Inside an Optical Mouse
A long-form 3D engineering explainer that moves from an exploded mouse to microscopic surface images and a spatial algorithm demo.
By @BranchEducation for Branch EducationRuns 12:03
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Why it works
The opening assembles a familiar object by 0:03, then narrows seven subsystems to one mechanism by 0:23. Scale changes turn invisible operations into evidence: a light path at 0:59, surface ridges at 1:40, paired samples at 3:18, and a shifting pixel map at 4:20. The excerpt's replay peaks at 2:10–2:17 and 4:20–4:28 coincide with the surface and comparison explanations.
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