Why a specimen looks distorted in a hemispherical resin? -First half
I tried to encapsulate a stag beetle specimen in a hemispherical resin because I wanted – an unbreakable specimen (bare specimens are fragile) – to see the specimen in a resin from many angles (resins encapsulating a specimen often shapes rectangular and the specimen is only seen from the top or side) Figure. 1. A specimen of a stag beetle First, I made a specimen and encapsulated it in a hemispherical resin (Please also see Dandelion seed puffs preserved in resin). The product looked…