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This is a thin section of dunite, a rock made up almost entirely of the mineral olivine, as seen in cross-polarized light through a Leica Z6 APO Macroscope. There is a band of black mineral grains to the left of center of the image that is a cumulate layer of the mineral chromite - in the magma chamber from which these minerals crystallized that band of chromite would have originally settled out in a horizontal layer. The width of the entire field of view visible here is just under 2 cm.
Unlike most of my GigaPans I didn't have help from the robot on this one. The thin section was moved by hand and the images were shot one by one. In fact, the stitch took far less time than the capture. Nonetheless it was well worth the effort - and the kind of task that is ideally suited to undergraduate/graduate students! :-) |
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Taken on the south side of McNair Hall from Jamail Plaza where we see Saskia holding back the bear market and Cristina catching a ride on the bull market.
My Goal for this panorama was to have it as a continuation of the Faces I panorama: (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15137) and we see two Rice people, Saskia and Cristina, in this panorama. Each of the two Faces panoramas contain four snapshots identifying faces on either side of the entry way. This view in Google Earth is worth an effort :) An earlier GigaPan from this exact location is available here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?auth=45d74723c42a181ec9ba03576d65a0af |
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My Goal for this panorama was to have it as a continuation of the Faces I panorama and we have Cristina, a business grad student, who took a few moments between classes to be in this panorama.
However, after Cristina left, Saskia showed up and I took the same collection of Saskia as I had Cristina and for the final version, I took half of Saskia and combined it with half of this GigaPan with the result being: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15381 |