I have a new movie made, which may be a bit more suited for those of you working with isotropic samples. Instead of a bundle of filaments it now displays a box of isotropic scatterers at the sample position. Please feel free to download and use this one in your presentations. You can also contact me for a larger version.

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Ok, so I’ve been on holiday and haven’t updated the site in a while. My apologies for that.. I’ve been looking at some presentations from other groups and other organisations, and I see some very inspiring stuff there. Here’s what I’ve stumbled across in general: The TED talks are a collection of talks on a broad range of topics that have to do with technology. The talks can provide a nice bit of background information on interesting stuff besides one’s thesis topic. One can find, for example, excellent presentations on The mind, The Cassini-Huygens mission, Electroshock therapy, The end of the world, and Copyright.   A good friend has posted about a new site that aims to provide video tutorials to some of the (often poorly documented with a limited UI) academic software out there: Screencasts for scientists. – November 15th, 2007I’ll post more individual videos as I come across them. Off course, SciVee, Youtube and Google Video cannot be absent from this list. B. 

This short movie graphically explains the workings of the elements of a 1D Kratky-type camera. Contact me for a higher resolution version of the movie, if you want to include it in a presentation

This Movie explains the inner workings of a complete pinhole-collimated 2D SAXS set-up with the option of afterwards overlaying some example scattering patterns on the black “projection plane”. Contact me for a higher resolution version if you want to use it in a presentation.