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Surface Profile Quiz

Mystery object

The picture on the left is an image of an everyday object taken with the Zygo NewView 6000. Can you guess what it is?

It's quite a hard image to guess, and you might have to ring a friend for some help.


Here are some more detailed images, showing the surface features and surface roughness of this object. The image on the left shows a peak to valley of 1.079um and a surface roughness average (Ra) of 89.102nm along a cross section, whilst the image on the right is a 3D model of the surface at a higher magnification of the image above.

Mystery object

OK. Time to put you out of your misery; it is a surface profile of a diamond in a diamond ring. You can see the edges of the facets in the first image, and scratches on the very flat surface in the second.

Mystery object

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