Introduction

Whud is it? It's the 4th annual online game that'll sometimes find you with your nose pressed against your monitor, or looking around the house for a rubber band, or scratching your head all week. Some people have admitted to doing all of the above simultaneously. Sounds like FUN, doesn't it?!


Whole Grain Mustard

Great, it's mustard. But whud is "whud is it"?

A brief history...
Some years ago, while working in an imaging/microscopy lab in Guelph, Canada I ran a contest by email for friends. Each week I'd send a magnified image of an object, people would guess what the object in the photo is, and points were awarded for correct responses. At the end of an 8 week period, the person with the highest accumulated points was the winner of a prize, which by tradition, isn't disclosed until the end (but in the past have included a home-cooked meal, and a snazzy, enlarged, framed photograph). It's evolved a little and is now here in web page format, complete with sponsorship ;)

Whud will I take photos of and how? I'll take magnified images (10X, 60X, or 200X) of various, mostly everyday items using a toy microscope, the QX3 depicted here:


The Intel QX3 USB Microscope

Anything and everything are fair game... jeans, coins, that stringy stuff that you concentrate on removing when peeling a banana - you get the picture.