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Holographic camera image

By Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center 2011 (approx.)
Image from a special camera shows the radiating patterns that can occur around particles in the water.
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Raw image (left) from holographic camera, showing diffraction patterns that look like ripples around particles in field of view. Preliminary processing of this image (right) reveals both straight and spring-shaped diatom chains, foraminifers, barnacles (growing on the lenses), and sediment particles. The spring-shaped diatom chains might be Chaetoceros sp.

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