Monthly Archives: March 2014

Taking it up a notch: nail beds

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Andy Rundquist

About a month ago, I had an extraordinary experience: It was Bill Nye standing on me while I laid on a nail bed. Lots of fun, for sure, and I pointed out to the audience that it was the one … Continue reading →

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Leaving a gaping hole

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Andy Rundquist

This past week in my optics class I think I made a mistake. We were talking about how light interacts with a system with multiple parallel interfaces, and we started with analyzing a single interface that didn’t happen to be … Continue reading →

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Finding grains

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Andy Rundquist

My colleague asked me to help him out with this image: He needs to know the grain size distribution, and they’ve been having trouble automating this. He knew I’d been doing some work with Mathematica’s image analysis capabilities so he … Continue reading →

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