Date:         Mon, 4 Jun 2001 21:46:41 -0500
Reply-To:     Marshall Ruskin <mjruskin@HOME.COM>
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From:         Marshall Ruskin <mjruskin@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Re: how many photographers are among us?
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I guess, in a sense I can be called a photographer, too.

In the early 90's, I developed, and published a CD-ROM called "Images from
the Edge".

It was, and still remains - totally unique.

I was into a new technology called "Scanning Probe Microscopy" or SPM. This
is a special type of microscope that creates quantitative maps of the
elevation of surfaces - extremely small surfaces - sub-nanometer - if you
want. Arrays of atoms in a lattice structure, for example. Images not only
of physical structures, but magnetic fields and capacitance, etc, too.
Doesn't use a lense, uses a probe that rasters across the surface.

Anyhow, I got these datasets of spm data from researchers all over the
world - and then I made 3-d mesh models of them, whch I then rendered,
false-coloured, and illuminated. (On a Silicon Graphics Indigo computer).

To make a long story short - the images were beautiful. One of them was used
as a cover for "Physics Today" magazine.

That image was a beautiful, mysterious rendering of a single CD pit from
Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" CD. (Not just any cd bit, you understand).

My favorite is a silicon surface, it looks like cumulous clouds, and you can
see the missing atoms (defects) in the surface clearly as holes, and you can
totally see the 7X7 atomic lattice structure.

Once company bought 1000 of my CD's to resell, - since they were going to
make a product like mine anyways - why not just resell mine?

The company? Spyglass Inc of Champaign-Urbana, noteable for being the
company that licensed Mosiac to Microsoft (check your IE for copyright
credits) and also the very first dot-com to go public.

They subsequently had me do a CD especially for them called "Frontiers", but
that's another story I'll have to save for later.

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jenny Loerzel" <jensmiles2@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 2:52 PM
Subject: how many photographers are among us?


> Hey,
> I have noticed that many of us on this fine list are photographers, but
> exactly how many is the question.  I am a professional wedding
photographer,
> among other things :-)
>
> How many other photographers do we have out there?
>
> Take care and happy shooting, (photographs, that is)
> Jen Loerzel
> Karma Rose '87 Westy
> Chicago, IL
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