Can You Guess What These Are?

[xSilverPhinx]

That's tough...is it some sort of fungus? What's that green background?

[Tank]

That's tough...is it some sort of fungus? What's that green background?

It is a combination of living and inanimate matter. Don't be fooled by the false colours.

[xSilverPhinx]

I'll add this one as well.

Some sort of plant scales or outer protective cells?

[xSilverPhinx]

That's tough...is it some sort of fungus? What's that green background?

It is a combination of living and inanimate matter. Don't be fooled by the false colours.

I'm stumped ??? Is it anything close to fungal?

[Tank]

I'll add this one as well.

Some sort of plant scales or outer protective cells?

They are somewhat protective but mostly decorative to a human point of view.

[Tank]

That's tough...is it some sort of fungus? What's that green background?

It is a combination of living and inanimate matter. Don't be fooled by the false colours.

I'm stumped ??? Is it anything close to fungal?

It is a particular type of animal cell and this is the first time it did this.

[Asmodean]

1: brain cells on a microcontroller of some kind..?

2: Flower leaves..?

[Tank]

1: brain cells on a microcontroller of some kind..?

2: Flower leaves..?

1) Yes

2) No, they are animal in origin, not vegetable

[Asmodean]

Insect wing scales of some kind..? A moth?

[The Magic Pudding]

Woot!!!!

Now my turn, just the one

You've sneezed on your SD card haven't you?

[Cecilie]

It's a strawberry! And those are the tiny seeds on the outside!

Aww, I knew that one.

[Tank]

Insect wing scales of some kind..? A moth?

A butterfly.

But the really interesting thing is if you look at the scales you will see they have different textures. Some have very obvious grooves some are much smoother. I believe I read somewhere that the scales produce colour by diffraction and the grooves 'set' the colour the scale shows. So the scales have no coloured dye in them at all. They work like oil on water creating a rainbow by diffracting the light. So the electron microscope image shows their true colour; which is none at all!

[xSilverPhinx]

1: brain cells on a microcontroller of some kind..?

Derp...now it looks so obvious...

But the really interesting thing is if you look at the scales you will see they have different textures. Some have very obvious grooves some are much smoother. I believe I read somewhere that the scales produce colour by diffraction and the grooves 'set' the colour the scale shows. So the scales have no coloured dye in them at all. They work like oil on water creating a rainbow by diffracting the light. So the electron microscope image shows their true colour; which is none at all!

That's so cool. I read somewhere that somewhere in Japan they were able to reproduce that effect in a car's paint, so whenever it moved it changed colour depending on a person position relative to it. 

[xSilverPhinx]

[fester30]

A Play-Doh monster!