Mystery Scientific Image #1
by phill
In the interest
maintaining some regular features at this blog, I’m going to try out a new series of posts. Every Monday I will post an image from science and ask participants to try and identify what the image is before clicking on the link below it to discover the answer and hopefully learn something new. You can see today’s featured image above. There’s a very slight clue in the name of the image (first.gif), but if you want the full answer you can click right here to find out, and then here or here to find out more about the technique. It still blows me away to see the kind of apparatus pioneers of the field used, and how far we’ve come.
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I thought it looked like a 2-theta plot but the blob in the middle threw me off.
In hindsight it shouldn’t have, because its not that different to a beamstop image.
@Shane: Crazy though, isn’t it? His looked like you could knock it up in a garage somewhere. Might be a fun project :D
Your idea of fun seems to be a bit different to mine.
(Though my idea of fun may in fact be writing MPI programs to process gigabytes of data in new, and obviously clever ways – so I can’t really say anything …)