Nature visible only digitally

This dataset includes two movies related to the article “Nature visible only digitally”

• Full-color_tomographic_images_of_a_rock.mp4: Full-color tomographic images of a rock acquired through grinding tomography, documenting its internal world with a high resolution.
• Digitized_rocks_and_their_internal_nature.mp4: The internal world of a rock, digitally visualized in full-color 3D based on the tomographic images in the other movie.

The information on the rock and its tomographic images is listed below.

• Rock type: carbonate concretion
• Geological age: earliest Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous
• Horizon: Unit My3, Yezo Group
• Locality: Suribachi creek, a tributary of Souunnai creek, Soeushinai, Horokanai, Hokkaido, Japan
• Pixel size: 10.715 µm/pixel (original 2D images); 21.430 µm/pixel (this animation)
• Number of pixels: 8,688×5,792 (original 2D images); 4,344×2,896 (this animation)
• Image width and height: 93.09×62.06 mm
• Spatial resolution: 50 μm