Flowers? Banal. Boring. Do hotdog!
the unseen worlds
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Lembot_0004@discuss.online 1 month ago
GargleBlaster@feddit.org 1 month ago
Hotdog? Banal. Boring. Do a kickflip
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Top left thing: “I bring you love!”
Lenny: “It’s bringing love! Break its legs!”
woodenghost@hexbear.net 1 month 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 1 month ago
Was wondering why this sounded familiar, saw the article was from 7 years ago (2018) and now I understand, lol.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 month ago
What if the subjectisn’t a flower? Skin cancer?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month ago
Depends on the wavelength. Could be skin cancer, vitamin D, nothing, or your manicure is done
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I need to get a UV filter for my camera…
lemmur@szmer.info 1 month 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 5 weeks ago
I got a full spectrum converted nex6 in April so I’ve been looking around at filters
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Is this also how some animals see them?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Image
I saved this image for a Caption this.
Matty_r@programming.dev 1 month ago
“Bird Vision activate!”
Walks straight into glass door
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s great! Any guesses what the bottom bars are about on either side of the ‘heart thing’?
StellarExtract@lemmy.zip 1 month 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.