«These cyanobacteria use the entire cell body as a lens to focus
an image of the light source at the cell membrane, as in the retina of an animal eye,» says University of London microbiologist Conrad Mullineaux, who helped to make the discovery.
Not exact matches
Another approach to increased awareness
of your higher Self is to picture and carry on an inner dialogue with your Wise Teacher or the Wise Woman or Wise Man within you, or
image and consult with your «inner
light,» as the Quakers and Mahatma Gandhi refer to the inner
source of wisdom.
The shroud has been radiocarbon dated to the MIddle Ages and the
source of the
image found to be a chemical technique that can be replicated (not a supernatural flash
of light).
My
source said Spitzer and Schick were also discussing family values, a delicate subject in
light of Ashley Dupree and the enduring
image of Spitzer schtupping in his black socks.
A probe
of the galaxy with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on June 13, 2013, revealed a glow in near - infrared
light at the
source of the gamma - ray burst, shown in the
image at top, right.
The Hubble Space Telescope took an
image of the
source on 4 April, which located the explosions at the center
of a galaxy 3.8 billion
light - years away.
Such rules include perspective (parallel lines appear to converge in the distance), stereopsis (our left and right eyes receive horizontally displaced
images of the same object, resulting in the perception
of depth), occlusion (objects near us occlude objects farther away), shading, chiaroscuro (the contrast
of an object as a function
of the position
of the
light source) and sfumato (the feeling
of depth created by the interplay
of in - and out -
of - focus elements in an
image as well as from the level
of transparency
of the atmosphere itself).
Pictured in the centre
of the
image is the strong lens galaxy, whose mass is responsible for the deflection
of the background
source's
light.
Combining the available
images and removing the haze
of the lensing galaxy's collection
of stars, the result was very clear: an almost perfect Einstein ring, indicating a gravitational lens with very precise alignment
of the lens and the background
light source [1].
When the observer, the lens, and the distant
light source are precisely aligned, the observer sees an Einstein ring: a perfect circle
of light that is the projected and greatly magnified
image of the distant
light source.
Using SLAC's Linac Coherent
Light Source (LCLS), a DOE Office
of Science User Facility, the researchers hit nearly 500,000 cocoons with X-ray pulses, creating diffraction patterns in a detector that were compiled to form an
image of the cocoon's structure with a resolution
of 0.2 nanometers.
Yet by connecting a single - pixel camera to a patterned
light source, a team
of physicists in China has made detailed x-ray
images using a statistical technique called ghost imaging, first pioneered 20 years ago in infrared and visible
light.
«Advances in high speed imaging, especially the recent availability
of extremely fast cameras and
light sources --(those) approaching hundreds
of kHz illumination and imaging rates at near megapixel
image sizes — have brought experimental imaging closer to the resolution achievable with simulations,» said Kevin L. McNesby a Research Chemist at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland.
If the
light source is an
image of Saturn or Jupiter, Case explains, you can «get out on the other end what that telescope would have shown you.»
Using 330,000
images captured by the Linac Coherent
Light Source (LCLS), a DOE Office
of Science User Facility, the research team determined the structure
of the molecule from the data alone.
The team used the Swiss
Light Source, a gigantic particle accelerator near Zurich, Switzerland, to supply the X-rays used to
image the inside
of the fossils.
In fact, when Chris Burrows
of the European Space Agency did a detailed inspection
of the Hubble
images, he located a dim object that could be the
source of the beams at the predicted location — about one - third
light - year from the center
of the supernova explosion.
Using intense x-rays generated at Berkeley University's Advanced
Light Source, the team captured time - resolved
images of whirlpool patterns called magnetic vortices as they gyrated along a nanometer - wide half - ring track.
This is a scanning tunneling microscopy
image of a 2 - D material created and studied at Berkeley Lab's Advanced
Light Source (orange, background).
Gillessen's group took similar steps to identify potential
sources of error, refining their coordinate system and examining the effects
of image distortion and
light -
source confusion on the estimates.
• The size
of the
light source doesn't actually determine the sharpness
of the pinhole
image.
This is a plane -
lighting homogeneity
image of a planar
light source device through a neutral density filter.
«We were able to make use
of reflected sunlight from Saturn as an additional
light source, which revealed details in the shadows
of some
of the
images.»
Pelt and Sethian are now applying their approach to other new areas, such as real - time analysis
of images coming out
of synchrotron
light sources, biological reconstruction
of cells, and brain mapping.
Click to Enlarge (JPEG / 138.4 KB) This schematic
image represents how
light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effects
of a nearer foreground galaxy, which acts like a lens and makes the distant
source appear distorted, but brighter, forming characteristic rings
of light, known as Einstein rings.
An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Advanced
Light Source, a DOE Office
of Science User Facility,
images nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery particles as they charge and discharge.
Researchers used a powerful X-ray microscope at Berkeley Lab's Advanced
Light Source (ALS) to capture
images of nerve cell samples at different stages
of maturity as they became more specialized in their function — this process is known as «differentiation.»
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IMAGE: This schematic represents how
light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effects
of a nearer foreground galaxy, which acts like a lens and makes the distant
source appear distorted, but brighter, forming characteristic rings
of light, known as Einstein rings.
Though some shadow detail is murky, requiring
of a low
light viewing room, the
image, given the age
of the
source, is nothing short
of amazing.
At other intervals the
image would look blurred out, less contrasted; while the jetbook pretty much looks the same no matter how you hold it (save for the reflection
of the
light source on the screen).
However, the front - facing camera itself produced sharp detailed
images of our face in good
lighting conditions, though our features were covered in shadow if there was a
light source behind us.
backlight (backlit) screen a type
of the display which produces a visible
image thanks to a
source of light placed behind it.
Deploying a style
of photography that references multiple
sources and precedents, including the carefully composed and well -
lit images of the 1920s New Objectivity movement, the photo - conceptualism that he encountered as a student at CalArts in the 1970s, and the advertisement industry, Williams creates layered works that critically, but also playfully, reveal the conditions
of the medium in post-industrial society.
Rendered in his signature stain technique, much
of Maslansky's work takes
source images from Red
Light Lacuna (2011 --RRB-, his found archive
of compromising selfies and cringe - worthy esoterica, which he shares through social networking websites.
By contrast, Kellerbar has
light from a single
source illuminating a bare pub sign and a painted china spaten which, in their magnificent simplicity, conjure
images of another world.
In many
of these canvases, arseholes and penises become
sources of illumination and cinematic projections: Chandelier (all works 2016) depicts a man hanging from the ceiling, projecting
light from his bum, while in the Freudian - sounding Ding Dong Dream, an erect penis beams out the
image of a smiling baby into a dark void.
Speaking
of his work, he said: «I create my
images by studying the expression
of the hazardous interactions that can arise between my photographic subjects and the different
light sources that I decide to put in my scenes.
Made through a process
of distorting and warping relevant scans using open -
source software, Staniak's works are the product
of his continual exploration
of the changing dynamics
of images in
light of the proliferation
of digital culture.
Similarly, in Temkin's work titled
Light Pattern, a programming language that uses photos in place
of text for
source code, the artist attempts to communicate with the computer machine by producing
images according to its specifications, producing «moments
of affect which come naturally to human communication, even when actively discouraged».
Layers
of abstract
images were formed by these material encounters, along with the subsequent imprint
of the surrounding
light sources, such as those in the artist's studio.
XU ZHEN
Light Source — Bathsheba Holding King David's Letter, 2014 Oil on canvas 33.8 x 38.6 inches (86 x 98 cm)
Image courtesy
of James Cohan Gallery, New York / Shanghai
The resulting combination
of the
light sources (the LED
light of the scanner mixed with sunlight) manifests
images that appear digital but are not produced in a strictly digital manner.
The publication is introduced by a set
of photographic archive
images representing the formal and iconographic
sources of the paintings, which are then shown in a chromatic sequence highlighting the artist's deep research on colors,
light and space.
«The title
of the exhibition refers to a visual phenomenon, which occurs when the
image of an object seems to linger in the eyes even after the original object is absent — much like when looking directly into a
light source and then looking away.
In the installation, a sapling stripped
of its leaves is placed in front
of a
light source, producing a chimerical
image of nature projected on a large free - standing pane
of opaque glass.
Chan's meditative video fades not to black, but to
light purple, then to a rich shade
of orange, as when a projector, its
source unplugged, turns deep blue — an
image without an
image.
Ambient occlusion calculates which pixels in an
image would be blocked from view
of the
light source by other geometric objects and determines how bright they should be.
Corner shading is reduced by mixing flash with additional
light sources, but
images then tend to be slightly overexposed, with red eye and loss
of detail still a concern.
The problem with LCD is always that its
light source is separate from the
source of the
image - in LCDs case, little pixels in red, green and blue colours - so there are problems producing accurate colour as well as deep blacks.
The Honor 8 captured clear, largely noise - free
images during an upstate New York evening, when then the only
source of light was a setting sun.