Sounds very interesting. Just started looking at the paper, which seems very complex to me "An alternative approach utilizes light absorption via localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) of noble metal nanoparticles (NPs)".

I came across https://www.nano-resonance.com/ which appears to be the promotional page for the technique, it has a nice diagram which appears to show how the size of the silicon nanoparticle enhances certain wavelengths of light.

Very cool how they can use an inkjet printer for their approach.

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippmann_plate for a photographic process that creates colours using diffraction patterns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DyrBDsKA5s is a fun video on lippmann plates.

I just watched that video the other day otherwise I'd have no idea what structural color is.

I always loved the holograms that were ever so popular in the 1980s. I just found some guy making lippmann plates on Etsy too:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4343596905/white-flower-lippman...

Whoa...I worked on this exact thing around 20 years ago. But in my time, we were using laser pulses to ablate noble metals. Printer would have made life so much easier.

Watched that video last night, really approachable and made me re-think everything I thought I knew about photography!

Yeah, it's very cool, I found a rather interesting document on the chemistry to create a lippmann plate 'The True Colour of Photography' by 'Hans I. Bjelkhagen, Darran P.M. Green' seems their exposure times where in the order of minutes.

That sounds really cool, how did they do the DNA testing out of interest?

We work with Dr Cameron Peace's lab at WSU. They send us test tubes, we send the tubes back with leaves in them, they run the DNA tests and compare against an apple ID database they've built. We pay ~$50 per test, which is what most of the groups budget goes towards.

https://dberard.com/home-built-stm/ shows individual atoms.

Maybe it was a Czech Mlíko pour ;) The faucets they use are pretty cool (https://www.lukrfaucets.com/en/)

I have a magneto optic sensor that can visualise the field lines of a magstripe when using a polarising microscope - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8nM4Z-hkTw

I'm going to try a VHS under it, to see what I get.

Please do share if this succeeded :)

Based on a repo I found that twiddled the memory bus, I transmitted audio from a wav file via Pulse Density Modulation - https://github.com/anfractuosity/musicplayer

If you PWM a signal, I presume you could add a filter to convert to amplitude changes?

I skimmed through a couple of youtube videos, would I be right in thinking the tracing is done always manually here.

Would be really neat if it could trace automagically too, possibly with sanded PCBs?

Wow that printer is fascinating!

Good point re. film, related to that see - https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/

Thanks! I came across http://www.pocketwatchrepair.com/how-to/jewels.php recently, hadn't realised the jewels weren't for aesthetics.