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

[Tim Fisher]

You may be looking at a gigabyte an image :)

Tim Fisher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
Behalf Of Peter Richards
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 6:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] These Are the Highest Resolution Photos Ever Taken
of Snowflakes

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
___________________________
R. Peter Richards, Ph.D.
rpr at heidelberg.edu
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-cutaw
> ays-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/09827
> 61007/ref=pd_bxgy_img_3/140-8585420-6846223?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=098
> 2761007&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=6H32Q
> AN0MNC00AS331B5&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-histo
> ry/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-pi
oneering-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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