Photography Showcase: A Different Perspective

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The discussion revolves around the appreciation of photography from unique perspectives, particularly how a friend's approach to capturing the mundane has inspired a new outlook on the world. Participants share and guess the nature of various photographs, focusing on extreme close-ups and unusual angles that transform ordinary subjects into intriguing images. A specific photo, initially a mystery, is revealed to be a shot of a windshield at night, showcasing rain patterns and reflections. The conversation continues with guesses about other images, emphasizing the fun of seeing familiar objects in new ways. The thread highlights the joy of photography as a medium for exploring and reinterpreting everyday life, encouraging others to share their own unique perspectives through images.
  • #51
DaveC426913 said:
I was gonig to say it's a pic down into a drinking glass, but if that's a reflection of the flash, thast would suggest it is much farther away and much larger.
Yep, that's what I was thinking. Gokul, is that something that a normal human would encounter on a daily basis? :wink:
 
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  • #52
Evo said:
My guess was my disposal, except without a bottom. :bugeye:
I do plumbing. :biggrin:

Gokul said:
Hint: the tiny, white speck inside the "ring" is a reflection of the camera flash.
Shower drain? Or it's a cup of tea/coffee or chocolate/cocoa sitting in a drain.

GeoMike said:
It is an ice/frost build up, but in this case it is natural. Any guesses about what material the ice build up is on?
Metal or wood. The lines look a little like radiator fins or wood shingles.
 
  • #53
Evo said:
Yep, that's what I was thinking. Gokul, is that something that a normal human would encounter on a daily basis? :wink:
If he drinks in the sink or shower. :biggrin:
 
  • #54
This is pretty cool! I remember they used to do this on TV,
where they showed you a closeup photo of a common object and have
folks guess what it was.

I don't recall which show it was on though. Perhaps some of you
may remember. :rolleyes:
 
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PF060908mystery.jpg
 
  • #56
Astronuc said:
Metal or wood. The lines look a little like radiator fins or wood shingles.
Yes, it's wood!

Ok, here are the larger images for the ones that were correctly guessed:
#2 Rime Ice on a trail sign: http://www.mcschell.com/guess2_full.jpg
#3 Rusted rock surface: http://www.mcschell.com/guess3_full.jpg
#5 Eroded rock near the ocean: http://www.mcschell.com/guess5_full.jpg

-GeoMike-
 
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  • #57
Normal humans work in physics labs everyday, right? The fuzzy white thing inside the ring is a common enough substance, but the specific arrangement it appears in is probably uncommon. No, it's not a pic down a drinking glass. And no, I do not drink in the depths of my In-Sink-erator!
I'll post another view when I get home in a little bit.

Geo: #3 is some kind of ferritic rock, #4 is something organic (frogskin's a good guess), #5 is igneous

Dave: that sure as hell looks like artificial color; damned if it isn't; and since I'm almost certain you're going to say it isn't, I guess "damned" I shall be.

EDIT: Oops! Didn't read Geo's last post
 
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  • #58
I would have thought #1 of Geo's picture was a picture of a brass doorknob, but then he said it was brown glass so I don't know.

#4
Well my original thought was the same as Franznietsche's. But since you said it wasn't a frog or a toad I've been struggling with it. The only other things I know live in water are water snakes, eels and fish and they wouldn't look like that. My only other guess is that it is a baby crocodile or something (because of those sharp looking edges in the top right-hand corner). I also have my doubts about that guess because I doub;t you'd be able to get that close to a baby crocodile and I don't think that they have those sorts of patterns on their skin.
 
  • #59
DaveC426913 said:
PF060908mystery.jpg

a shallow river filled with flat stones?
 
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  • #60
GeoMike said:
#2 Rime Ice on a trail sign: http://www.mcschell.com/guess 2_full.jpg[/URL]
#3 Rusted rock surface: http://www.mcschell.com/guess 3_full.jpg[/URL]
#5 Eroded rock near the ocean: [PLAIN]http://www.mcschell.com/gues...rs ago. The industries moved south and west.
 
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  • #61
Gokul43201 said:
Normal humans work in physics labs everyday, right?
What makes you say that? :biggrin:
Gokul43201 said:
The fuzzy white thing inside the ring is a common enough substance, but the specific arrangement it appears in is probably uncommon. No, it's not a pic down a drinking glass. And no, I do not drink in the depths of my In-Sink-erator!
So it is a sink drain?

I don't quite get - "The fuzzy white thing inside the ring is a common enough substance" - there is a brown liquid surrounded by a white ring. The white speck is a reflection of the flash.
 
  • #62
#1 looks like a glass doorknob (I see a moulding seam)
#4 looks like the carapace of a crustacean
 
  • #63
DaveC426913 said:
PF060908mystery.jpg
This looks like you took a picture through a window of a vehicle that has been shrink-wrapped for storage.
 
  • #64
DaveC426913's picture looks like some kind of plastic which melted away from little holes, but I think it is ice on a window.
 
  • #65
This looks like you took a picture through a window of a vehicle that has been shrink-wrapped for storage.
Excellent guess! About as close as you'll come.

I won't torture y'all with this one too long since this isn't a "natural" phenom.

It's a vinyl sign stuck to a window (badly, I would say) but viewed from the other side.
PF060908mystery2.jpg
 
  • #67
Pressurized gas chamber.
 
  • #68
turbo-1 said:
#1 looks like a glass doorknob (I see a moulding seam)
#4 looks like the carapace of a crustacean

#1 Nope. Another hint. It is glass, it's hollow, and there is something inside of it (which is also hollow, and also glass).

#2 Yes! A crab.
large image: http://www.mcschell.com/guess4_full.jpg

-GeoMike-
 
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  • #69
I guess nobody else remembers this on TV. Perhaps it was on a local station. Lots of fun trying to guess the objects.. :-p

Ouabache said:
This is pretty cool! I remember they used to do this on TV,
where they showed you a closeup photo of a common object and have
folks guess what it was.

I don't recall which show it was on though. Perhaps some of you
may remember. :rolleyes:
 
  • #70
I think Gokul is showing us what a Dewar of liquid nitrogen looks like.
 
  • #71
GeoMike's #1 looks like the bottom of a thermos liner (minus the metal outer shell).
 
  • #72
turbo-1 said:
GeoMike's #1 looks like the bottom of a thermos liner (minus the metal outer shell).

Nope.

I cropped the original photo because there was a big clue on the section I cropped out.
So, here is the uncropped photo:
http://www.mcschell.com/guess1_full.jpg

-GeoMike-
 
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  • #73
turbo-1 said:
I think Gokul is showing us what a Dewar of liquid nitrogen looks like.
Zigackly! What a coincidence that Mk would start a thread on exactly the same thing!

The mouth of the LN2 dewar (with the stuff inside), allows a very pretty ball of water vapor to "crystallize" in it. You can just barely see the white, puffy cloud in those pics, the real thing is way prettier. And the neatest thing about it is that the ball, given a little time without disturbance, will develop this beautiful lattice structure. If you look hard, you can sort of tell this from the pic.

Here's a time-series of pictures taken in roughly 30 second intervals after disturbing a dewar:

1. Cloud of vapor just beginning to form:
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1961/img2637cx5.jpg

2. Cloud getting denser:
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/620/img2638th4.jpg

3. Ball-shaped cloud developing "crystal" structure:
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3082/img2641hk1.jpg
 
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  • #74
There's now some text "...L(?) I(?) F E S(?)" visible in Geo's picture, and the text is NOT reflected (laterally inverted)!
 
  • #75
GeoMike said:
Nope.

I cropped the original photo because there was a big clue on the section I cropped out.
So, here is the uncropped photo:

-GeoMike-
Ah yes, it looks like a lightbulb in an explosion-proof housing. Operating room?
 
  • #76
turbo-1 said:
Ah yes, it looks like a lightbulb in an explosion-proof housing. Operating room?

Close enough! It's a shot of the glass globe that covered the light bulb above the stairs in our old home. The picture was taken under the globe while looking straight up.
I'm not sure if it was explosion-proof (it came with the house).

-GeoMike-
 
  • #77
GeoMike said:
I'm not sure if it was explosion-proof (it came with the house).
:smile: Ha ha, :smile:
 
  • #79
No one has guessed this yet. Although Gokul was very close.

twisting_Edge said:
This one should be pretty easy for anyone with an interest in abstract geometry. You have to get the precise figure, though.
solo.jpg

Obviously, it's a construct sitting on top of my computer.
 
  • #80
Is it the trajectory of the "magic" bullet? that killed kennedy?
 
  • #81
The child that resulted from a mating of M.C. Escher and R. Buckminster Fuller?
 
  • #82
Evo said:
No one has guessed this yet. Although Gokul was very close.


solo.jpg
I got it! It's a dodecahedron extended into a star.

How I figured it out: Count the struts in each vertex: each has five. That means each vertex has a pentagonal cross-section. If you cut off the tips, you get all pentagons.

(And now that I know that, I can see that it also has 12 points, which is how many faces a ddh'n has.)

Been trying to find a proper name for it. Would that be a "stellated" dodecahedron?
 

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  • #83
DaveC426913 said:
I got it! It's a dodecahedron extended into a star.

Every vertex has five struts. Thus, if you trace the 5 of each vertex back to a face, you get one face of a dodecahedron.

(And now that I know that, I can see that it also has 12 points, which is how many faces a ddh'n has)
Yes!, it is a dodecahedron! Dave, you're awesome. :approve:

It's actually a lesser stellated dodechahedron
 
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  • #85
Here is his e-mail to me.

The icosahedron is one of the Platonic solids. It is almost identical
to
the lesser stellated dodecahedron (the figure I posted, which is NOT a
Platonic solid), because they both have the same number of vertices,
and
the same number of edges.

Basically, if you look at the icosahedron, you see a pentagon under
each of
the points. Beyond that is another pentagon in a parallel plane, then
the
last of the 12 points. If you take each edge leading from the central
point
to the second pentagon, not the first, and do that for all the points,
you
get the lesser stellated dodecahedron. Of course, once you've done
that to
all the points, each of the pentagons becomes a pentacle. The lesser
stellated dodecahedron is to the icosahedron exactly as a pentacle is
to a
pentagon.

I have other photos showing that aspect of the lesser stellated
duodecahedron much more clearly. Clarity was not the goal in this case.

Platonic solids are cool. They are very limited (there's only five),
but
they are very neat things.
 
  • #86
I was trying to figure out how to describe regular polyhedrons without getting long-winded and I've managed to find it in Wiki. It's the "vertex configuration". It is the number of polygons around each vertex and what polygon they are.

There are five known:
3.3.3 (tetrahedron)
4.4.4 (cube)
3.3.3.3 (octohedron)
5.5.5 (dodecahedron)
3.3.3.3.3 (icosahedron)
There can't be any less than 3 polygons per vertex because you get degenerate objects, eg.: 3.3 (a 2D flat triangle)
And most configurations have an upper limit or you get a tiled plane: 4.4.4.4 (4x90degrees=360 - a flat plane)

So there are very clear bounds on the regular solids. Ah what what about interpolation? Has every combination of polygons vs. sides been represented? No! There's one left.

4.4.4.4.4

It is neither degenerate nor a tiled plane. And it does form a closed shape (eventually). But it bends just one platonic solid rule: it's not convex.

Sorry, I'm hijacking this thread.
 
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  • #87
I haven't had 5 platonic relationships in my life. are you sure you added right?
 
  • #88
tribdog said:
I haven't had 5 platonic relationships in my life. are you sure you added right?
Ba DUM bum!
 
  • #89
tribdog said:
I haven't had 5 platonic relationships in my life. are you sure you added right?


Its ok, I'm sure the lurkers thought it was funny.

Are you campaigning all of a sudden for that ribbon?
 
  • #90
Aha, tribdog might be eligible if he hangs around long enough.
 
  • #91
If you're asking I'm always eligible, baby.
 

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