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CRYSTAL GALLERY
Pretty Firewater
Retardation colors are a sort of diffraction phenomenon
that occurs with anisotropic substances observed with polarized light and polarizing filters.
Two kinds of crystals are seen here against an aqua background. Different
diffraction shifts produce different backgrounds and alterations of the rainbow
colors shown by the crystals. A specific shift can be introduced with a
specially designed transparent retardation "plate". Some retardation colors are
not "spectral" because the birefringence change with wavelength goes through a
minimum or a maximum in the visible wavelength range, it may even change sign.
That is, the refractive indices' change with wavelength may even cross one
another.
God made living things so that their activities would
dynamically
"crystallize" and their evolutionary survival would be enhanced. He puts us
under His microscope and shines the light of His grace upon us. Spirit loves our
multihued display as the retardation plate of His Mercy shifts away blame and
shows us His forgiveness by means of His Love. Son creates our crystals as
Father guides us toward best conditions that can render us as most Responsible for our
own healthy crystalline and more orderly state. God steers us toward perfection,
toward a balance of minimal dynamic entropy. We are a self organizing
dissipative system acting according to the most subtle rules that we cannot
fully comprehend with our feeble languages and machines.
Porcupine - Squirrel - Porcupine
How many colors are needed to fill in these crystalline Balkan countries hardened from the melt between a glass slide and thin cover slip? Contrasting colors do not have to be part of the usual spectrum produced by a prism from white light. These individual crystals have intrinsic color that is augmented by the retardation colors visible under polarized light with crossed polars. With leaves of green on black velvet, purple fruit is highlighted with a pattern of rectangular masks that arose naturally from the composition process. A rainbow blast rips through multicolored bricks as the world explodes. Alladin's enchanted carpet was patterned so exquisitely that it could not be copied. A little furry lumpen between two great quivering masses of sharpest quills. I think that these crystals growing from the melt are called spherulites, but I wonder why.
How many colors are needed to fill in these crystalline Balkan countries hardened from the melt between a glass slide and thin cover slip?
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Icy Frost Backlit Upon Glass
On My Window
On a Day So Cold
That the Sun Almost Froze
Strawberry KAAAPOWW!
Crystals of a Platinum Antineoplastic Complex
Under Polarized Light With Crossed Polarizers and a
Red 1 Plate
Inserted Below the Preparation.
Impossibly Pretty Crystals
They are impossible to grow this way because the
spherulitic fan shaped structures were grown from the melt, so it is a "fusion"
prep and the little oblongs were grown separately by evaporation from solution.
Now, this is a sort of digital double exposure which I call a synthetic aperture
or
composite image.
Sucrose Crystals
at 40 x Under Polarized Light
With Crossed Polarizers
There is a whole different universe under the microscope!
The beauty and majesty, the sublime glory of God
hits the eye like a lightning flash!
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