Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/3D rendering of leaf CT scan

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Original – 3D rendering of leaf CT scan with resolution of about 40 µm/voxel at full size of 1,440 x 810 pixels

Reason: Helpful illustration of the concept of voxels and also a good 3D image in the article leaf.
Articles in which this image appears: Voxel, Leaf
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Others
Creator: Commons user:SecretDisc

Support as nominator --Pine^✉ 22:08, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose kind of a cool demonstration of the technology but doesn't really do anything special to demonstrate a leaf that a regular picture or video of a real leaf wouldn't while losing the quality of a real leaf. Cat-five t c ---- 16:48, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: This barely illustrates the concepts of a voxel at all, and a micro-CT rendering of a leaf showing its internal structure would have much more EV. I've added it to X-ray microtomography, where it should be more illustrative. I'm also wondering what the colours represent. --Paul_012 (talk) 03:20, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- I suspect the colours are false colours, which is pretty standard - something meant primarily to distinguish features from each other, in this case, veins from leaf tissue. Admittedly, I'm more familiar with this sort of false colours from electron microscopy, where "colour" lacks meaning anyway (very small objects, smaller than the wavelength of optical light, are too small to have individual colour, but it's often beneficial to use false colour to help distinguish parts more clearly visible in 3D than 2D, and I'm fairly sure shadows are generated onto the 2D image created from the 3D information as well.) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 05:35, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:08, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]