This was posted last month <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25414579" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25414579</a>
They must be kidding us...Alexey did it years ago<p><a href="https://alexey-kljatov.pixels.com/" rel="nofollow">https://alexey-kljatov.pixels.com/</a>
Using focus stacking and strobes to take high-res photos of snowflakes is nothing new. Here's a YouTube video of how to do it yourself: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKA8Boa9hBA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKA8Boa9hBA</a><p>Gallery of incredible snowflake photos by the same guy <a href="https://skycrystals.ca/snowflake-gallery/" rel="nofollow">https://skycrystals.ca/snowflake-gallery/</a> (adblock stops the gallery from working for some reason)<p>Myhrvold is just really good at PR.
My favorite line of the article:<p>> Every single part of his Frankenstein-esque device, which stands at about five feet in height off the ground when placed on a table, was built using materials that are less likely to cause melting or sublimation of the subject matter.<p>I'm seven and a half feet tall when I stand on a chair.
This truly isn't new; I've seen coffee table books from the 80s that used similar techniques for the photographs. This is a strangely credulous article.
If you're not familiar with him, Nathan Myhrvold is the (in)famous patent troll behind Intellectual Ventures:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures</a>