9. ImagingNo. 09.05
Electron Microscope
A scanning electron microscope sweeps a fine beam of electrons across a sample in a vacuum.
Handling
Tap a grain or shell to zoom in, again to look closer; a third tap goes back out. Tap another to zoom on it.
Its tag
- Shelf
- 9. Imaging
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
On the wall it weighs 11.6 KB: 1,024 splats, fitted to pictures of the full Splash, which opens with 490,008.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoom in a step on the object you tap (the third tap goes back out) | Tap | ||
| Zoom | Button | ||
| Sample | List | 3 choices | Pollen |
| Vision | List | 3 choices | Gray (realistic) |
About it
A scanning electron microscope sweeps a fine beam of electrons across a sample in a vacuum. Where the beam hits, the surface gives off low-energy electrons, and a detector counts them, point by point, into a gray picture. More escape where the beam meets the surface at a slant, so edges and spines glow, and the side facing away from the detector falls into shadow. It can show things far smaller than light can: pollen grains a few hundredths of a millimeter across, the rows of tiny pores in a diatom's glass shell, or the frozen droplets on a snowflake (snow is imaged cold, in a special stage).
The samples here are built for the splash in a microscope's grays. Tap any grain, shell, or crystal to zoom in from the whole field to it, then to its surface. Vision in the Splash tab recolors the picture: the realistic gray, a night-vision scope's green, or an infrared camera's colors (for fun: an electron microscope sees no color).
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 107,088 at Low, and up to 700,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
