Microscopy animation using sequential jpeg images

by Dave Walker, UK

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Figure 1: Muscovite mica (biaxial).
Back focal plane of 40x/NA0.74 objective. Sequence to show how the interference pattern (conoscopic image) changes as the mica is rotated between the crossed polars.
(24 jpeg images, each 10kbytes, at 15° rotation intervals of the stage with crossed polarisation filters set)
'Image Cycler' script written by D Keith Higgs. One of the free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source.  

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