/about/>, a food innovation lab known for
> its high-resolution
> photographs <https://modernistcuisinegallery.com/collection/> of various food
> stuffs
> <https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-spectacular-cutaways-give-you-an-insiders-view-of-your-food-6948699/>
> published
> into a five-volume book
> <https://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking/dp/0982761007/ref=pd_bxgy_img_3/140-8585420-6846223?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0982761007&pd_rd_r=b48f5a9a-0623-4a76-aa41-650a7b21106b&pd_rd_w=b1Ikg&pd_rd_wg=kFJim&pf_rd_p=f325d01c-4658-4593-be83-3e12ca663f0e&pf_rd_r=6H32QAN0MNC00AS331B5&psc=1&refRID=6H32QAN0MNC00AS331B5>
> of
> photography of the same name that focuses on the art and science of
> cooking. Myhrvold first got the idea to photograph snowflakes 15 years ago
> after meeting Kenneth Libbrecht, <https://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/> a
> California Institute of Technology professor who happened to be studying
> the physics of snowflakes.
> 
> “In the back of my mind, I thought I’d really like to take snowflake
> pictures,” Myhrvold says. “About two years ago, I thought it was a good
> time and decided to put together a state-of-the-art snowflake photography
> system...but it was a lot harder than I thought.”
> 
> Photographing snowflakes is nothing new. In the late 1880s, a Vermont
> farmer by the name of Wilson Bentley
> <https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2020/12/21/why-scientists-find-snowflakes-cool/>
> began
> shooting snowflakes at a microscopic level on his farm. Today he's
> considered a pioneer for his work, which is part of the Smithsonian
> Institution Archives
> <https://siarchives.si.edu/history/featured-topics/stories/wilson-bentley-pioneering-photographer-snowflakes>.
> His photography is considered the inspiration for the common wisdom that
> “no two snowflakes are alike.”
> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-are-highest-resolution-photos-ever-taken-snowflakes-180976710/
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