"3D microscopy" event in partnership with Looking Glass and MakerBay


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DIY 3D microscopy is a new way of taking stunning 3D images of microscopic scenes using conventional microscopes or a simple $1 modification to your smartphone. It's a very simple technique that you can do in a few minutes in almost any setting and get really cool results. The process is based on a standard photography technique called Focus Stacking, where you take multiple images of the same scene with different focus settings, and then use software to find the in-focus parts of each image and combine them together. Anytime you see a photo of a fancy watch on a billboard in Causeway Bay, you're looking at a photograph taken this way. Over the past several weeks, I've developed a refinement that lets us recover a 3D model from the images that can be 3D printed, shared on facebook, or viewed in a volumetric display.
During this meetup, we will modify a conventional microscope to use a smartphone camera to record images, and we'll also supply materials for anyone to turn their smartphone into a high-powered pocket microscope. Then, we'll take samples of macro and microscopic life around Maker Bay and capture 3D images that we can share, print and enjoy.

"3D microscopy" event in partnership with Looking Glass and MakerBay