Another Myxomycete in Fructification Phase
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Another Myxomycete in Fructification Phase
20mm Canon Macro lens at f/5.6, with 30mm tube.
Horizontal F.O.V. 4.0 mm
Image stack, 78 images at .001 inch increments
Diffused fiber optic illumination
Canon 10D
Combine ZM and Photoshop processing.
I may have posted an image of a similar subject last year at this time and found it too difficult to identify. It is a small sample of a wide area of white slime say 6 by 12 inches on a log. I made various stacks to eliminate a small section of stacking mush but failed. The image in general is a good representation of the subject despite its various formations at this phase. A very delicate structure indeed.
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When I got CZP initially I tried running the macro called just Pyramid stack. However according to Rik this is a modified version of the old stacking algorithm, to see the proper Tufuse style pyramid in action you need to use the max-contrast pyramid macro. This produces very similar output to Tufuse...
I haven't really done any timing tests between the different algorithms so cannot comment on that - definitely the max contrast method should produce less mush though, it's worth a shot! (Can you just leave the stack running on the machine when you go to bed? That's what I used to do until recently when I got a fast machine!)
I haven't really done any timing tests between the different algorithms so cannot comment on that - definitely the max contrast method should produce less mush though, it's worth a shot! (Can you just leave the stack running on the machine when you go to bed? That's what I used to do until recently when I got a fast machine!)
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