This is "old Internet" style fun territory (along the same lines as the Tom7 fun, if not quite as deep). I felt that the olive oil + fingerprint + phone screen was a really nice way to illustrate the core concept. Especially clever because it used something common and annoying to help describe how the plotter does its thing.
It would be interesting to augment the plotter with a Unimorph piezoelectric disk scanner [1], to enable finer movement so lines can be drawn closer together.
interesting! the axidraw v3 that I used for this (https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/846) has a 0.0125mm stepper resolution, which means that it is pretty close to not-worth-it to go any finer since the sizes of the scratches are already many microns wide. But certainly with better etching technology that would be a super cool update!
William Beaty had a video of the hands on the car hood. They showed up very detailed some 20 cm under the hood as if people captured inside. Quite the find.
Holography is such a beautiful and fascinating gateway to physics, and it’s so rare to see true demonstrations of it. Sadly, most people have no idea what it is because of how carelessly the term is thrown around, just like in this article. At least the author admits it and provides some kind of excuse, even if it’s at the end.
He uses the third dimension to encode time, so that you get an image of the brain that illustrates how signals propagate dynamically between brain regions.
I have a version of this on my wall and its mesmerizing to look at with the right lighting conditions
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[1] https://john-alexander42.github.io/simple-stm-web-page/Disk_...
He uses the third dimension to encode time, so that you get an image of the brain that illustrates how signals propagate dynamically between brain regions.
I have a version of this on my wall and its mesmerizing to look at with the right lighting conditions