Flowers? Banal. Boring. Do hotdog!
the unseen worlds
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Lembot_0004@discuss.online 2 months ago
GargleBlaster@feddit.org 2 months ago
Hotdog? Banal. Boring. Do a kickflip
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Top left thing: “I bring you love!”
Lenny: “It’s bringing love! Break its legs!”
woodenghost@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Ultraviolet induced visible fluorescence photography
Sounds complicated, but it’s just shining UV light on an object in a dark room and taking a normal photo with long exposure. If you want to be pure about only picturing visible light, you might need a UV filter, since many cameras can already see a bit of UV despite inbuilt filters.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Was wondering why this sounded familiar, saw the article was from 7 years ago (2018) and now I understand, lol.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 2 months ago
What if the subjectisn’t a flower? Skin cancer?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s just a normal “black light” like at a dance party, or mini golf course, or like the little flashlights they use to check money and ID cards.
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Depends on the wavelength. Could be skin cancer, vitamin D, nothing, or your manicure is done
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I need to get a UV filter for my camera…
lemmur@szmer.info 2 months ago
You don’t need a filter. You need a source of UV light. Plants shine in visible spectrum after being treated with UV. It doesn’t last long tho.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I got a full spectrum converted nex6 in April so I’ve been looking around at filters
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t the sun a source of UV light?
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I need to get UV cone surgery for my eyes. I want to be able to see these colors naturally, not have them fluoresce into a spectrum of colors I already can see.
lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
That is just remarkable. Augmented glasses that can process this spectrum IRL when? So cool the things just beneath it all
juliebean@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
just get yourself a UV flashlight, or bring some flowers to your nearest laser tag arena. this is just how stuff looks under blacklight sometimes (which isn’t to say it isn’t cool, just that you don’t need fancy tech to see it),
Chivera@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is this also how some animals see them?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Image
I saved this image for a Caption this.
Matty_r@programming.dev 2 months ago
“Bird Vision activate!”
Walks straight into glass door
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s great! Any guesses what the bottom bars are about on either side of the ‘heart thing’?
StellarExtract@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Technically no, this photographer is putting flowers under a blacklight and photographing them, resulting in a picture of basically what a human would see IRL in that scenario (aside from things like contrast/exposure variances, etc). It’s not really the same as what UV sensing animals would see. These photos are of regions of the flower converting UV light into human-visible visible light (via fluorescence, same thing as a blacklight poster). UV sensing animals are seeing actual ultraviolet being reflected by the flower as well as visible light, so it’s not the same thing.