Caplio R2
ƒ/5.9
5.6 mm
1/270
100
Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
21 responses to “What’s That? (55)”
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I suppose this will meet your Macro Set, and seems quite related with "dirty windows"…
Is it some kind of nano-assembled and then scratched film?
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On second thought, I think Old Cola is onto something… it was taken within four minutes of that other photo.
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Pour moi le photo est… the side (or hood) of a blue van with some drawing painted on it (like a landscape) and the light is reflection of the sun on it.
Primitive guessing, a na-not one.
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If it had not been that the two photos were taken within minutes of each other, I would have guessed that it was a model rocket body showing signs of stress to the paint on the side after launching.
I still think it is crystalline structures we’re looking at, maybe not an LCD but some sort of crystalline structure.
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It seems the pieces at the front right side, covering like a glass surface, are positioned almost 90 degrees regarding to the layers that are visible in most of the photo.
Reminds me of the aquarium walls in my office during summer, when I have no time to clear them from algae and it starts blooming in the sun 🙂
Another take would be an explosion, unless the direction of the 2 surfaces was not so organised.
Snow or ice does not form like that, it is much more similar to paint or some wafer surface.
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So many good guesses and energetic banter. Where to begin?
Alieness: primitive is good, but don’t be a fossil. You are correct that the sun is reflected (you got the "bright" clue… =)
Rocketeer: crystalline structures is correct.
JK from Estonia: yes, there is a glass covering.
P.S. Don’t read too much into the relative time stamp of various photos. I learned to be careful about that in prior puzzles. =)
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BINGO LAMO !!!!! Right out of the chute, with his first puzzle guess! Go Canada. (I went back and added bold to the embedded clues… =)
This is a back-contact silicon solar cell from Advent Solar, with technology originally developed at Sandia National Laboratories.
Unlike conventional cells with contacts on the front that inefficiently block sunlight, this “Emitter Wrap-Through” design uses many tiny laser-drilled holes to connect to the back surface where the electric contacts carry the current away.
Because the wires are on the backside, the solar cell looks like a uniform sheet of frozen blue marble. I was trying to capture the beauty of it in the sunlight. It looked like sunrise on the Alps to me…
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Aha! So it looked like a landscape with a sun over it!
ha! I kneeeeeeeeeew! Or we see in the same distortive way…
KUDDOS Lamo! You won the right to release yerslef from the straightjacket. Any helpers?
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From a materials perspective – someone messed up the czochralski terribly. ( matsci humor what can I say, being canadian ? )
So polyxtalline is the next big thing? oops … something about (im)mobility…
Show me the way to the (?front) emitters !
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After some research into what I believe may be some great stock picks, I stumbled upon CMGI (NASDAQ), who like other investment/venture capatslists, have dumped tons of money into Advent Solar, a New Mexico based company that will hopefully provide solar energy at a less expensive price than other companies to consumers. While conducting my research I learned about "emitter wrap-around solar modules," and I believe this is a picture of one of them, rather than just a simple solar cell. Let’s hope I am right. The big question is "where should we put our money?"
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Textures only~Competition #50 (Please post by July 8, 5am EST), and we’d love to have this added to the group!
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