Perhaps a tougher puzzle…. What is this, and how was the photo taken?

37 responses to “What’s That? (10)”

  1. Fluid dynamics study?
    Camera positioned above the water table as the liquid was concussed?

  2. hm… looks like some sort of extreme close up of a metal screen (hence the moireé effect?) It’s possible the screen has drops of water that have dispersed a bit.

    Anyhoo, that’s what I can come up with right now… 😕

  3. My idea is several micro-crystals (in a row) trapped between 2 coverslips (hence the diffraction pattern).

    The whole was photographed at 2 different time points and overlayed, no?

  4. Crop Circles, as seen by a drunken Seagull…

  5. =) very creative and interesting ideas….

    Do you see any "big picture" patterns in the image?

  6. Is it one shot or 6-7 of them combined?

  7. drops falling into H2O, reflected off the bottom surface: bathtub?

  8. Bulls Eyes all over the place!
    Or pixeled wood grain!
    PS. I like Zenera’s answer a lot. lol

  9. Damn! It IS a woman!

    But how? Did you squash her so hard agains the window pane that she exploded, and you caught that? Or did you photograph her through two layers of mesh?? I’m still completely lost.

  10. Me sir!!! Me, me… sir!!!

    Here!!! 0-)

    This is a picture of those computer screens made for finger touch. The patterns are your fingertips (in 2s) like you touched the screen playing top to bottom:

    .. (2 fingers)
    ..
    ..
    ..

    The circles (around the fingertips) are an electrical wave effect just like water waves when you drop something to it or just touch.

    Thank you, sir.

  11. Oh! Nice interpretation G. Hope you got it 😉

  12. A very erotic picture of a nude woman created by some kind of screen? Or simply a new pair of pantyhose in detail?

  13. I see a hardwood floors.

  14. So many great comments, and so creative i, V and z! Maybe I shouldn’t ever give this one up.

    FlatCoke: one image, but another one like this one is needed to get a clearer picture.

    Olegos: remember Harrison Ford, frozen, in Star Wars? 😉

    Half of The Alieness’s answer is correct, and the other half is not… She has special powers.

    Pandabear: I LIKE that one!

    Do you want to guess some more, or should I reveal which pairing of different people’s answers gives the complete solution?

  15. I want to guess some more with the rest!!! 0-)

    Now… what is wrong of my guessing? probably I am incorrect in thinking that is a "Touch" screen. Because, I am so archaic. Surely, now there are another modern devices which surface reacts that way to touch.

    Hey guys and gals, let´s guess this together. Whatcha think?

  16. The Alieness spoke: let´s guess this together.
    I agree with her, that’s what puzzles are made for!

    Steve said: …another one like this one is needed to get a clearer picture.

    Let’s say half of a stereogram; wasn’t able to see anything on it; and my eyes are aching!

    OH! and about the touch sensitive device, I was just concentrating to my pad to clear the remnant images… 🙂

  17. WTF is a sterogram!?!

    Glad we have you on the guessing Team, OldC!

    So you say that also another devices (pad) produces that same (waves) effect as well…

    KUL! 0-P

    Let´s see what MrPuzzle have to say to this.

  18. OldC suggested (see link) one way of putting 2 images together to make a stereogramWith this idea I tried this.

    I just used the original image and match it like Lego. 4 images used. Now, what does this mean???… dunno, isn´t it a nice pattern? 0-)

  19. PepsiVieux: very clever. No wonder your eyes are aching. You are only human. Imagine you were an alien, or a bat.

    This can be misleading.

    Sometimes the gestalt is also relevant. Pandarine and Olegos may look wacked, but they are on to something too….

  20. Naaaaaa… don´t tell me this is a touch-made drawing of this guy

  21. funny….. But no touching!

    How does a bat ‘see"?

  22. With an Ecosonda! High frecuency emitions. Wait… let me see.. is "echolocation" in english.

    So…

    what?

  23. Hi guys! just got home. Dosen’t a bat "listen" or feel it’s way around? Do they actually "see"?

    I want in on the fun! But I’m so lost… Lemme make some sense of all this and I’ll contribute somn. 😀

  24. Echolocation it is G. iv0, I am as lost as you think you are! Can’t show you the path.

    Now, bats aren’t the only one to use this system, daulphins "clic" also.
    I would like to "focus" to that second image but all I get for the moment is the image of someone swimming on the surface of a water plan, image from a daulphin’s point of view
    I have to work on that, coming back with an image 😉

  25. Bats have to "think different" (Apple Grammar)

    If we had their sensory input, we probably couldn’t reconstruct the image.

    It might help to think about how we listen to the aliens….

  26. My last delirium:

    Laser shots on a "laser-shot-sensitive" surface!

    Now this colorful alieness gotta leave you for the next hours… Shall God help you, dear pple.

    :——-/

  27. The husband just walked by and said it looked like an interference pattern produced by multiple wave sources.

  28. The way a bat "see" a person (let’s make it a lady), frighten by it, hiding her face with her hands.
    A sonar view, gas pressure waves.

    Very Halloween!

    I assumed that the person is standing and that this is a face view.

    The second image could be used to form a volume, rather then a flat image. By interferometry.
    (now that I have the last hint I wonder if I could calculate the volume with the second image)

  29. Bingo! Go teamwork…. and spousework! And Inspecteur Cola has become batman in the process. His reconstruction is a wonderful likeness…

    Alieness was correct early on that it is an electrical wave effect, (but then she got confused by the need to touch =).

    This is one input channel to a holographic 3D body scanner operating in the millimeter-wave frequency domain (10s of GHz).

    Olegos was the first to “see” a nude body in the image (but then he collapsed into confusion).

    Vanita’s husband is also correct. There is a linear array of wave sources that scans downward from head to toe.

    Imagine a huge, 7 foot tall flatbed scanner, but instead of light, it has an array of ultrawideband transmitters and two detectors (like two bat ears) to pick up the reflections and scatter off the water in skin. From two source images, like the one here, the computer can reconstruct a holographic 3D image of my body.

    Yes, that’s me standing up, with my back to the scanner. Everyone was hoping for a lady, but alas…

    At these frequencies, it sees right through clothes, and hair… and walls for that matter… it was developed up at the PNNL gov’t labs. So it can be used as a safe alternative to X-ray scanners at airports to spot guns, knives, etc. even if they are plastic or ceramic.

    I’m glad that Pandarine saw an erotic nude woman in the photo. Since it’s a picture of my back, I take it as a subliminal compliment of my gigahertz aura. Vanita and Zenera also saw this multipoint scatter pattern.

    I’ll post the upper half of the reconstructed image, derived from two “drunken crop circles.” =)

  30. I’ll post the upper half of the reconstructed image…

    "upper half" ;-}
    :

  31. Hey Steve, that was brilliant, thanks!

    On the matter of seeing a woman in you: I am sure my third eye perceived vibrations from your past reincarnation. I read somewhere that’s a side effect of this scanner!

  32. Oh my Godness!

    Some thoughts:

    1) I NEED TOUCH, definitely… 0-(

    2) so YOU were the Michelin guy I saw before, then!

    3) Great Teamwork. L´inspecteur a être superb!

    5) Olegos and Padarine just seen correctly. In fact, the scanner was made by some drooling guys who wanted to see naked women everywhere… that´s why all that passes through it resembles a female figure.

    4) I am lucky. (…seen the full scan somewhere else)

    Hehe

    Congrats to all. 0-)

  33. I feel I was miles away!
    Started to work on that "back view" at the right part of my proposal, but didn’t had time to work on it. (that’s why the dummy is in front of the "image wall".
    Suspected ultrasounds rather then microwaves, probably because I worked with for medical imagery; thus I was unable to see the holographic issue, thinking about a stereogrammometric approach

  34. That proves you are a GREAT inspector! The most wonderful inspectors of all times resolved their cases without noticing it!

    …Inspecteur Clousseau, Agent 86 Maxwell Smart, Inspector Gadget, Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown (this was more aware, tho), Mr. Hercule Poirot… et voilá: Le grand moisseur Oldcolá.

    Let me give you in the name of Mr Puzzle and the Guessing Team this present. Thank you.

    an inspector calls…

  35. Well … do you have PROOF you are *not* a woman???
    :p

    GREAT puzzle, I love it!

    Oh, and on second thought: I don’t want to see the proof! LOL

  36. Really awesome!! That must be really incredible to experiment with!!

    Thank you for adding your photo to our "filters/effects" theme thread in The World Through My Eyes

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