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The Insect Portraits of Levon Biss
- Luyt 10y agoHe makes 30 microscopic pictures of a beetle, pastes them together, prints it on huge panels (for a museum exhibition). But you can also view them on the website, including at high zoom levels.
- gus_massa 10y agoTo see all the images, you must click the "Explore" title with a hamburger icon at the top. [It's a strange design, and I needed a long time to figure it out.]
- lfender6445 10y agoSo the final image is composed of other images pieced together? This makes me feel like the final product is closer to an illusion than what the insect would look like at higher zoom levels. Regardless the outcome was stunning
- sohkamyung 10y agoThat is unavoidable when doing extreme macrophotography work; only a tiny portion of a 3D object in the image will be in focus, so you need to 'focus stack' multiple images to get a single good image. In a way, his work is giving the illusion of enlarging insects until you can see the details with just the naked eye. Just magnifying the insects, like you would to see it through a microscope, will mean that you have to constantly adjust the focus of the microscope to see the different parts of the insect.
- solipsism 10y agoSatellite imagery is also an illusion then.
- eutectic 10y agoI wonder how much of the process could be automated.