detail of a 6 mm blue berry, photographed in direct sunlight. The irregularities in the surface give rise to the colored dots

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detail of a 6 mm blue berry, photographed in direct sunlight. The irregularities in the surface give rise to the colored dots. These are very small so please enlarge the image for viewing.

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Size: 5616px × 3744px
Photo credit: © durk gardenier / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: coherence, coherent, fluctuations, interference, light, mckechnie, optics, pattern, physics, pointsource, refection, rough, scatter, scattering, source, speckle, speckles, spots, sunlight, surface, wavelengths