I'm having a terrible time with bad focus images. I've done maybye 100 "movies" and at least a third have the surface in focus WAY far away from the center of the slider bar. Some movies are so devoid of any features at all that I can't tell if I'm actually looking at different images or if the javascript has frozen up and I'm stuck on the same one. If we're looking for ~10 tracks in ~1 MILLION images I have little hope the method will deliver real results with this kind of performance. The images should contain a reticle fiducial like this which rests on the srface so the viewer can see immediately where the surface is.

It looks to me like all they've done is get a block of aerogel under the microscope, focus to the surface and tell the autoscanner/imager "ok here's the surface, scan the whole block assuming this level at xx microns will be where the surface is" regarless of surface level deviation, when what they should be doing is surface level calibrating every movie made by using a little piece of software to see where the highest contrast is (like a digital camera does) and or using a small/thin surface fiducial at the image edge. On the other hand the user interface is pretty nice and natural to use.

I took you comment obout the URL telling test or real - and almosst immediately, got one that said real, found an obvious hit, and then my test hit went up by one. Looks like maybe they're onto ppl.

An hacker attack ongoing?!?