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    • Fabricated SEM Photos (or Recent Advances in Nanoscale Synthesis)

      Monday, 24 Mar 2008 - 08:43 UTC


      Nanobowl


      Nano-Oral-B-Essentialfloss®


      Nanoswabs

      Method:

      1. Take a photo of an object under a strong light and open it in Photoshop
      2. Execute Image_Adjustments_Desaturate
      3. Image_Adjustments_Levels…, move the gray triangle closer to the white one to enhance the contrast, then move the white one towards left to refill some highlight
      4. Select_Color Range… Take a brightest or darkest spot in the image for sample color and adjust the fuzziness to nearly full.
      5. Filters_Blur_Motion Blur adjust the scaler to add some aberration to the photo. (sometimes you need to process both the dark and the bright spots.)
      6. Almost done. Now type a line of basic SEM info (use the font Terminal) such as the energy of the electron bean beam and a scale bar, a series no., etc. Add a layer of black band.

      Watch my tutorial video.

      Last updated: Monday, 24 Mar 2008 - 08:43 UTC

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      • Comments

        • Date:
          Monday, 24 Mar 2008 - 09:44 UTC
          Bob O'Hara said:

          OK, how long before the first lolSEM appears?

        • Date:
          Monday, 24 Mar 2008 - 11:01 UTC
          jes sherman said:

          YES! We need lolSEMs! If you don’t do it, CBC will…
          Instead of using Terminal and making a DIY scale bar, you could always cut & paste from an actual SEM image…

        • Date:
          Monday, 24 Mar 2008 - 11:04 UTC
          Andrew Sun said:

          Sorry, what’s a lolSEM?

        • Date:
          Monday, 24 Mar 2008 - 19:17 UTC
          Bob O'Hara said:

          It’s a small version of a lolcat. Click on Random a few times until you get the idea.

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 25 Mar 2008 - 09:45 UTC
          David Bradley said:

          Andrew, personally I would have held off posting these till next Tuesday…great stuff either way.

          db

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 09 Apr 2008 - 23:12 UTC
          Ayaori Iseya said:

          ROTFL! When I saw the nanobowl. . . the first thing I thought was: “Hey, what kind of bonding make this structure?”—-and then, lo, the great epiphany. . . LOL.


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