wallpaper

http://students.washington.edu/asarnat/wallpaper/untitled1.jpg

designed for 1280x1024

Uhm.....Now what is THAT supposed to be? If I look extremely close and for a long time, I can see several nuclear mushrooms after a bomb blasted of everywhere or something. Too uhm.....noisy picture for me to enjoy it. But then again, it may be just what it was supposed to look like.....Or not?

It's the same image that's in my sig. It's what I call a slightly abstract 3d rendering (MAX 3.1 w/ DOF Pro). It's supposed to look like a photo taken through an electron microscope. Decide for yourself what you think it is..... because it's not supposed to be anything in particular.

Anyway it's the desktop that I use and it works great if you keep all your icons lined up on the left and I have winamp and trillian stacked on the right.

Just because I use SEM's and it's sort of bugging me... SEM images are usually very sharp and crisp. You wouldn't really have that haze around the particle. But besides that it looks good. I've seen pollen images that look something like that.

Yeah. they are sharper. I just added the film grain and gaussian blur because I thought it made for a better wallpaper ;)

That's cool that you work with them. What do those machines look like anyway? Are they pretty big?

Like most things they're smaller than the used to be. About the size of a desk and 6' high. Anything you want to look at has to be conductive so if it's an insect or a plant it has to be coated with gold first. The sample goes into a vacuum chamber and the electron gun shoots down on it. The electron coming off the sample are read by the scanner and sent to the screen. Well, thats a simple way to explain it and probably more than you wanted to know.

I think its looks pretty good... but its kinda blurry/noisey... its a good consept, but nothing that i think i would use on my desktop... i dont know why... maybe its just to busy or something... but good design though.......