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2019-07-02T14:50:56.000Z
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326
Video Title:
Electron Micrographs 2 | Nature–Design Triennial
Description:
James C. Weaver produces electron micrographs using a customized multi-detector scanning electron microscope, which scans the surface of a sample using a focused beam of high-energy electrons. The signals from each of the detectors are color-coded and subsequently recombined, creating a polychromatic electron micrograph. Unique to this process, color information is automatically generated during image acquisition, and not through manual post-processing. Variability in surface topography is revealed in a dazzling array of hues. The images shown here, of farmed coral specimens from the tropical Indo-Pacific, demonstrate the skeletal complexity of these incredibly diverse and ecologically important marine invertebrates. On view in "Nature–Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial" through January 2020. This video is audio described to make it more accessible. All courtesy of James C. Weaver James C. Weaver (American, born 1974), Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (Boston, Massachusetts, USA, founded 2009)
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2 min 42 sec
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