The surface of this JOOLA Perseus MOD TA-15 pickleball paddle is intended to add friction or “grip” to the ball: If we zoom in on a subregion, we can see the details of the “peaky” texture: This texture looks very much like this woven rain jacket fabric that’s also in our Surface Library. In fact, … Read more
This 50X optical profiler image of coated business card stock shows the individual coated paper fibers. Measured via: Sensofar S neox 090 3D optical profiler, 50X Direct Interferometry lens Data source: Adam M. Platteis and Sensofar
This dataset shows the bottom surface of an FDM 3D printed part. The surface was formed against a “textured” build plate. The stitched dataset consists of 5×5 individual measurements. Measured via: Zygo NexView NX2, 5.5X objective, 0.5X zoom, CSI mode Data source: Brian Renegar – Surface and Interface Metrology Group – NIST
This dataset includes a wear region on a planar surface. The Wear Analysis tool in OmniSurf3D lets you precisely define the wear region and reference geometry to calculate wear depth and wear volume. In this video we use the Wear Analysis tool to calculate the depth and volume of the wear scan in this dataset. … Read more
This dataset includes a wear region on a spherical surface. Typically it would be challenging to measure the depth of this wear scar, because it blends into the overall curvature of the sphere. But the Wear Analysis tool in OmniSurf3D lets you precisely define reference and wear regions, to calculate key parameters such as wear … Read more
A lot of engineering goes into a soda can. This dataset shows the ridges in the can lid that let you open it with one finger—but that keep the can from bursting before it gets to you! We put a can under an Alicona optical 3D measurement system to have a look. The data shown … Read more