Exhibition of High Speed Photography 143
Dantastic writes: "If high-speed projectiles, breaking glass, and hot plates sound like fun, check out this site." No news here, just some really nice photographs. I didn't realize a tennis ball deformed that much.
Yeah, no news (Score:1)
Re:Yeah, no news (Score:1)
Waves on a rubber band (Score:2, Informative)
This [pacsci.org] would have helped so much the first time my physics teacher went on about modal forms in the waves of a single string..... oh well....
One of my Physics texts had the lovely bullet-through-a-playing-card shot.... always my favourite
Re:Waves on a rubber band (Score:1)
Excellent shots many moons ago... (Score:1)
bulltet going thru the apple,
golden earring had that exact shot you describe...bulltet cutting a jack in half.
Totally wicked.
Oh, don't forget the "munitions gelatin" shots
that show what happens 'inside'...cool, scarey, but cool.
*sigh* (Score:1, Offtopic)
Ah, geez, there goes the neighborhood.
Re:*sigh* (Score:1, Funny)
High speed photogrpahy? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Idiot... (Score:1)
Re:Who did that... (Score:2, Interesting)
http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/bullets/bullets.
Re:Who did that... (Score:1)
Re:Who did that... (Score:1)
He had a series of photos of a bullet entering and exiting an apple. You probably saw a composite of a few frames next to each other. Many shots of the same apple with the bullet in different postitions.
I saw Prof. Edgerton at the Science Museum of Minnesota when I was a lad. He demonstrated his camera setup and showed a bunch of slides of his work. Very memorable, very cool. Still cool today after all these years.
Harold Edgerton (Score:5, Informative)
MIT Museum (Score:1)
More Edgerton photos (Score:1)
In case it gets totally slashdotted. (Score:4, Informative)
http://profile.sh/high_speed_photos/ [profile.sh]
I've only got 50K/s outgoing, so I'm sure I'll get slashdotted too.. but it will at least give *some* people a chance.
Re:In case it gets totally slashdotted. (Score:1)
Thank you!
Suggestion: Slashdot cache crummy bandwidth sites (Score:1, Offtopic)
Xix.
Yes, but I still think it warrants serious thought (Score:2)
But then the owner could always Slash Goat the page if the
Xix.
Re:In case it gets totally slashdotted. (Score:2)
Running fine (Score:1)
Luckilly it's not the old pentium box.. Good thing I needed something to do with the Athlon when I moved to MacOS X for my desktop.
Oh, and to the other poster who mentioned the 'do not copy' thing. I laughed my ass off when I saw that while I wget'd the site.. I just said "eh, go ahead and sue be for saving your poor box". It'll make a nice slashdot story if I do get sued, and then the box will be slashdotted all over again, and I'll mirror it again, and the cycle will be cyclic.
Re:Running fine (Score:1)
I remember reading of restriction to copy restriction for ISP for technical reasons.
As you Provide a Service on Internet, I think you should be entitled to an ISP status, as long as the you don't cache any more after the disparition of the technical reason (the slashdotting).
Of course IANAL
Re:Running fine (Score:2)
Hope you don't get sued!
Ironic the story that this one follows... (Score:1)
How about some nice high speed photo's of ... (Score:2)
The bubble looks cool. Is it hi-res?
Re:How about some nice high speed photo's of ... (Score:1)
Re:How about some nice high speed photo's of ... (Score:1)
The bubble looks cool.
Yeah, it looked just like the netscape broken image icon.
I liked the racquetball best (Score:2)
The three images of the racquetball, especially the last donut shaped image was great.
Re:I liked the racquetball best (Score:1)
I wonder if the people who design raquetballs and tennisballs know that they're going to be deformed that much and design them accordingly, I would hope so, but ya never know.
Beautiful. (Score:3, Insightful)
This is really quite easy (Score:3, Informative)
It's really amazing how easy taking most of these pictures is. All you need is a camera that can be held open indefinitely, a flash unit that can be triggered externally, and a whole bunch of black cloth. That and a soldering iron
Unfortunately my work wasn't cool enough to make the show. I guess Dr. Winters didn't like apples being hit by arrows. It makes lots of apple sauce really fast though...
Re:This is really quite easy (Score:1)
You leave the shutter on bulb, wave the flashlight around, stop and stand still, and someone deploys the flash. It sure amazed the kids at school when I showed them.
bart
Looks pretty old (Score:1)
(BTW, I've seen your arrow-through-apple photo; cool to see another NCSSM alum!)
Re:This is really quite easy (Score:2)
NCSSM's high speed photography class page (Score:1)
I'm another S&M alum, class of 2000.
Jet Fighter Shockwave??? (Score:1)
I once saw a very nice picture of a jet figher with a shockwave behind it (sonic boom?)...another nice (vapor) taurus. Anybody know of a link to that one?
Re:Jet Fighter Shockwave??? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Jet Fighter Shockwave??? (Score:1)
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Why??
Tennis, anyone? (Score:2)
I read that TIME article as well. (Score:1)
Re:Tennis, anyone? (Score:1)
Check out the guys (Score:2)
Of course, nothing compares to jai-alai players who can chuck the ball at 180+mph and are periodically killed when they misjudge a catch.
Air gun? (Score:1)
It WASN'T a potato gun, that's for sure. Those things are DANGEROUS!!! We're SCIENTISTS, not high school kids! Geez you guys.
No News (Score:1)
From Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. to Slashdot: Photographs for Nerds. Stuff that deform.
High speed photos of nuclear blasts (Score:1, Interesting)
http://www.vce.com/Rapatronic/rapa.html
http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/Usa/Tests/Upshotk.h
Re:High speed photos of nuclear blasts (Score:1)
I especially like... (Score:3, Funny)
I guess they did that one after a few drinks at the lab on a Friday afternoon
:)
No ma, it ain't a potato gun (Score:1)
Nothing like what a little pvc, hairspray, and an electronic ignition from the family bbq can do to advance the development of the "Tuber-Like Airfoils" division of Boeing.
Awesome even for being older. (Score:1)
Photography? (Score:1)
I'm OK now. Really.
Just me and the lack of caffine in me this morning.
/.'ed already - so here's another one... (Score:2, Informative)
http://hsphotos.wingnet.net/ [wingnet.net]
Hopefully this will give more people the opportunity to see it, and will relieve the other guy's bandwidth a bit... (and probably kill ours in the process... LOL)
poppong the bottom of a bottle out with your palm (Score:2, Funny)
siri
It's not hard to make things like this (Score:4, Informative)
The hardest part was figuring out how to trigger the events remotely, since I didn't have a helper. I just needed to take a dozen pictures of each thing to get a few that turned out well. I would take one that was early, like an ice cube just above the glass, and then a better one where the ice cube was in the glass and water was splashing out to make a sequence. You can't tell that it's not the same ice cube.
Another mirror (Score:2)
Another mirror is here [ipal.org], at least for a while. You can also get the tarball [1058816 bytes gzipped to 893547 bytes] here [ipal.org] if you want to jumpstart your own mirror.
Re:Another mirror (Score:1)
The mirror is ended now (Score:2)
The original site appears to be up and operating fine, so I took my mirror back down. The link now redirects to the original site. 90 unique IPs accessed the mirror site, so unless the original site was way wimpy, the mirror didn't help divert /. effect load, although it probably did let 90 more people see the site without having to wait.
kinda reminds me of... (Score:1)
Digital High Speed Photography (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Digital High Speed Photography (Score:1)
http://www.visiblesolutions.com/phantom.html [visiblesolutions.com]
It can do 1,000 fps at 512x512 or up to 32051 fps at 128x32, and others in between, in color or b&w and it has firewire out... sounds pretty cool...
Re:Digital High Speed Photography (Score:1)
http://www.visiblesolutions.com/phantomv5.html [visiblesolutions.com]
It can do 1,000 fps at 1024x1024...
Stuff a sock in it (Score:2)
It's called free hosting. They still get the credit via the full path, including domain name, in the URL. And it will be taken down as soon as the /. effect subsides.
Re:NO MORE MIRRORS (Score:1)
Re:NO MORE MIRRORS (Score:1)
Taking the pictures off the site and setting up your own site using those images would be wrong.
I see nothing wrong with a temporary mirror while the site is
pr0n on fast forward? (Score:1)
For a minute there I thought the title of the article was "Exhibition of High Speed Pornography".
Everybody just fast-forwards though the boring parts anyway, errrr... ummmm... or so I've heard.
Reminds me of (Score:2)
medern tech (Score:2)
It's too early. (Score:1)
Yeah but... (Score:1)
High speed photography in movies. (Score:2)
1905-1910 RGB High Tech Photography (Score:1)
very impressive (Score:1)
Racketball (Score:2, Funny)
Screw a racketball hitting a wall, I want to see what it looks like when it hits someone in the face. It's happened to me enough that I...oh, nevermind.
AJS
Pornography (Score:1)
Had me wondering for a second...
where did he get the tennis racket ? (Score:1)
Harold Edgarton (Score:1)
More fantastic bursting balloons (Score:2, Interesting)
Slow-Mo Videos (Score:1)
Taken with SpeedCam [weinbergervision.com]:
I met Harold "Doc" Edgerton at MIT in 1986. (Score:1)
I had lunch with him one day, and he talked me into buying a large re-print of the 30-06 bullet blowing through the apple. The deal was, if I bought it, he would autograph it. One of my most cherished possessions.
If any of you remember the early advertisement for Kevlar showing the bullet bouncing off the Kevlar mesh, that was me and my team! Usually, I took photos, movies, and high-speed video (Instar, Kodak) of yarn processes and Mylar film processes.
Re:COME ON! Cache, slashdot, cache! (Score:2)
You see, Taco explains nicely in the FAQ that he doesn't want to cache linked content because that might require him actually contacting the linkee. And waiting for a reply (the horrors!). After all, contacting the webmaster and ensuring that you won't be fucking over some poor sucker who happens to be hosting some interesting stuff off his personal computer requires effort.
Remember the article that was supposed to be linked to a CNN article? But was really linked to Hooters? Do you really think that someone who pays that little attention to what he's doing would really go through the effort of caching the content?
I suppose I should sum it up by saying that yeah, this is flamebait, but I feel the need to vent my anger at the non-answers in the FAQ about caching content which basically boils down to "we're far too lazy to contact the webmaster of the linked site" - in almost all cases mentioned in the FAQ, it would still be possible to cache the content - all that needs to be done is to ask the webmaster of the linked site! (At the very least, the admin would know what's coming...)
Which Taco dismisses (quote: "I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?" answer: YES, damnit!!!) since he'd rather post the story right-now-immediately instead of let people actually access the content we're supposed to discuss in these here comments.
Re:COME ON! Cache, slashdot, cache! (Score:1)
[RANT]
Fuck! Of course! Taco must be a real lazy person to not bother chassing round webmasters of sites. /. get more that 10 submissions let alone 5 posts a day or anything. And webmasters will always reply within an hour! And It's not like he's got something else to do... /. runs its' self. /. servers.
I mean. It's not like
He'll never run into copyright issues, or get complaints from people. Or run in to techincal issues when caching certian pages etc.
And we all know that a script to cache a page, is easy to write, will be faultless, and won't add that much more stress on to the
Hey... I have an idea. Since Taco is too lazy to do it. Why don't you? Or are you too lazy aswell?
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Re:COME ON! Cache, slashdot, cache! (Score:2)
After all, Taco in the FAQ mentions that basically, if the site has ads, usually it can withstand a Slashdotting. Assuming Taco actually checks the links in the story (hahahaha - *cough* - excuse me - anyway), he should get a fairly good idea whether or not the site can withstand a Slashdotting.
If he's already accepted the story, it's only a little more actual work to contact the webmaster, which I would see as common courtesy considering that all of the editors (Tacos) are fully aware that a good Slashdotting will bring something like 10 hits a second - enough to flood a DSL connection or other poorly connected server.
Besides, simply doing something like: actual link (cache) would solve the "not linking to real site" problem, and would help immensily with sites that can't handle the load - if he's accepted the story, then he can go through with contacting the admin.
Unless Taco doesn't bother checking the links. And only hits "post." (Given the number of "This is the correct link (Score: 5, Insightful)" posts I've seen, this seems to be quite likely - unless Slashcode breaks links in stories, which I doubt, since most of the correct links involved missing "/"es or other characters and not inserted spaces.)
Re:COME ON! Cache, slashdot, cache! (Score:1)
Re:Really High on Speed (Score:1)
Grin, just couldn't resist...lol
lol
Re:Really High on Speed (Score:1)