[meteorite-list] Thin Section-- The Motion Picture

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Aug 11 01:28:03 2006
Message-ID: <007301c6bd06$e59b4710$a94ee146_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, Darren,

    That is really neat. What we need now is a
reverse CAT-scan engine (or the original tomo-
graphic data). It should be possible to produce
a semi-transparent 3D object, appropriately
colored, that could be rotated on three axes
while you stare right through it, as nobody's
ever seen a meteorite before. I mean, I couldn't
do it, but it's obviously possible, just like the
3D Corpse...
    Just sailing down the axis... Windows Media
Player (10) played them just fine without having
to search for the codec.


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse_at_charter.net>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:51 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Thin Section-- The Motion Picture


A few years back there was a medical project where someone took frozen
corpses,
embedded them in something, and then shaved them down a millimeter or so at
a
time, taking a photo at each slice. I've wished that someone would do that
with
some low-metamorphic grade meteorites. Today I stumbled across a site that
doesn't have it done with photos, but has the next best thing-- tomographic
segments of a few meteorites. The web site has videos made from some of the
collections of images:

http://research.amnh.org/users/debel/meteorites/

I took the images of Semarkona and made them into AVI files

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/temp/

using the xvid codec, found here:

http://www.xvid.org/
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