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.

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

First experiments at the ILL.

(1972)

Not yet any neutrons at that time but LI5, an four-circle X-ray diffractometer Siemens AED.
It was driven by a DEC PDP8 and the data input was through punched tapes on a Teletype terminal.
Together with Michel Thomas, we fought a lot with a 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 on 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.

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 (U. St Etienne) and Nénesse (U.Grenoble) 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.

JDN9 (Journée de la Diffusion Neutronique, SFN) at Colleville-sur-mer.

(2000)

A lot of fun but at the expense of the skin of my hands!

SFN - JD9

With my son.

(2001)

Tartaras school equiped with old Macs from the ILL.

(2002)

The Computing for Science groups and friends.

(2003)

With 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, my very first flight!

(2005)

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.

Computing for Science

Alain Filhol