Year 2001 Animations

These animations show what our UW MRFM Group presently has "in the can." For detailed technical specifications, consult our on-line NIH/NCRR and NSF/ENG/ECS White Papers.

Small (8 MB)
Medium (21 MB)
Huge (59 MB)

These animations require a QuickTime Player. They are all the same animation; ... the smaller files download more quickly, but have lower quality.

Year 2006 Animations

The Year 2006 animations illustrate the "Quick Path to Quantum Molecular Microscopy" as set forth in Section C.4 of our NIH/NCRR White Paper: "This device would ... function as a true molecular microscope, and bring to fruition the enduring dream of directly observing molecular structure."

Small (10 MB)
Medium (25 MB)
Huge (65 MB)

MRFM Graphics

Here is a directory of MRFM graphics files, comprising mainly frames from the above animations, but including other material also.

Creating Your Own Animations

These animations were generated with POV-Ray, a public domain ray-tracing program. Would you like to create similar animations? Prof. Sidles will be happy to provide you with his POV-Ray source code.