Robbo sez, "One of many videos on DailyMotion that feature a slow zoom in very very very close to everyday objects and human body parts. This one is a tooth - and it is freaky to see up close just how porous and crystalline the structure of our choppers are."
Zoom into a Tooth (Thanks, Robbo!)
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ahhhhhhh!
was that down to the atomic level?
Woaaaaahh
now, that was a trip!
That is crazy! No wonder why I get so many cavities. Not compact at all.
I think this may be just super imposed slides rather then actual zoom. Especially the last bit.
What was that very regular grid like structure at the end?
oh, that's s standard Gray control chip. Don't
you have one?
I wanted a scale bar, especially as things got more spiky-- x200 doesn't mean anything when x1 isn't the original size of the tooth. Impressive effect, though.
Any guesses on how much of that was real? There was no way that could've been a single zoom, going from a visible-light picture of an entire tooth through electron microscopy to what I assume is supposed to be the crystal lattice structure of calcium carbonate. I *think* that last image of the lattice is actually possible, but you'd need (expensive) time on something like an atomic force microscope.
So my guess is that it's a series of photos at very different zoom levels, with some very funky graphics work done to create transitions between them. It's still awesome, just in a slightly different way.
(I'm not a microscopy expert; I'd love to be corrected by someone who is!)
Mojave, it was the Matrix!!
I think I saw the mark 9906947-XB71 somewhere in there. Not many can afford such quality.
It's definitely superimposed slides but the presentation method notwithstanding it's pretty awesome to see something so up close. Check out the rest of the series, too.
"We have no reached maximum magnification" the man says, while it continues to zoom in quite substantially for some time after that statement.
Could be they are using this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_force_microscopy
Mesmerizing.
Has 'Crystals of Appetite' been taken as a band name yet?
excuse me, I need to go floss.
Yes, that would have to be a montage of separate images made in a few different ways, zooming on each one, and with a lot of tricks to make it jump from one iamge to another seamlessly. Still, the finished film is way cool!
I have trypophobia and this creeps me out A LOT.
I couldn't finish watching. D:
Smoke some weed while watching this. You'll see a whole nother universe like no teeth you've ever seen before :D
whoa that`s SCARY!
OH MY GOD THAT WAS BLOODY INSANE
@18
Word up.
Neat. I'm amazed how fast the zoom counter goes up. It's exponential. Aside from that, the tooth is kind of boring to me: Let's see something more interesting, like hair.
10 years ago I made something similar.
Zoom a leaf.
http://free.art.pl/comics/mic.htm
This video was one of a series of 22 videos produced in 1997 by a French team. The DVD is available at Amazon and elsewhere and is titled "Shapes of the Invisible".
They used a mixture of normal camera work and electron microscopy blended seamlessly. Nicely done!
I see God!
it makes me really wanna brush my teeth more often. they should show this to kids, or anyone!
now that all of my teeth are removed i can see where i went wrong as a child eating candy. Brushing doesn't help.
X-TREME CLOSE-UP!! WWWWWHOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAA
Where can I get a 2,000,000x zoom camera?...that would be great
Umm, shopped? The shadows were a little wonky.
Besides that, cool video.
Stumbled this and will definitely show this to my middle school science class. Too bad they can't blaze and watch. That was incredible.
wowwww!!! that's amazing ... up to the atomic level!!!
Thomas