What's the difference between minerals and rocks?

[@gneissname]

Corrections: 2:15 I said Orthoclase feldspar, and meant plagioclase feldspar. 2:50 Quartz is not the most common mineral, silica tetrahedrons are the most common molecules. Plagioclase feldspar, a silicate mineral, is the most common mineral. 5:30 1 cm = 10 mm, not nanometers, just misspoke. 12:32 an angstrom is 0.1 nm not 0.01 nm, scale is correct just misspoke.

[@TM-45.]

Americans can't handle when things aren't measured in hot-dogs and amo sizes

[@grantarmstrong2968]

The imperial measurement system gets more convoluted by the day

[@ahorseirl7006]

I think you're incorrect about the claim you make around 14:55 that a hexagonal unit rotates as it tiles to fill space. Hexagonal unit cells fill all space purely by translation, just as every other unit cell does. This translation creates the "honeycomb" symmetry on its own, without needing any sort of rotation. This is easier to see if you're looking at the atoms that are actually in the unit cell, rather than Minecraft glass blocks that have been squished and stretched. Great video though, I really enjoy your geology content!

[@ImpossibleEvan]

The third of a hexagon is what needs to rotated to make the hexagon ​@@ahorseirl7006

[@gneissname]

@@ahorseirl7006 Thanks, I understand what you mean. After getting most oft he way into making this episode I realized that I should have split them into two and given the crystals more attention.

[@Alumx]

Can't believe I'm living in the age of professional scientific documentaries in Minecraft form

[@cuboembaralhado8294]

Born just in time to be educated with entertainment

[@qwinlyn]

Have I got the treat for you. It’s called Magic Schoolbus. That show has been edutainment for years now.

[@TheStarMachine2000]

@@qwinlyn Fair, but it was also more entertainment with lessons, this is lessons that are entertaining

[@HyperDash]

Alumx? The crossover episodes are happening in real life now...

[@flavioryu5922]

Minecraft has actually been used as an education tool for some years now, at least in north Europe. There's lots of events and private teachers that use minecraft to teach some things. I also think there is a specific minecraft version made for kids to learn stuff, i dont remember the name but its on the wiki

[@DanYami]

Mojang added display entities and this guy UNLEASHED his true power

[@gneissname]

I think the funniest thing is when they were added I thought "well that's cool, idk who would use them or for what"

[@Pigness7]

They're minerals Marie! Jokes aside the little room was sick.

[@spectrelex3051]

was looking for this comment ha

[@georgeofhamilton]

Minebad

[@jeremyscungio16]

Surprised this comment was so far down

[@angeloid_]

was gonna post this comment, you already posted it. was gonna post this reply, but others also already posted it. oh well. 👍i suppose we were all thinking it

[@andrewmatteson8993]

Ngl, the change in scale here is cooler that most full size comparison videos

[@cucginel1941]

they put me in a room, a tiny room, a room filled with minerals

[@z0ru4_]

…minerals make me crazy…

[@F2PAlius]

@@z0ru4_ crazy. I was crazy once.

[@ImSaswwewrOrAmI]

​@@F2PAliusthey put me in a room, a tiny room, a room filled with minerals

[@sugar9064]

​@@ImSaswwewrOrAmI and minerals make me crazy...

[@tristanblikman]

Crazy? I was crazy once…

[@n45a_]

I think with a scale like this you are required by law to show size of a modern transistor.

[@gneissname]

I actually did look into that. the whole "nm" process for chips doesn't actually equate to size, its more of a generation number. I did find some actual number for scale but then the physical shape wasn't clear so I ended up not doing it. If i do an actual episode on scale I'll add it.

[@TlalocTemporal]

A whole map dedicated to scale would be really cool. Quarks to Quasars and everything in-between.

[@n45a_]

Ye thats true. I think recently intel renamed its 10nm to intel 7 to be more in line with TSMC marketing

[@nicolaskeck5863]

​@@n45a_To be fair, even in older pdks the process length only really indicated the minimum width of the transistor. The length is basically required to be 3x that size, and you are able to increase the width as well. The length naming is basically an anachronism from a time where the challenges in the field were much more relevant to just plain size reduction.

[@metadragon7500]

@@TlalocTemporalkzbin.info/www/bejne/sKGVhnl-equHgrcsi=88Fhx7vhukPM4jRz unfortunately it's limited to normal minecraft. would be interesting to see how things from atoms to stars would be rendered though

[@Dingyfried]

At the risk of contributing to the unnecessarily colloquial nature of all these overlapping and loosely-defined terms... this channel is a gem.

[@TlalocTemporal]

It is very pretty, yes.

[@SamJNE122]

But NOT a mineral.

[@CreatorofSecks]

Would those terms qualify as sediment?

[@quietsamurai1998]

Yeah, this video rocks

[@cherno8119]

Gemmy with coalish qualities thoughbeit

[@kingoftherevolution4855]

Learning geology through Minecraft at 2:00 a.m. like a real human

[@greekpotato6522]

Same but at 4 :)

[@TeraChad23]

Same but at midnight

[@calebrey]

Watching at almost 2:00 am as well.

[@DisconnectedYoutube]

3 months late at 4:59 AM

[@jenniferkorf4767]

Same,

[@RogatkaWR]

The animations you make with the blocks and items in your video is so cool and I don't think I've seen anybody else use display entities or whatever you use like this. Keep it up!

[@akitoryuka15160]

It's either display enthusiasts or he's using mods like patchouli and immersive portals. Edit: pehuki, not patchouli. realized while debugging a pack

[@snailymitch]

@@akitoryuka15160 he uses display entities, he made a whole video about how he does the rescaling and moving block stuff, theres even a world download you can check out

[@mtarek2005]

it's apparently a simple effect compared to the others in the vid

[@BamHurgr]

1:12 ROCK AND STONE ⛏

[@georgevasilopoulos5359]

FOR KARL

[@ModerationLabs]

FOR ROCK AND STONE

[@unconscious5630]

ROCK. AND. STOOOOONE

[@syderotyko]

If you don't rock and stone, you ain't going home✊⛏️

[@dmitriyivanov5441]

DID I HEAR ROCK AND STONE?!

[@patroka]

Wow. I came into the video expecting a regular explanation of rock, but instead got one of the most interesting size visualizations I’ve ever seen. (In addition to a very good explanation of minerals and crystals!) Well done! In fact, so well done that I almost wonder if you should update the title or thumbnail to sell the amazing video a bit better :P

[@gneissname]

Thank, the scale thing started out as a way to just make the atomic size interesting and I just wanted to pull a few other topics together. Then it sort of became most of the episode. Maybe I’ll do a video just on scale sometime but include the large scales too.

[@joshmerchant8737]

8:50 once again, anything mentioning geologists in the field *literally* cant avoid mentioning you geologists do actually eat rocks :P . this is how i know you are truly legit

[@lucas23453]

We gotta get the guy who is trying to eat wood to team up with geologists, so we can make bread with both lime AND sawdust.

[@thecloudwyrm7966]

Dude, these videos are just spectacular. You put so much effort into them and I love watching them. I can NOT wait until you start getting millions upon millions of views on every new video

[@brugbo613]

Yeah, seriously!

[@runforitman]

6:13 This is called a diamond PenTile matrix, descendant of the Bayer filter. They take advantage of the fact that our eyes are more sensitive to green light, over blue or red.

[@nyuh]

oh my godd hello????!?!?!? those animations and models are crazy what?? this mustve taken so long to program. i love how understadable the explanations are while at the same time still going deep into it or at least show you how deep it can go. feels like part of a curriculum its so good. that was a whole journey if your goal was to make people excited about geology youve succeeded really really well like holy shit rocks rock!! cant wait to see the next installment!!

[@gneissname]

hi, thank you.

[@WoolyCow]

"hey why didnt you come out with us the other night?" "uhh, i was watching this video about rocks...?"

[@Bob-bs9ok]

Should of brought them to watch a rock solid video.

[@jenniferkorf4767]

That would rock! I mean that memory would forever be quite the gem, setting your friendship in stone

[@manas7372]

Honestly, the unit cell visualization is such interesting and intuitive way of teaching lattice types and cell packing. Every chem/physics student who has difficulty visualizing lattice structures should see this.

[@LexicaLovesick]

5:56 CRT displays don't really have "pixels" in the traditional sense, so saying that the resolution is 640x480 would be inaccurate. The image is formed by having a continuously scanning beam scroll horizontally across the screen, and divided into 525 rows or "scanlines". Seeing as the lines scanned are continuous, they do not have a horizontal resolution (not to say they can have infinite detail, the beam is only so fine, and the beams can only react to a changing signal amplitude so fast, we call this limited horizontal """resolution""" the dot pitch). Not all of these lines would contain picture information, and even fewer of them were intended to be seen due to overscan. This is because not all TVs were configured all too precisely, meaning the image might be a bit larger, smaller, higher, or lower, and people didn't like the idea of potentially having black bars near the edges of the screen. The number 480 for vertical resolution came about because it was a good estimate of how many lines were visible by most displays. We call this "Standard Definition". The horizontal resolution of 640 likely came about because of video digitisation. People like the pixels of digital video files to be perfectly square (although they don't necessarily have to be) so that the image doesn't need to be asymmetrically scaled in order to be seen correctly. Since standard definition was given a vertical resolution of 480, and TVs were made to be an aspect ratio of 4:3, it's easy to derive a horizontal resolution: 480*(4/3)=640. What you see when you look at a colour CRT may look like pixels, as there are red, green, and blue stripes (or dots) in a regular pattern, but this would be incorrect. These are a result of a metal sheet with holes in it called the shadowmask, which is responsible for blocking the three electron beams from certain angles so that each one hits the correctly coloured phosphors. It does not directly translate to image quality.

[@ezdispenser]

very interesting!

[@bugjams]

This is what I love about science discussions. When different people, each with their own hyper-specific knowledge, come together to analyze the whole truth of something. Everyone is correcting each other, but nobody is mad. Everyone learns something, and the whole group becomes smarter for it.

[@fireworkstarter]

Crt's have 3 times the pixels confirmed

[@TellowKrinkle]

To help illustrate this, if you look up macro pictures of CRTs, you can see that the pixels cover many smaller rgb elements, which are positioned completely independently from the positioning of the pixels (e.g. with some having the upper half lit by one pixel and the lower half lit by a different pixel).

[@NCSGeek]

The effects here are seriously impressive.

[@ENDESGA]

17:34 *DODECAHEDRA REPRESENT*

[@nullandvoid7881]

LETS GOOOO greatest platonic solid of all time!!! love your profile pic :D

[@shavranotheferanox7809]

Ok, we NEED a behind the scenes of that tiny room, that was AWSOME

[@Pyritie]

He's made a previous video showing how he does effects like this!

[@gneissname]

Thanks, I'll be making an unlisted "extra gneiss" video on it in a week or so.

[@shavranotheferanox7809]

@@gneissname where can i find this video now?

[@gneissname]

@ sorry, I got wrapped up in some other projects for real life and Minecraft and never recorded it. Maybe I can do it this weekend, I still have my notes.

[@flaym.]

As a chemist, seeing such a clear and concise visualisation of scale and crystal structures was absolutely amazing - I'll definitely be sharing this video around

[@opalpersonal]

nothing blows my mind more than when something is NOT the size of a block in minecraft. totally amazing- i learned a lot!❤

[@gneissname]

i did giggle to myself when i saw the tiny bacteria the first time.

[@JackFoxtrotEDM]

"Molly carries minerals, and we shoot bugs and mine! Dwarf life in a nutshell." "Where do all these minerals go?" "Wait! What is the difference between rock and stone?" "At least we don't have to haul all these minerals around ourselves." "I was made for mining! Molly was meant for hauling what I mine!" "I'm glad we have someone to carry our rocks and stones!" "If we discover a new mineral, you think we get to name it?"

[@VoxAstra-qk4jz]

"Legally speaking, rocking is more legal than stoning!"

[@ghastdude589]

Ugh, I think I slept on me bloody pickaxe!

[@mineplayer111]

"ROCK AND STONE!"

[@jooot_6850]

You shouldn't eat precious minerals! It will get you killed!

[@vicenteperez2136]

3:34 the idea of geologists eating dirt and sand to test its grit makes me think you guys were the kids that ate sand in the playground and loved it

[@ilimes]

your in-game demonstrations are brilliant. really appreciate all the detail you put into them.

[@zekiz774]

I recently discovered your channel because I wanted to learn more about color spaces (OKLAB specifically) and I really think you're filling a nieche that nobody has touched before. Making science videos with minecraft animations is something I've never seen before and you're explaining everything so well

[@nullandvoid7881]

this, 100%

[@Alexzoidberg458]

8:38 geologist never beating the dirt eater allegations

[@j.n.-fr5uh]

bro youre so good at this, i didnt expect you to be a cool geologist and a creative minecraft presenter at the same time thats so impressive

[@NeaLx86]

i love your videos so much

[@Alchiter]

bro explained his whole job on a kids game. you're a genius man, i love this video

[@tuskiomisham]

Odd. Diamond and emerald are composed crystalline structures, but they aren't crystals?

[@gneissname]

diamond is, the game item is a cut diamond so i only listed items in one area. Emerald is specifically the name of green gem quality mineral beryl, but yes its also a crystal and a mineral and could also be a rock.

[@tuskiomisham]

​​@@gneissnameah. I need to read more in this it's all still confusing. very fun to watch though. at the very least I learned how to determine if mineral or not a mineral

[@dymaxion3988]

@@gneissnameThis is where a big complex venn diagram chart would come in handy, but I don’t know if making that in minecraft would work very well.

[@serioussponge6416]

I always found it a fascinating juxtaposition that when you get down to a small enough scale, natural formations start appearing more artificial in shape as they lose the room for complexity offered by scale. You look at a cell in your body under a microscope and it appears like some blob-like shape but then when you examine the finer components that make up that cell, they look almost like parts you'd find in the engine of a car. Looking at the arrangements of molecules that make up those parts, they remind me of Tinkertoys.

[@Binikeabenik]

You make these educational videos really fun (love the shrinking noise)

[@gneissname]

Thank you, @Dingyfried made the sound for me.

[@adiabeticjedi3278]

THAT FINAL "SHWALOOP" SOUND WHEN YOU FINISHED THE QUARTZ CUBE WAS asmr LEVELS OF SATISIFYING.

[@cattunger]

I'm halfway through and I only just now realized why it's called "the little room". Great work as usual :)

[@milz.V2]

I always love watching your videos, keep up the good work man

[@adityajain1211]

This needs to be in schools This is what minecraft education edition needs to be about

[@TBNAfrangsYT]

1:43 “In general, that means it can’t be by an organism. Whether that’s-“ *PVZ notification appears*

[@NeutralityTsar]

Amazing video! The scaling room is superb. I've seen things like that on different websites before, but seeing it in Minecraft is really something else.

[@ModerationLabs]

hi dodeca

[@rainbowlack]

​@@ModerationLabsis that labs from the hit discord user labs????

[@ModerationLabs]

@@rainbowlack possibly

[@An_Alias]

This is about 90% of my mineralogy class condensed down into a bite sized, easily understandable video. Serious props to you.

[@NeaLx86]

geologists eat dirt??? 😭

[@ModerationLabs]

i mean what did you expect

[@tornadomash00]

it is how we do the science

[@NotABean_]

science relies on sense, how could we identify anything if we couldn't use our eyes to observe properties, taste and mouthfeel is just an extension of that! and yes, we do like to snack on dirt from time to time

[@Lemonnitenite]

Dirt yummy

[@BryanLu0]

They also like to lick rocks

[@potatoking5602]

I keep forgetting just how small this channel still is, all of these videos are just amazing and you have a marvellous way to grab people's attention

[@eiknarfp6391]

Good news, the clay I thought was missing was just in my closet, and it’s still wet!

[@ryanthescion]

:o this video is so insanely good, excited to see it hit 1million views at some point

[@gaymeeko]

Its a good day when Gneiss uploads :)

[@ecogreen123]

you could say it's a Gneiss day.

[@gaymeeko]

@@ecogreen123 😉

[@SZvenM]

This video is super neat! All your videos are fascinating to watch, but the shrinking in this one is just awesome! One of my favourite educators ever :)

[@ecogreen123]

YEA MINERALS AND ROCKS!

[@swedneck]

MINERALS AND ROCKS, IN MY SOCKS FOR CAROL!

[@seandorr7564]

This is one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen. Thank you for what you do, this rocks!

[@AnAbsolutelyRandomGuy]

I find it funny that I see this video, because I recently started playing terrafirmacraft (minecraft mod) which, has geology. It has teached me what is: Igenous extrusive/intrusive, metamorphic, sedimentary. Both igenous are kinda connected. For example below extrusive is usually intrusive

[@vUniity]

Having the comparisons to a bunch of different fields was awesome because I might not understand the initial size reference but I do have a understanding of the parts of the eye so I was able to understand the comparison! Awesome video as always!

[@dimethylglymaxim2369]

Imagine all power point presentations were like that...

[@ExplodingDarth]

This is so detailed, every second of it seemingly has hours of work behind it, it feels illegal to be watching this for free

[@ClangPan]

23:42 you cheeky you

[@frederiklenk7756]

Ha!

[@krazzorkunashagi6426]

I wouldn't ever guess that today I would learn SO MUCH in just 23 minutes. Thanks.

[@VankoGN]

0:24 should've added rockhumans from JJBA

[@roof_of_the_fop]

the production quality of this video is phenomenal! honestly this video is a great demonstration of the posibilities for in-game visual effects for creating videos and interactive learning

[@refreey]

16:38 you're just flexing! HOW DO YOU MAKE THESE THINGS

[@TheRenaSystem]

Your visuals and presentation style are spectacular as always!! Ty for making educational content of this caliber free and publicly accessible!

[@apia46]

during the starting bit you shouldve included the country iraq

[@thephoenixking1086]

We have Minecraft EDU but it does not come CLOSE to how educational and well made these videos are, I am just impressed with the shear amount of work being done to make these videos.

[@ferrisffalcis]

dedicating the rest of my life to creating an artificial mountain so that in 10,000 years archaeologists think it's a new mineral

[@commpisto5948]

The sound design in this video is absolutely phenomenal!

[@grassy764]

i'm a mineral

[@ModerationLabs]

hey i know you!

[@grassy764]

​@@ModerationLabs yeah, im like.. famous or something

[@ModerationLabs]

@@grassy764well you were lucky enough to get in an ending clip of a gneiss vid so i guess so

[@siobibblecoms]

:gnawdropped: grassy is here!

[@rainbowlack]

hi grassy

[@patardlelephant9309]

I'm a ceramist, and I have a wood firing kiln that fire up to 1300° celsius, I use a lot of feldspar, lime, kaolin,... and oxyde to create glaze that melt correctly. I really enjoy this video. by watching it I want to study a lot more geology cause I feel it could be really useful to find new glaze by a better knowledge of rock formation around my workshop. thanks ! and good job for the editing.

[@moosetwin]

There's an issue at 0:23, you say there is a human, but there is nothing but a blank white square. Did you forget the image?

[@whyismynamehere]

Are you thinking of john cena “you cant see me” meme?

[@aurorapaisley7453]

This ain't it chief 😭

[@Josephsflock]

It’s amazing how well Minecraft can be used for teaching, it’s really visual and your demonstrations are great. It’s no wonder some European schools use Minecraft for teaching certain subjects.

[@ModerationLabs]

i got here in 8 seconds yet i will never get top comment because i’m too unfunny to think of something that should get it

[@slitwristsanctuary]

Nope

[@bbittercoffee]

Dang it Second (20 seconds)

[@Dingyfried]

Hi Labs!

[@siobibblecoms]

just make rock puns smh

[@ModerationLabs]

@@Dingyfried hi dingyfried!

[@rileymichael2694]

I am blown away by the amount of effort that goes into these videos. Wow. I’m a biologist who never really found geology interesting until I came across your channel, so thank you for making these and helping me learn more about a field I might not have ever been taught about otherwise.

[@minerat27]

Oh man, I was enjoying this video and all of a sudden I was attacked by unit cells and inorganic chemistry flashbacks! Another amazing video Gneiss, your ability to utilise Minecraft for visualisations never ceases to amaze me.

[@sequinbandit2097]

I love how you’re able to do all of these cool tricks with Minecraft to make your video topics so interesting and accessible!

[@StyTheMage]

These visuals are stunning! Thank you for the clear explanation

[@timothynoll4886]

"Gneiss." Love it lol; also props for all the insane work you put in these vids! They're super fun and interesting!

[@squarebarreloffrogs]

I can’t imagine the effort that went into the in-game demonstrations, this is fantastic!

[@Woedenaz]

I'm only halfway through and this is already one of the coolest science-related videos I've ever seen. It is positively brilliant to use Minecraft in this way to teach a topic like this. Just genius. I genuinely have no clue how you managed to make the Little Room. I can only guess that it's visual tricks and the cuts are hiding some swaps between alternate rooms but... I dunno, maybe not! So cool! Edit: Okay I got to the end and you said this is a REAL WORLD that we can experience??? This is wild.

[@blarpnarp]

possibly one of your trippiest videos yet... grooovy man

[@davidcrossgrove5041]

I never thought rocks were that cool, just obsidian and the sugar crystal science experiments we did in school. Now I know that rocks are much more complex, having what could be a whole museum of minerals (if you were small enough to enjoy them)! Thank you Gneiss for awakening a new understanding of the world around us!

[@savdebunnies]

Bruh, your videos are too good. I've watched so so many videos that talk about the elctromagnetic wave lenth scale but this is the first one I've seen that clearly, directly explain that things smaller than the visable light spectrum can't been seen optically because of that.

[@Thechillilover]

Your animation skills are awesome, even though im not that into geology, its fun to watch!

[@nullandvoid7881]

incredible work once again, your presentations absolutely blow me away every time

[@runekongstadlarsen7569]

a fucking amazing video. this is a piece of art sir, hope you are proud of yourself for this masterpiece

[@OversizedPringleToe]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! These are my childhood dream videos!

[@thechainhound5510]

so happy a friend showed me this channel, incredible job!

[@ezekielrauch3703]

You are the singular most inspiring youtuber. Ever. You put such a massively high degree of effort into every video, and your qualifications only add to your astounding biography. You are what I aspire to be. Keep up the good work.

[@RichConnerGMN]

this is getting ridiculous, the production quality... i have no words. i don't even know how you did the in-game effects here. and the builds, the casual presentation juxtaposed against the professional visuals, and all of it being in minecraft, idek man. it's incredible

[@monapump2635]

I have never learned about geology in-depth, I really really love the oceans, and took an Oceanography class this high school year. I think I would be really confused and a little disappointed (I'm more of a marine biology type of person), but your videos have really helped with my understanding of geology, and has helped me really enjoy the class. Your videos are really good, I hope you keep it up.

[@Flameb0yant]

Please keep making these videos! They're super informative and a new dynamic way to learn. 🙂

[@ImpossibleEvan]

I love geology, i use knowledge here to do some world building, I love how you use the largest game on the planet to teach it

[@unseenhaze]

insanely great production value man super well done

[@marvin.marciano]

your didatics is amazing. please, make a series teaching us how to create datapacks like these, they are genuinely awesome.

[@mikanoko4990]

I literally just ended up finding this channel because of Dwarf Fortress, have no idea about Geology and Generally was just wondering "Why is Metal X better at being a sword than Y, whats a rock and whats a gem, why is this rock better than that rock" and all that now i can finally also explain to people the difference of a mineral and a rock XD

[@LokarinOn]

probably my favorite video from you so far

[@tyjytjafdf689]

I don't work in geology or anything directly related to it, i don't even collect rocks. I barely play minecraft and certainly would never bother to mod it. Yet, when Gneiss uploads, here i am - every time.

[@YourLocalMedic]

The quality of these videos always blows me away given they're hobby videos made in Minecraft of all things. But it's honestly a super great engine for it that seems to be able to suit your needs well, and keeps people engaged because who doesn't love Minecraft?

[@benismann]

The visual effects in the room were crazy, good job!

[@KandraKelsier]

I have a grad degree in materials science, and this was a fantastic video, the kind I wish I had when I was working through school! Its cool to see the similarities and differences between geology and MatSci, as well as their intersection in crystallography and classifications. Love it!

[@shitpostbotmin]

your videos are absolutely insane, incredibly creative presentation and super informative. keep going!

[@SuperLlama88888]

Amazing production quality!!!! This is the kind of stuff that should be in Minecraft Education. Thank you for this wonderfully educative video!

[@ginzburgnathan]

The effort you put into these, power to you man. This channel is a gem ;)