Mystery Micro Object

[@visualchallenge2413]

A good one ! Just an idea that you may like for future video (if you have time) : What if you introduce a little camera into a big tomato or a big pepper and film the seeds floating and with the only light shining on them is the light that filter through the skin of the pepper or tomato from an outside lamp or from sunlight ?

[@NickMoore]

To get a shot from inside would take a probe lens but they start around $2k. I have seen something similar though where fruit is sliced and then pressed against a sheet of glass, if the slice is thin enough you can see the internal structures when lit from behind.

[@chinaman1]

Sorry guys. Just my hemorrhoid. I'll push it back in.

[@JimBryson1]

In my family we would often call the arils rubies.

[@NickMoore]

They do look a lot like minerals.

[@AlaskaSkidood]

I was guessing peeled grape. Good job.

[@NickMoore]

I'm curious what a peeled grape looks like now.

[@AlaskaSkidood]

@@NickMoore Me too. I thought it looked like the beginning of this video.

[@vodiak]

Neat. I would enjoy this as a series.

[@NickMoore]

I could probably find a few more mystery objects

[@dysonbros]

Cool, mildly eerie

[@NickMoore]

Tastes good too.

[@joostvanwijk3842]

Wow Nick, i did not expect that at all. Nice video.

[@NickMoore]

Thanks, I thought the long structures were really cool. Glad you liked it!

[@RubixB0y]

Well I was going to say "definitely a pomegranate," but this was like a quizbowl question where you better know the answer by the end

[@NickMoore]

If you think about the feeling of squishing one between your teeth, the tiny compartmental structure makes sense. I always thought it was weird how they didn't pop like tiny balloons.

[@dcallan812]

mmmmmmmm food

[@piranha031091]

Have you tried focal stacking?

[@NickMoore]

I did a while ago but I don't know what software package I should be using lately. The one I used to use hasn't been updated in years.

[@sciencoking]

That was fun!

[@Muonium1]

Looks like a botryoidal mineral microscopically

[@NickMoore]

I was thinking it was more like columnar jointed glass.

[@btfx]

On my first watch, I misinterpreted the lighting in the pre-reveal scene, and thought the "mountain" of each seed was a "valley" or depression in the surface. For a few seconds I was convinced you had carefully removed all the seeds from a strawberry, leaving its surface a grid of fleshy craters.

[@KowboyUSA]

Either an alien life-form or a pomegranate. Possibly both.

[@NickMoore]

Alien egg pods.

[@brainfornothing]

Hehehe ! In the 11th second was pretty obvious, is very common here in Spain. My father used to say if you drop pomegranate juice in your clothes you will never be able to remove it; I never tested that... Yet ! Hehehe ! Thank you for sharing !

[@NickMoore]

It is 100% true, you can never get that juice off of a surface. I need to repaint my kitchen after splitting this one.

[@brainfornothing]

@@NickMoore Wow ! :O Thank you, so I don't need to test it, Hehehe ! By the way, I'm watching right now this : [ kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKGYdmqfjd2Yh6c ] Maybe you like it. Take care and enjoy your day !

[@Joe_Blo]

Thought it was a bloody abrasion.

[@NickMoore]

I'll try to pick less meat-like objects in the future.

[@DoNotPushHere]

Nnnice!! And I don't know why, but I got it pretty soon... Is it the season over there too?

[@NickMoore]

I don't think they grow anywhere in Canada but they always show up around October. I thought the tiny filaments were pretty strange.

[@DoNotPushHere]

@@NickMoore and they are! Btw what happened to the supersonic cannon of science?

[@NickMoore]

It's still packed up from the move (a year ago). I'll hopefully be setting it up again next spring. I want to try to get a schliren video of the ball.

[@DoNotPushHere]

@@NickMoore I've got my own set of cannons (not vacuum, just pressure) and I thought about making schlieren photography too, but I don't find a good ratio between cheap mirror and good schlieren effect. Any clues?

[@NickMoore]

I got a 4inch mirror from Aliexpress. It was the cheapest I have ever seen and was worth way more than its price.

[@jcims]

I don't know where you got the idea but it turned out amazing!!! Love it! Also I couldn't figure it out until basically you gave it away haha.

[@NickMoore]

It was not what I was expecting at all when I first got it in focus.

[@JimGriffOne]

I just about got it near the end! Nice macro shots Nick.

[@NickMoore]

Thanks, I saw a magnified image on Reddit and immediately bought one so I could throw it under the microscope. It was super satisfying to scan around and explore the internal structure.

[@johnpossum556]

Good seeing some content from you again, Nick. Great photography. At first I thought it might be rubies, then maybe taste cells on a tongue and finally a pomegranate.

[@NickMoore]

Oh man, the surface of a tongue is pretty horrifying. Maybe I'll do that next.

[@johnpossum556]

@@NickMoore When I was in Cub Scouts they would show us a real beef tongue and tell us it was the big toe of Paul Bunyan or some humanoid like monster loose in the woods. I suppose it was designed to keep us in camp.

[@Si-Al-Ti]

I had no idea they’re built up like that! The music fit well :)) Almost felt the urge to rip some of the frames and focus stack away that shallow depth of field... hmm.

[@NickMoore]

I was thinking about focus stacking as well but I'm not sure what the latest and greatest is in stacking software. Particularly for *nix platforms.

[@NevinWilliams71]

@@NickMoore I use 'align_image_stack', a command line tool in the open-source Hugin image-stitching package. (which itself might do stacking with a GUI, but I mostly just use the command.

[@NickMoore]

Awesome, thanks! I use Hugin all the time, I never thought to use the tools on their own.