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Electron Microscope
490,008 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Imaging · Built from a recipe
Electron Microscope
A scanning electron microscope sweeps a fine beam of electrons across a sample in a vacuum.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap a grain or shell to zoom in, again to look closer; a third tap goes back out. Tap another to zoom on it.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 262 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 14, Imaging
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 490,008
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoom in a step on the object you tap (the third tap goes back out) | Tap | ||
| Zoom | Button | ||
| Sample | List | 3 choices | Pollen |
| Vision | List | 3 choices | Gray (realistic) |
About it
A scanning electron microscope sweeps a fine beam of electrons across a sample in a vacuum. Where the beam hits, the surface gives off low-energy electrons, and a detector counts them, point by point, into a gray picture. More escape where the beam meets the surface at a slant, so edges and spines glow, and the side facing away from the detector falls into shadow. It can show things far smaller than light can: pollen grains a few hundredths of a millimeter across, the rows of tiny pores in a diatom's glass shell, or the frozen droplets on a snowflake (snow is imaged cold, in a special stage).
The samples here are built for the splash in a microscope's grays. Tap any grain, shell, or crystal to zoom in from the whole field to it, then to its surface. Vision in the Splash tab recolors the picture: the realistic gray, a night-vision scope's green, or an infrared camera's colors (for fun: an electron microscope sees no color).
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 107,088 at Low, and up to 700,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
