Heard this on the radio today and figured it was something for the 'dopers:
Can anyone here identify this image?.
I don’t think there is any photoshop messing about going on here, but the image may need ot be rotated to be seen for what it is.
A moth or butterfly wing?
Looks like a CT or MRI scan of some part of brain to me…
Barry
It looks kind of artificial to me…
Looks like a mammogram or some image of a breast to me.
Snake head?
xray of an oyster w/ pearl
Here is a contrast-enhanced version.
MRI of a penis (in cross-section … those cavities could be urethra / corpus cavernosa, etc.)? This is a radio show, right? Would bathroom humor be par for the course?
Else, maybe a microscopic view of a neuron? That central spot really reminds me of the nucleus of a neuron for some reason, and there’s some dendrite-y stuff going on there.
If you rotate it so the flat side is down, it looks like that invisible monster in the Johnny Quest episode where they were in the jungle and the monster ate light and they caught it by flinging water balloons filled with paint at it.
Well, you asked…
Right-on, Ethilrist. Didn’t that thing remind you of the Monster from the Id from Forbidden Planet?
My WAG is that it’s an embryo…
I think Philster has it, those two long diagonal structures on the left could be the adductor muscles that open and close the shell.
Possibly a image of a jaw. The two long diagonal structures on the left could be muscles/glands connceting to the tongue. The person also seems to be sucking on a piece of candy though.
I don’t think so. Soft muscle tissue presenting about the same density as a pearl?
What kind of x-ray shows that sort of shading depth? And lines with clearly defined edges?
I believe its the front lobe of a small heath buttefly’s wing (Coenonympha pamphilus)> http://butterflywebsite.com/images/buttrfly/Maier/France/pamp.jpg >but I’m going to keep looking.
Some kind of embryo.
A moth/butterfly wing in the as seen in the UV spectrum.
It’s an MRI of a human shoulder. The circular thing is the humerus. The clavicle and the scapula are seen at left, angled toward the humerus. That’s my guess.
Perhaps not x-ray, but another imaging technology like ultrasound, MRI or CAT-scan. Zoom in on the “pearl”; even at low resolution, you can see a concentric pattern, as would be formed by the layers of nacre in a pearl.