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Everything about Magnification
Process of enlarging the apparent size of something
Magnification is the process of enlarging the apparent size, not physical size, of something. This enlargement is quantified by a size ratio called optical magnification or magnification ratio. When this ratio is less than one, it refers to a reduction in size, sometimes called de-magnification. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MagnificationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Bioaccumulation and trophic magnification of emerging and legacy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a St. Lawrence River food webInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: You Can With Beakman & JaxThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Eulerian video magnification for revealing subtle changes in the worldCited 1,244 times
- Go sideways: EyepieceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Optical telescopeA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
Noun The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer.
Noun Amplification.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Eulerian video magnification for revealing subtle changes in the world
Estimation of high-order aberrations and anisotropic magnification from cryo-EM data sets in RELION -3.1
Stereo magnification
Uniformity of monkey striate cortex: A parallel relationship between field size, scatter, and magnification factor
Curve evolution implementation of the Mumford-Shah functional for image segmentation, denoising, interpolation, and magnification
An estimation and application of the human cortical magnification factor
Perfluoroalkyl Contaminants in an Arctic Marine Food Web: Trophic Magnification and Wildlife Exposure
Modal identification of simple structures with high-speed video using motion magnification
🆕 Influential since 2022
Bioaccumulation and trophic magnification of emerging and legacy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a St. Lawrence River food web
An Activatable Near‐Infrared Afterglow Theranostic Prodrug with Self‐Sustainable Magnification Effect of Immunogenic Cell Death
Frequency-dependency/independency analysis of damping magnification effect provided by tuned inerter absorber and negative stiffness amplifying damper considering soil-structure interaction
Cable vibration measurement based on broad-band phase-based motion magnification and line tracking algorithm
Motion magnification for video-based vibration measurement of civil structures: A review
📚 Books worth reading
You Can With Beakman & JaxJok Church · 1994
Beakman & Jax's Microscope BookJok Church · 1995
The Best of You Can With Beakman and JaxJok Church · 1997
You Can With BeakmanJok Church · 1992- 📕Numerical aperture limits on efficient ball lens coupling of laser diodes to single-mode fibers with defocus to balance spherical aberrationR. Gale Wilson · 1994
You Can With Beakman & JaxJok Church · 1995
Magnification radiographyTakahashi, Shinji · 1975
Cerebral magnification angiographyS. Wende · 1974
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🔗 Related topics
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- Objective (optics) In optical engineering, an objective is an optical element that gathers light from an object being observed and focuses the light rays from it to produce…
- Lens A lens is a transmissive optical device that focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction. A simple lens consists of a single piece of transparent…
- Magnifying glass A magnifying glass is a convex lens—usually mounted in a frame with a handle—that is used to produce a magnified image of an object. A magnifying glass…
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- Long-focus lens In photography, a long-focus lens is a camera lens which has a focal length that is longer than the diagonal measure of the film or sensor that receives…
- Barlow lens The Barlow lens, named after the English physicist and mathematician Peter Barlow (1776–1862), is an optical tube with diverging lens elements that, used…