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George says:

A grubby tennis ball?
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

efatima [deleted] says:

I would want it to be - all races united.
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

Vanita says:

Seasonal weather patterns around the earth.
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

ScottyM says:

shaped like a tennis ball and looks like a projection of a 3D thermal map or something.
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

hello there! this looks like one of those test for color-blind people to me...

Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

fisheggs says:

Tibetan sand painting?
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

L8o says:

..'united' or not, we're all the 'races' this beautifull ball will ever have.

I think the ball concept brings home the importance of recognizing that, ultimately, we have no choice BUT to come together and truly be the 'One' we are meant to be. There's no where else to go.
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

nice.... Some very interesting ideas. Perhaps it is a sub-conscious communal catalyst...

ScottyM is close. It is "something". =)

Per the Alieness post, do we have any colorblind people to read the tea leaves here?
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

ok, no color-blind test... it could be a good one, tho!

Now... can this "something" be the impression this scanner took of your finger? Of course there should be some guidance required to understand what is it saying about you...
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

OldCola says:

Gi, what yellow circle ?
It looks to be a "constructed" image or the result of reading from artificial light.
Look at the spectra.
And it gives the feeling of being spherical. But small, like a bic ball?

Heeelp!
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

Constructed, small, and spherical are correct....

Once again, L'Inspecteur finds some interesting meta-analysis. What does the spectrometry on the mass tell you?
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

Vanita says:

A Buckyball.
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

zenera says:

Magnetic particles...
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

Some elemental truths there, Vanita et Zenera....
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

zenera says:

Metallica
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

...a ray of light captured by some electronic microscope?

(oh, sorry, I am not too sharp-minded today)
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

Alieness: So close.... I could weave bits and pieces of several answers..... There is "some electronic microscope" involved.... Think of something other than a ray of light, and I think you'll get it.

Zenera: Are you still on your heavy metal music break? Please do report in whatever you are listening to. =)
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

Gosh... this socloseness... mmmm... *thinking*...
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

I thought of laser, too, when thinking of light, but only posted about the last...

What I don´t see is anything solid, netiher fluid under a microscope...(a piece of cloth or a droplet i.e.) Perhaps it is, but I can´t see what could be.
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

Ah, that is because it is a "construction", as OldCola observed earlier, like in puzzle 10....
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

oh
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

ok... thinking of it all... I´ve got some observations. There is something very disturbing about these 3 things happenning at the same time:

* The spherical shape, very precise.
* The imperfection of its edge.
* The undefined (inconclusive) shapes the 3 colors return: red-green-yellow spots.
* The white spaces between the colored dots.

These lead me to think that:

1- this is a contructed image of some event IN PROCESS, not static.
2- the imperfect edge can mean pores.
3- if there are pores there is some membrane (or skin)...
4- this spectrometry may be marking the presence of heat in this process...
5- The skin pores seem to be exhaling heat (if you see the image with zoom looks like there are some little explossions at the edges). Most of it in the red area (which reinforces the idea of the presence of heat)

So... having said all this I would sugest that this could be:
an image captured
by an electronic device (scanner or microscope)
of an organic thing (i.e. a fruit)
which is being expossed (in process)
to microwaves or some other source of heat
the green areas are still "cold" and the red area is already hot and invading the rest of the body...

Amen!
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

fun.

I think you had this in mind.... =)

Zenera, Vanita, PepsiVieux and ScottyM... There are four elements in the answer.
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

yeap... seems I can only have the Prince in mind.

I´ll read his words tonight, unless I fall asleep first... Adieu. =)
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

Vanita says:

Micromagnetism – magnetic properties of nano-structures - a technique of electrochemical deposition through liquid crystalline templates.

Sphere - The visualisation is that of a sphere of radius 200nm at zero applied field. The colour scale represents the angle between the x and y components of the magnetisation; the streamlines represent tracers which have been dropped in to highlight the vortex state.

See - www.soton.ac.uk/~rpb/micromagnetism.html
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

Whoa. That's some fancy talk.... You are zooming toward the correct domain.... Zenera's magnetism pulls like a siren, but the colors are more elemental.... Perhaps if you sleep on it, the last detail will appear, like visions of sugar plums in your head....
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

OldCola says:

OK, small, spherical, multicolored, magnetic, chameleon like.
Could that be some voxel to show color? The element of a screen? But does Red, Yellow, Green will do it? Some filter should be used...

[edit]
I would like it to be a fullerene C60 (like) structure, coated with rare earths. To be used as pixel :-) [/edit]
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

Vanita says:

It is an image of a *Christmas Ornament* generated by an electron microscope.

I’m pretty sure it is an electron microscope image of something... ;-} The yellow, red, and green are electrons. I am having a terrible time figuring out what has this simple swirl pattern.

(My previous fancy talk was, of course, a parroting of scientists far smarter than me. If only one could cut and paste into one’s own brain...)
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

OK, I think we have a team win here, but there is a little fuzziness on what the colors represent in this 3D computerized reconstruction.... (magnetism is misleading, fyi.... ignore that)

Do you want me to reveal the web of partial answers that gives the total picture?

And Vanita is right; with a transmission electron microscope, you get a stream of electrons, but the image that you get usually represents something else (as in this photo I took with a TEM).

I don't think you will guess what has the swirl pattern.... but a more accurate identification of what the colors represent (in general) would be the clincher....
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

OldCola says:

OK, one more guess,
Small, spherical, view provided by some electronic microscope.
Let's say it's bigger then a fullerene molecule. Something like a nanometric silica ball.
And that colors correspond to doping material on the surface (or near the surface). Green for the supporting materiel, colors for doping ones.

Something like a small spherical transistor? :-D Or even more complex, an elemental circuit able to resonate at a particular frequency.
Now, for this one I hope I'm nt right, I'll explain later :-D
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

Bingo OldCola!! (for the first paragraph; it is not a spherical transistor though. Sorry. But almost as interesting…) AND a fine group effort, once again!

These are the individual atoms in a 90 nanometer scoop of Nitinol. (Red = titanium. Blue = nickel. Green = sulfur. Yellow = iron) ....motivating the hint: “There are four elements in the answer.”

Early on, ScottyM was close in saying that it was “a projection of a 3D… something” but that was a little abstract…. Alieness figured out that it was produced by a microscope. Vanita figured out it was a molecular scale structure, and Zenera identified them as particles, in a nod to Democritus, 460 B.C.

It is an “extreme macro zoom” image taken by a 3D Atom Probe Microscope. Atoms are popped off the sample individually and where they hit a screen determines where the atom came from, and the time of flight determines the species of atom (each atom having a different weight, measured with mass spectrometry). The computer reconstructs the 3D image of the atoms in the sample, which can be rotated around. (Imago VRML examples for PC)

Nitinol is a shape memory alloy used in medical devices and robot muscles to get motion from electrical current.

Besides imaging nanostructured alloys, the atomic precision of an Atom Probe Microscope is useful to the semiconductor and disk drive industries, where they regularly try to build structures with atomic precision (e.g., gate oxides that are exactly 3 atoms thick).

Fisheggs had the most beautiful evocation: “Tibetan sand painting.” I thought it looked like a ying-yang swarm.
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

OldCola says:

Now, I'm glad that it isn't an electronic device.

There is a US patent out there signed by an homonym (last name). The "constructs" look like this one. And I have study them as potential vehicles for drugs. I would be regretful if I wasn't able to identify one of them. But the pattern didn't triggered anything...

And I have never see a such beautiful image of a nano-device.
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

Holy Nanospaceships, Batman! This one was a VERY hard puzzle. Congratulations OLD-genius-C!

All the travel non-stop from a Pumpkin core to a Nitinol scoop microscope image was too brusque for me... I feel sick.

Any doctor in the room? a Prince will do, too...
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

ivo says:

A tibetan sand painting is called a Mandala, it's so amazing to watch the monks draw amazing perfect designs with colored sands only to dump the finished product in a body of water. I loved it... so spiritual.

As for the puzzle, I can't think right now! unfortunately I came in real fast just to check my mail but your email caught my attention. It was too much temptation lol.

I will give it some thought during my boring meeting at 3:30.

Gotta run!
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

OldCola says:

I don't deserve the Bingo, but at least I found a solution to play with the .wrl file
Waiting for the next one

Special for Mac OS X user.
I made it with Parallelgraphics Corona plug-in and Safari [FireFox had some hard time ;-)]
Think to restart Safari after placing the plug-in in Internets Plug-in folder in your libraries folder.
Then, drop the .wrl file in a new Safari window
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

Vanita says:

A good puzzle! Fun was had!

Here is a rather amusing site I ran across during my hunting...
micro.magnet.fsu.edu/beershots/
:
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

ivo says:

Oh I missed out on all the fun. :/ Oh well, there will be plenty more to decipher!
Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

mndoci says:

I would love to run a simulation on that beast
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

_sarchi says:

I would not really want it to be a natural phenomena such as locust swarming?
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

optick says:

great pic and great reading the comments! bravo!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Jimages Digital says:

Challenging and deep puzzle. Enjoyed it.
jim
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Nano Imaging (Post 1, Comment 1), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

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