Day 1
Prolonged exposure of light received by the camera sensor through prolonged shutter speed results in the waves blending and merging into each other, forming dreamy and silk-like waves. The water appears to be very blue. But why so? How can i apply this technique of colour manipulation & light play to further improve humanity?
Day 2
Shown is a species of plant that is foreign to Taiwan. However, it is not invasive and is in fact beneficial to the butterflies. This plant, despite being alien to Taiwan, still benefited the ecosystem and environment without any observable disadvantages. This leads to wonder how if properly researched, we could artificially introduce foreign species of plants to different parts of the Earth in order to solve or mitigate the ecological issues faced in those parts.
Day 3
The centrifuge is a very common but useful machine used to separate matter of varying densities. It is also used in hospitals everywhere to aid in blood tests and to separate the layers in blood in order to diagnose illnesses, cancer and irregularities. In this case, the centrifuge was used to separate the mixture between densities to obtain the coral tissue from the seawater. This leads me to wonder how spinning the samples at a very high rate and speed results in effective separation of matter with varying densities. How does the centrifugal force act on the sample? What is the difference between centrifugal force and centripetal force?
Day 4
This picture shows me holding a sea cucumber . When the lecturer picked the sea cucumber up, the sea cucumber started to discharge its guts as it is its self defence mechanism. This is because the sea cucumber was under a lot of stress when picked up. The guts that were expelled were sticky, clingy and very hard to get off as it would keep getting stuck on either hands. It even felt like barbs hooking onto my skin. This allows the guts to be effective in fending off predators and threats. This can be applied in material sciences. Biomimicry.
Day 5
I was very confused as to why white objects glowed purple-blue under black (UV) light and certain colours glowed extremely bright, for example, the orange on my shoes. I was also confused as to why Yadira’s white hoodie did not glow purple-blue whereas mine, pictured, was glowing very bright purple. I searched it up and found out that a phosphor is any substance that absorbs energy and re-emits it as visible light. Under a black light, phosphors convert the UV radiation they receive into visible light.
Teeth and fingernails contain phosphors naturally, and many laundry detergents contain phosphor-based optical brighteners designed to give your white clothes that ‘whiter than white’ effect.
Day 6
This is a picture of a shark model created using real shark skin. The professor asked us not to touch the model. He then explained that it used to feel like real shark skin but because people touched it too much the skin has denatured and does not feel like real shark skin texture anymore. This leads me wonder how the skin is preserved and how we can preserve it such that the texture remains intact after contact.
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