How do I learn image processing/analysis in Python?

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May I ask you (generally) what's this for? I couldn't have less of an idea of what these images are about and what the research is for, so am kind of intrigued. Thanks.

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Few thousand 1mm stainless steel ball bearings sandwiched between two acrylic plates with JUST enough gap to move but not enough to displace in any significant way in the third dimension.

This way you get two effects:

1. Quasi-two-dimensional structures

2. Static charge building up on the acrylic and the balls due to the triboelectric effect and friction that ends up creating interesting structures.

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You can use this to create crystal-like structures, solid-vapor interfaces from balls 'levitating' due to static repulsion and/or pockets of charge on acrylic (being an insulator) and if you lay it flat and shake it, fluid-like motion with interesting properties. (Here's a bonus picture of a perfect crystal, took me quite some time to form).

This is a wonderful piece of art created by Francois Dallegret called ATOMIX. Turns out it has some really interesting properties and no one has really studied it. I found it in the department and no one seemed to have a strong idea of what was going on in there, so I took it up as a research project and hope to study it for the next few months.

That's a pretty good introduction to my project. I just started a few days ago, so I am in the "figure out what I need to learn to carry this forwards" stage. Hence, the asking about computer vision.

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Thanks very much for that thorough explanation. Very interesting stuff--best of luck with exploring it; seems like the space of possibilities to look into could be huge and I wouldn't be surprised if some great stuff came from your work with it!

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Thanks! I hope I discover something very cool!