Not “lice”?
man. i hate aphids.
some species, the females are born already pregnant. and some forms can choose when to have MALES too. i do think thier are parasitoids that can deal with aphids.
Asexual reproduction!
The bane of many gardeners.
Very cool photo!
Check out this 3D lens adapter that I’ve been designing:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/187584645445
Right now I’m 3D printing, hoping I can find a market for it. Trying to sell it at cost has been pretty disappointing though. It hasn’t sold twice. The images are awesome but I think its true. Those who are into 3D photography are probably a few here and there.
I’m in the Kenmore WA area by the way. I saw the Seattle photo. Pretty cool.
That is a very interesting device. I would love to see more information on it. Inventing is a very difficult thing. You have to do engineering, product development, manufacturing, marketing, and many other specialized functions. Don’t give up. You probably will not be able to make money until the design is refined into a final product. But the challenge and experience of going through the process of developing a product would be more valuable than the profit. Don’t forget to protect your design with documentation and possibly patents. Maybe you want to seek financial backing. Check out sites like Crowdsupply and other crowd funding sites. I would gladly help support your project since all the crossview pictures I create are taken using the “cha-cha” method. I would love to have simple device to automate the process. Good luck. Please keep me updated on your progress.
Seriously? The images look fantastic! I thought for sure you were using like a two camera rig maybe.
Well there’s not much to patent on my simple device but there’s definitely a ton of work so far to put it together. I’m going to drop the price again to see if that does nudge someone to offer. Once I know how much anyone might be willing to pay, then I may be able to get the body plastic injected in China. I had to make a dummy model with all the wrong dimensions to get a quote. So I know already a little about how much it may cost.
I have to keep it going.
This is genuinely a great photo. Even as a single macro shot, it’s great. The stereographic imaging is so good, I have to imagine some kind of special purpose device was used, there’s no way the shoot-shuffle-shoot method was used here. What was the method?
Very astute observation. The image was compiled using an image stacking program called Picolay.
Great rabbit hole, very interesting. I’m not quite wrapping my head around this from a quick glance, though. So you take a series of images at different focal depths, and this software can focus-stack those images to take the sharpest features of each and create a composite. I see it also creates a depth map of the image, which is super cool and has lots of applications. Is the stereogram generated directly from the depth map and value data? So the image is taken from a single point of view! Then inpainting would be necessary to synthesize offset views? But the image looks really good, perhaps it’s just hard to see the artifacts?
At least now I understand why my macro photos are so much shallower than some that I see no matter what I do in camera.
I’m wondering if it is possible to use the depth map to create a CAD file for 3d printing or CNC carving.
