# Microscopy Experiment

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/microscopy-experiment/272813>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [October 8, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/microscopy-experiment/272813 "2008-10-08T17:31:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chimay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Chimay](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Chimay)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/microscopy-experiment/272813/1 "2008-10-08T17:31:16Z")

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I’ve been working on this Microscopy experiment… it uses BitmapData, copyPixels and draw…

// (give it a second to get going)  
[http://www.shapevent.com/sketchbook/things/cells.html](http://www.shapevent.com/sketchbook/things/cells.html)

this uses a realtime emboss technique that is much faster than a convolution filter… you can find a description and some code about it here:  
[http://shapevent.com/sketchbook/2008/09/29/microscopy-sketch-emboss/](http://shapevent.com/sketchbook/2008/09/29/microscopy-sketch-emboss/)

Haven’t had a chance to use this commercially, but I almost used it for an etch-a-sketch-esqu app.