Monday, August 2, 2010

Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) in 3D and butterfly vs human vision

My Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) started to blossom, so here a few shots (crosseyed viewing)

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3D Human Vision Image:

 

3D Butterfly Vision Image:


not much of an UV pattern to see though....

Well, I couldn't believe it, so I tested several possibilities and using some nearly monochromatic UV LED light, a UV pattern gets visible. The multspectral filtering BV overlaying three channels simply cannot make it visible (yet...). This is though the Baader U-filter + UV Rodagon 105mm.



Here now a comparison UV LED versus filtered Xenon flash both using Baader U filter (black and white images for better comparison).

UV LED : 


Xenon flash:


the monochromatic UV LED light reveals even more details of that UV pattern!


Stay tuned, more will follow on that fascinating subject...

More info on this very interesting field may be found on my site http://www.pbase.com/kds315/uv_photos