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My Photo gallery

Images rescued from old floppies, CD-ROMs, Syquest, Zips and magneto optical disks.

Fortunately I still have some of old Macs still alive and well.

School and High school reminiscence

(years 50)
A lot of fun with home made soapbox cars (after school) and funny drawings (during school).

: Membership card of my soap box club

: My fun book

My portable... hu!... transportable tape recorder

(1959)

I was 15 when I bought an almost professional magnetic tape-recorder. This was an affordable Fidélité 58 by Magnétic-France (Radiobois, 175 rue du temple, Paris 3e) with a lamp electronic (no transitors yet) but offering a pretty good sound quality.
I connected it to the radio set and, every morning before school, I used to switched it on to record the famous and very funny radio soap opera "Signé Furax". There was no programmable switch at that time and thus I recorded several hours of junk each day to get my 10' of fun.
With a weight of only (!!!) 25 kg it was considered as transportable and I did traveled a lot with it.

: Photo from radiomuseum.org

First experiments at the ILL

(1972)

No neutron diffractometer already commissioned at that time at the ILL, the only available instrument was LI5, a four-circle X-ray diffractometer Siemens AED.
It was driven by a DEC PDP8 computer and the data input was through punched tapes on a Teletype terminal. Since the core memory was only 4k of 12bit words, our colleague, Alain Barthélemy, had hard days tracking any empty word to implement extra assembly language instructions in this very tight space.
Together with Michel Thomas, we trained ourselves to new diffraction techniques that, later on, we introduced on single-crystal neutron-diffractometers such as D8, D9, D10, D15. We also fought a lot with a gas flow cryostat and concluded that we had to develop more reliable techniques for ILL diffractometers.

: Photo of a Siemens AED diffractometer (from Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)

: LI5 equipped with a nitrogen gas flow cryostat.

Building the neutron diffractometer D8 at the ILL

(1973)

D8 was a very high flux neutron 4-circle diffractometer now replaced by D19. It had a stout eulerian cradle and this make it possible no compromise low temperature experiments (Displex cryocooler) and high pressure experiments (gas pressure cell up to 0.5 Gpa).

: Data input and programming through an ASR 33 Teletype terminal.

: Driving the instrument through the many buttons of a CAMAC electronics.

: The proud team of the neutron diffractometer D8 at the ILL.
(Left: Michel Thomas, right: Alain Filhol)

My son Fabien

(1980)

Refilling the helium cryostat of D15

(1984)
D15 was a neutron normal-beam diffractometer build by Michel Thomas. It is now decommissioned.
It had also a 4-circle option with a stout eulerian cradle with offset phi circle. Michel and I we solved the blind region problem through Renninger rotations.

: I am preparing the liquid helium transfer line.

Science festival in Grenoble

(1992)

Students agglutinated around a Macintosh, a big success indeed! They are discovering "Video_ILL_interactive" an early multimedia presentation of the ILL. An Hypercard™ engine was used to drive a set of Magic™ animations and several C and Pascal interactive simulations of neutron experiments (A.Filhol, Jean de Combret, Yves Baulac, Albert Wright).

Me as seen by my son

(1994)

Yes I am exactly like that!

Me at Apple Expo 98 in Paris

(1998)

The original file by Briq: AF-AppleExpo98.mov

My son "Fab-the-genius" is growing

(1999)

My friends Jacques and Nénesse in my office

(1999)

Together we developped ABFfit (neutron powder diffraction data analysis), MacSurvival (survival analysis for physicians), ABCstat (statistical analysis), three programs for Mac OS classical with advanced statistical algorithms.

: Prof. Jacques Berruyer (Univ. St Etienne, France)

: Prof. Anestis Antoniadis (Univ. Grenoble, France)

JDN9 at Colleville-sur-mer

(2000)

JDN9 (Journée de la Diffusion Neutronique, SFN) : my first experience with a sans yacht. A lot of fun but at the expense of the skin of my hands!

With my son

(2001)

Tartaras school equiped with old Macs from the ILL

(2002)

The Computing for Science group and friends

(2003)

My smiling wife happy to retire

(2004)

Nanopolis

(2004)

Nanopolis, the editor of my neutron encyclopedia "Exploring matter with neutrons", asked me for a photo.

Hang gliding at St Hilaire du Touvet

(2005)

My very first flight! Here the flight school advertising: Learning to fly?

Download Video : WebM MP4

My wife and me discovering Photo Booth on my new MacBook pro

(2007)

Retirement

: Photo of the celebration
From left to right: Alain Filhol, Michel Thomas, Garry McIntyre, Ken Andersen

(30 Sept 2009)

ILL scale model

(2010)

Modernization of the ILL scale model. Brieuc Segalen (http://briq.com) shows an early version of the new interface developed together with Olivier Vinot and Francis Gorgé.

: Brieuc Segalen (left), Alain Filhol (right)

Object panorama shooting

(2010) A high pressure cell is placed on a cradle and manually rotated step by step. Laurent Thion (Ecliptique) records photos at various elevation angles.

Shooting movies

(2011) Here at the level D of the ILL reactor.

My first smartphone/tablet application

(2012)

Neutrons4Science (for iOS and for Android) is an application developed together with Ipter. It offers a set a scientific animations demonstrating some aspects of neutron science and techniques. The animations are both 3D and interactive and one of them is in the form of a serious game.

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Computing for Science

Alain Filhol