Gigapixel 3D microscope Duke University
A Blu-ray laser scanning microscope is good for hobby use, while images captured with this gigapixel 3D microscope resemble human vision by merging multiple viewpoints together. Duke University engineers basically combined 24 smartphone cameras into a single platform and stitched their images together, thus creating a single camera capable of taking gigapixel images over an area about the size of a sheet of paper.



After six-years of stitching together dozens of individual cameras with subpixel resolution simultaneously, the engineers discovered that they were able to deduce the height of objects too. The high-speed 3D gigapixel microscope consisting of 54 lenses, called a Multi Camera Array Microscope (MCAM), was tested on several insects and animals including fruit flies as well as swimming zebrafish.

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It’s like human vision. If you merge multiple viewpoints together (as your two eyes do), you see objects from different angles, which gives you height. When our colleagues studying zebrafish used it for the first time, they were blown away. It immediately revealed new behaviors involving pitch and depth that they’d never seen before,” said Roarke Horstmeyer, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University.

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