Iris Scans

These are captured using a flatbed scanner at high resolution. That’s right, folks! These are not digital photographs, they are scans in the literal sense. I find myself surprised at the detail you can get this way, the large size of the resulting files, and the apparent dimensionality of the result.

Iris Scan 1

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