Gigapan Ants

October 21, 2009 by myrmecos

Click to Gigapan this Linepithema ant head

Gigapan is a technology that stitches together hundreds of individual images to form a massive single image. It’s hard to appreciate its power from just the small SEM image shown above, but if you click on the photo you’ll be able to zoom to a marvelous level of detail.

More clickable gigapan ants below the fold.

Posted in Ants, Science | Tagged Ants, myrmecology, scientific imaging, SEM | 2 Comments

2 Responses

on October 21, 2009 at 4:36 pm Wilma Lingle

Very cool! They don’t devote much real estate to vision, do they.
- on October 21, 2009 at 4:54 pm myrmecos
  
  Yeah, most ants don’t. As a spectacular exception, check out Gigantiops destructor.