Enzymind Labs

This website is sort of interesting. I've been thinking about doing moire shadow contour imaging on various subjects (ideally consenting females) and wound up at that site looking for ronchi filters for projecting line gratings. Their price is between $500 and $ks, each. ouch I think I'll try this instead. I really like the idea of structured illumination and how to use it for extracting/representing things in interesting ways. Kinda like a poor (lazy) mans holography.

I met this guy when I was at ucsf and had asked him to explain structured illumination to me -honestly his implementations are not entirely intuitive, but fascinating

Also added 'seeds ' section to overview of projects at enzymind in the misc folder. I've got a lot of micro half-assed project ideas and I wanted a place where I could plant the seeds and see if by coming back to them from time to time and I can make them grow.

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Found another nice book. 'Fundamentals of optical waveguides' Okamoto ta1800.037 2006. I have always been fascinated by wavelength division optical multiplexing for data transmission and also the idea of optical computers. So I don't really know a lot about this but it just kind of struck me as being an interesting way of precisely generating some very complex patterns that have information content embedded. Fractal too :).

Here's a pic from the book that caught my eye: MMI (multi mode interference) waveguides: .

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