Marble and Mosaic

The Marble-Hand Illusion

Our body is made of flesh and bones. We know it, and in our daily lives all the senses constantly provide converging information about this simple, factual truth. But is this always the case? Here we report a surprising bodily illusion demonstrating that humans rapidly update their assumptions about the material qualities of their body, based on their recent multisensory perceptual experience. ...

Study of resistance to cucumber mosaic virus watermelon mosaic virus and zucchini yellow mosaic virus in melon cultivars

Industrial Inspection of Marble Tiles

The main scope was the development of support code for a marble tile inspection machine. Marble tiles running on a conveyor belt are captured with a linear CCD camera, and the images are being used for geometrically inspection within 300 msec, which is the available time until the tile reaches the selection mechanism right after the inspection chamber. Supporting algorithm should be fully funct...

Liquid Marble as Micro - Bioreactor

Liquid marbles can be used as micro-bioreactors, thanks to their unique properties. On the one hand, the highly porous, non-adhesive, and hydrophobic shell of liquid marbles efficiently inhibits any direct contact between the liquid core of the marble and the surface that supports it, while allowing oxygen and carbon dioxide to pass through. On the other hand, the finite volume of liquid in liq...

Freezing of a liquid marble.

In this study, we present for the first time the observations of a freezing liquid marble. In the experiment, liquid marbles are gently placed on the cold side of a thermo-electric cooler (TEC), and the morphological changes are recorded and characterized thereafter. These liquid marbles are noticed to undergo a shape transition from a spherical to a flying-saucer-shaped morphology. The freezin...