[meteorite-list] Animated videos of various chondrule types

[Gary Fujihara]

Aloha Mendy,

Thanks for sharing your and Tomek's work to capture mineral extinction through various angles of meteorite thin sections when viewed in cross polarized light. 

The link you sent was corrupt for me, so I created this smaller redirect link: http://tinyurl.com/cqljrzm

gary

On Aug 6, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Mendy Ouzillou <ouzillou at yahoo.com> wrote:

> These videos were created in collaboration with Tomasz Jacubowski.  
> 
> Inspired by an animated GIF of a chondrule he had posted, I approached him
> with the idea of creating videos of the various chondrule types and their
> appearance as a polarizing filter is rotated every 10 degrees from 0 to 360
> degrees. By animating this process, viewers may now understand how polarized
> light changes the chondrule's visual characteristics and brings out its
> structural details. The results are beautiful and I hope to add more of
> these videos over time.  I will be adding detailed descriptions over the
> next couple of weeks but I wanted to share these with the community now as
> they are so cool.
> http://www.meteoritesusa.com/meteorite-education-definition-identification-t
> ype/chondrules-definition-identification-types/
> Regards,
> 
> Mendy
> 
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Gary Fujihara
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