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Exhibition of High Speed Photography
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.
Nope no news, some of the pics are kinda interesting though. Take a look in your spare time. --MonMotha
This 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
----- One piece short of Legoland
Ah, geez, there goes the neighborhood.
Got Rhinos?
Nah...looks more like highspeed /. effect to me....
TODO: Something witty here...
....black and white photo of the balloons (or was it apples?) that were being punctured by a bullet? RANT: It would be great to have a 10,000 sq. ft. (1110 sq. m.) laboratory with everything. I mean electron microscope, lasers, protein synthesizers and the works.
I have to goto bed now...
What always impresses me about these pictures is remembering the guy, Harold Edgerton, who came up with this technology as well as side scan sonar. What a guy.
--- There is a man in a smiling bag.
Vog Orbis has been made obsolete by black and white photography.
Black and white photos have better sound quality than Vog Orbis...
http://profile.sh/high_speed_photos/
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.
"Failure of high tech journalism", talking about various reasons and ways in which news sites just don't get it. Followed up by pictures of stuff exploding, deforming, and shattering. Way to show 'um their wrong, guys. :)
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I noticed that "Man Opens Rear Orifice" has already been slashdot. Is the Slashdot community really THAT infatuated with goatse?
Execute? [Y/N] _
... a server being slashdotted?
The bubble looks cool. Is it hi-res?
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
...i am for forgetting to login in.
How many other people first read that as "High Speed Pornography"?
The article's only been up a short time and already the original site is offline. Did the site owner know about the impending slashdotting? Even caching (ala Google) the page being linked to would probably make a huge difference for bandwidth challenged sites.
Xix.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
The three images of the racquetball, especially the last donut shaped image was great.
Looking for any old 8-bit Heathkit/Zenith software/hardware - http://heathkit.garlanger.com
Especially the leaping milk drops. They look like a bunch of tall skinny people. This must be the perfect science project for kids, and for once the results are something that's good enough to frame and put on a wall. And it also teaches that things are not always what they seem, and there's beauty in the details. And (stretching or contracting) time changes everything.
-- Another senseless waste of fine bytes.
I actually took the high speed photography course that these pictures came from while I was in high school (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics).
:)
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...
I especially like the racquetball here--nice final taurus; how apropos for the CG-types!!!
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?
The MIT Museum has an excellent display of Edgerton photographs. See it if you can.
You learn to push buttons on your camera in the "School of Science and Mathematics"?? You overpaid for your education man.
political_news.c: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
Ummm... No. Read The Fine FAQ
An air gun made of PVC pipe was used under closely-controlled conditions in a laboratory to accelerate the potato slices without endangering the experimenters.
It WASN'T a potato gun, that's for sure. Those things are DANGEROUS!!! We're SCIENTISTS, not high school kids! Geez you guys.
From Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. to Slashdot: Photographs for Nerds. Stuff that deform.
These are a hoot ...
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http://www.vce.com/Rapatronic/rapa.html
http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/Usa/Tests/Upshotk.h
...the instantaneous freeze frame of "Lighting A Fart"
I guess they did that one after a few drinks at the lab on a Friday afternoon
:)
An air gun made of PVC pipe was used under closely-controlled conditions in a laboratory to accelerate the potato slices without endangering the experimenters
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.
It's really amazing to see the dates on some of these photos (1990, 1995, etc.). And the fact that these kids were in high school, or just getting into high school when they shot these. I am amazed at their patience in getting these shots, since if you think about it, they didn't get these things "by chance" or "on the first shot." These took a ton of time setting up, researching, and staging, to get them all this good. The milk dropping on the glass has to be my favorite. So much order in a chaotic event... Hmm. Jurassic Park anyone??
Beavis there says duhuh, duhuh, yeah man that was cool and you mod his ass up?
PuhLEEASE!
For a moment there, I read it as 'Exhibition of High Speed Pornography' and went 'What The Fuck?'
I'm OK now. Really.
Just me and the lack of caffine in me this morning.
-Shaunak.
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.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
I think you have an interesting subject there for a photo of this sort. However, maybe pictures of parts of Venus herself as she uncorks her 127 MPH serves would be much more interesting that pics of the balls skidding off the clay/hardcourt/grass.
I like the potato hitting the wall at 150mph... I wonder what kind of symmetrical blast patterns and hues you could attain if you flung a gerbil through the same PVC air tube. Would you achieve a circular or elliptical pattern if you substituted a cat through a larger PVC pressure tube? The shock waves as the flesh deformed would likely produce various spiking and exotic arrangements as the underlying viscosity of the tissue and body fluids differ substantially.
http://hsphotos.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)
siri
You don't need special equipment, just a camera with a flash. It does help to have a SLR though. I did this back in HS for my final project in photography class. I had a water baloon exploding, a hatchet smashing a lightbulb, milk drop in a bowl, and a ice cube splashing into a glass.
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.
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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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Another mirror is here, at least for a while. You can also get the tarball [1058816 bytes gzipped to 893547 bytes] here if you want to jumpstart your own mirror.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
the footage craig kilbourn plays over and over of the bird flying through the fastball and exploding... anyone see that? cool in a gross-out sort of way.
"Why is all this crap here?" -- 4-year-old Brandon
umm, pick me pick me.
Grin, just couldn't resist...lol
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Blah Blah Blah.
I used to work for a studio that did high-speed film work for ejection seat testing. One day the film crew got a hold of a digital camera that was able to do high speed video. I didn't ever learn a lot about it but it couldn't produce a full frame of video (768x512??) because the chip and the processing unit couldn't store information fast enough. It was also in black and white. Even with it's limitations we had a blast with that thing. We dropped nails, lit a match, broke a light bulb. Just about anything that we thought would look cool in slo-mo we did. Doing it the old way (as this studio still does) requires film processing and then transfer to video. It's basically a pain in the butt. So there is a lot of intrest in the high-speed community for a digital camera that can produce full frame video in color. Does anyone know what kinds of technology would be requried to make something like that possible? What if the 'gigapixel' cameras in the future had a 'slow-mo' mode? Imagine all the fun we could have!
I can understand not cacheing a hot story - especially if the web site in question get add revenue from being slashdotted. But a story like this one, could wait a few *days* and still be interesting.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Seems to be holding up, the cable modem bandwidth is the restriction, not the box. It's my lonely home server Athlon 900 running on FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. Just static pages on Apache 1.3.20 so it aint no thang.
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.
Hence I specified crummy bandwidth sites. Commericial sites (.com) are one thing, but anything that looks like it's a volunteer thing (.org) or a student account at a university isn't going to be doing banner advertising and is more likey to buckle under a slashdotting. Maybe something akin to smbtorture and cache the page if it gets flakey on a test slashdotting.
/. load annoys them.
But then the owner could always Slash Goat the page if the
Xix.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
Permission of the copyright holder is required in order to reproduce or distribute any photograph.
If you "mirror" this site, to reiterate, you will be stealing from these unwitting students, taking advantage of their good will of putting them on the Internet. To steal these pictures is akin to the old cliché of stealing candy from a loving baby's mouth.
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.
the video to Freak on a Leash. That was a cool vid.
most of these pics were taken in the mid 1990's as i can see, but today shooting those pics is much easier. just connect a (very good) digital camera to a pc which is connected to a trigger, might be a touch sensitive plate, a laser beam or a cute, red "don't panic"-button you smash with your hand. unfortunatly i don't have the equipment, but shooting such photos must be an interesting thing
".Sig Stealer" was here
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.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Digital cameras that can pull 1000 FPS or 60,000 partial FPS... That is high speed photography :)
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Or a rotary prism 35mm camera that does 3250 fps.
Check out this site:
(Not the best html in the world but great camera hardware)
http://www.photosonics.com
Or for some pictures:
http://www.photosonics.com/application_pictures
I just woke up five minutes ago, and I parsed this as "High Speed Pornography", and noticed the "nice pictures" comment. ugh.
...where's the high speed photo of the dork submitting a First Post?
Blarf.
I"LL GO!!! i need a vacation! hehe
The original Bullet boys Album had the
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.
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
Just an example... I saw a documentary on the making of Hot Shots (Charlie Sheen). Remember the sceen where Sadam Hussien is frozen, knocked over, and his frozen brittle body smashes into tiny pieces? The filmmakers first tried regular video cameras, but the scattering of the fragmented pieces could not be seen because the action was too quick. They turned to high speed video photography to capture more images of the action then slowed it down. The result was quite impressive.
The newest photograph I saw was 1995... Maybe your photograph was newer? I know Dr Winters has a lot of cooler photographs than were shown on this site.
(BTW, I've seen your arrow-through-apple photo; cool to see another NCSSM alum!)
A few days ago my girlfriend showed me an on-line exhibition of photographs made from 1905 to 1915 by Prokudin-Gorskii at the Library of Congress. What is interesting is that these photos not only beautyful, but in color. As you may recall, color photography didn't emerge for some time later. This individual would take three pictures of his target, one with a red filter, one with a green filter, and one with a blue filter. Then he would show these pictures via a home-grown slide show projector made from stacking three projectors on top of each other and focusing them on the same location on the wall. There is a really nice description as to how they made color composite images (now available as JPG and TIFF). Very pretty pictures. Even more amazing when you consider the time period they were made in. If you look closely, some of the images are slightly blurred, for instance in this picture the target's left foot must have moved slightly between the three pictures. Enjoy!
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
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.)
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
Had me wondering for a second...
thanks a lot for the link. It's amazing !
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russel
It seems made of wood, reminds me of the good old eighties when you had tennis elbow with these ones.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russel
Harold Edgarton, the inventor of the electric flash, is the father of this sort of photography. If you like this post, you'll LOVE this book.
Available here. I particularly like the cornstarch balloons.
Fantastic range of images available here.
Taken with SpeedCam:
Wow, neat stuff. I remember picking up a similar book during high school at the library and it showed how a bullet liquifies under extreme pressure upon contact with an iron wall. You may be able to find more photos of high speed photography at a local library. Real cool stuff.
Another interesting fact is that water droplets are silent when it hits a flat surface - the "ploink" sound you hear is made when the droplet rebounds back up.
Is this the page you're looking for? NCSSM High Speed Photography
:)
I'm another S&M alum, class of 2000.
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.
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.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
I was taking the High Speed Photography course there and it was one of the last years that Doc was roaming the halls, since Dr. Miller was by then teaching the course.
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.