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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.

143 comments

  1. goatsex by Illuminatis · · Score: -1, Troll

    goatsex 4 ever

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    1. Re:goatsex by goatse.cx+guy · · Score: -1, Troll
      Thank you very much.

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      Until then please visit my website about flowers.

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  2. Yeah, no news by MonMotha · · Score: 1

    Nope no news, some of the pics are kinda interesting though. Take a look in your spare time. --MonMotha

    1. Re:Yeah, no news by Bobo+the+Space+Chimp · · Score: 1

      Sadly, high speed pictures are not on high speed link. Site crushed.

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    2. Re:Yeah, no news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Those who want to attempt similar experiments should only do so under responsible, adult supervision."

      Key words: "responsible, adult supervision".

      This page obviously wasn't targeting the slashdot crowd. So in a sense this really isn't news for nerds.

  3. 1st? by JDizzy · · Score: -1, Troll

    gosh, me get a first post... yeah right.

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  4. Waves on a rubber band by decaying · · Score: 2, Informative

    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

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    1. Re:Waves on a rubber band by jedwards · · Score: 1

      Bullet and more at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/exhibit-3.html

    2. Re:Waves on a rubber band by goatse.cx+guy · · Score: -1, Troll

      Damn lameness filter. You'd think that it wasn't working since all these jerks are posting their ascii art garbage all over the place.

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  5. *sigh* by zpengo · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    No news here, just some really nice photographs.

    Ah, geez, there goes the neighborhood.

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    1. Re:*sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Use PHP and maybe you'll get some help.

    2. Re:*sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      PHP programmers actually have paying jobs, unlike ASP programmers. Better luck finding an ASP programmer

  6. High speed photogrpahy? by Tyler+Eaves · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Nah...looks more like highspeed /. effect to me....

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  7. Who did that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ....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...

    1. Re:Who did that... by jedwards · · Score: 2, Interesting

      this balloon + bullet?
      http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/bullets/bullets.h tm l

    2. Re:Who did that... by crumbz · · Score: 1

      Close, but the ones I am thinking of I think had several apples (or balloons) in a row with a bullet going through them. Also, there is one of jack of hearts (?) being cut in half.

    3. Re:Who did that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You can't tell the difference between a balloon and an apple? Let me guess, you are a victim of the American public education system?

      > I have to goto bed now...

      Yeah, I'd have to agree with you there.

    4. Re:Who did that... by CoderDevo · · Score: 1

      You are thinking of Dr. Harold Edgerton, the same person who is mentioned in many of these replies. He invented stroboscopic high-speed photography.

      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.

  8. Harold Edgerton by rackrent · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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    1. Re:Harold Edgerton by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      also the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA (near boston) has a gallery of much of his impressive work. there's also a lot of other really cool stuff there, like a giant sculpture park and art made out of eyeglass lenses...

  9. vog orbis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Vog Orbis has been made obsolete by black and white photography.

    Black and white photos have better sound quality than Vog Orbis...

  10. In case it gets totally slashdotted. by helixblue · · Score: 4, Informative
    I made a hopefully complete mirror of the subdirectory at:

    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.

    1. Re:In case it gets totally slashdotted. by Urungus · · Score: 1

      Yes, it did. In short order.
      Thank you!

    2. Re:In case it gets totally slashdotted. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Good thinking and good work. You're a credit to /.

    3. Re:In case it gets totally slashdotted. by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 2

      Nice...it occured to me to do the same after having a look at your mirror, but it seems like your site is holding up well. Are you running it yourself? How's things look at your end?

  11. Stephen King, author, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Turly an American icon.

  12. Ironic the story that this one follows... by Bradee-oh! · · Score: 1

    "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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  13. Give it up for the BIG BALLAZ!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Head over to http://www.geocities.com/whitegangstaz2000/ and learn about the wiggaz. Get over there or i'll 187 yer ass.

  14. Slashdotted Pic by Skynet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I noticed that "Man Opens Rear Orifice" has already been slashdot. Is the Slashdot community really THAT infatuated with goatse?

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  15. How about some nice high speed photo's of ... by torpor · · Score: 2

    ... a server being slashdotted?

    The bubble looks cool. Is it hi-res?

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    1. Re:How about some nice high speed photo's of ... by quecojones · · Score: 1

      It would only be interesting if you could see the vast array of blinkenlights going off one by one. ;p

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    2. Re:How about some nice high speed photo's of ... by mashy · · Score: 1

      ... a server being slashdotted?

      The bubble looks cool.


      Yeah, it looked just like the netscape broken image icon.

  16. MOD UP - thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    useful.

  17. Idiot... by crumbz · · Score: 1

    ...i am for forgetting to login in.

  18. Re:2,223,507th post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nice one!

  19. High speed ... ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How many other people first read that as "High Speed Pornography"?

  20. Eleeet Greetz to all the BIG BALLAZ out there!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.geocities.com/whitegangstaz2000/

    Check it foo

  21. Suggestion: Slashdot cache crummy bandwidth sites by xixax · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

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  22. I liked the racquetball best by A+Commentor · · Score: 2

    The three images of the racquetball, especially the last donut shaped image was great.

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    1. Re:I liked the racquetball best by Mr.+Sketch · · Score: 1

      I agree, I liked the raquetball one the best too. I'll have an entirely new perspective while I'm playing raquetball now :).

      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.

  23. high speed photography will never be adopted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who wants to pay $20k for camera equipment that can only do about 1% more than a $5 camera from Vons?? The Earth is basically a static place: MOST things worth photographing aren't running around at the speed of sound. Yeah, there's always the occasional jet plane to snap, but is that really worth the extra cost??

    IMO, we need high speed cars much more than high speed photography. The other day I was crusing along Pacific Coast Highway and this slow bitch got in front of me. There was only one lane and I couldn't pass her because oncoming traffic kept coming on. Now if I had a car that could do 400 MPH then I could have easily passed and I wouldn't have wasted 30 minutes.

    But the most important reason why high speed photography won't get off the ground is this: Taco's mom is hella slow anyway, so who needs high speed film to take naked pics of her??

    1. Re:high speed photography will never be adopted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Maybe if you didn't have a PUSSY ASS CAR you could've passed that bitch. Next time don't take your Gremlin.

  24. COME ON! Cache, slashdot, cache! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just cache this stuff! Come ON!

    "Hey nerds, want to see some awsome nerd stuff that sounds cool? Go here".

    And we all go there.. the whole lot of us.. and the server is crushed, the admins have to pay insane bandwidth charges, etc.

    JUST CACHE IT!

    1. Re:COME ON! Cache, slashdot, cache! by _xeno_ · · Score: 2
      Oh, come now - you know that'll never happen. It breaks the First Rule of Slashdot: It would require Taco do actually do some work.

      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.

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    2. Re:COME ON! Cache, slashdot, cache! by AnarchoFreak_00 · · Score: 1
      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.

      [RANT]

      Fuck! Of course! Taco must be a real lazy person to not bother chassing round webmasters of sites.
      I mean. It's not like /. 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.
      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 /. servers.

      Hey... I have an idea. Since Taco is too lazy to do it. Why don't you? Or are you too lazy aswell?

      [/RANT]

    3. Re:COME ON! Cache, slashdot, cache! by zulux · · Score: 1

      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.

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    4. Re:COME ON! Cache, slashdot, cache! by _xeno_ · · Score: 2
      Um, yeah, Taco posts what - three stories a day? Tops? Once he's decided "I'll accept this story," how hard can it possibly be to send a form e-mail to the webmaster? (Dear Server Admin, we're about to kill your webserver. Mind if we cache the content?)

      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.)

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  25. Beautiful. by blang · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  26. This is really quite easy by ravett · · Score: 3, Informative

    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...

    1. Re:This is really quite easy by bartyboy · · Score: 1

      I did some ripoffs of the the famous photo of Picasso in which he seems to be painting with a torch and standing still. Exact same method (I used a flashlight to paint, though).

      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

    2. Re:This is really quite easy by evanbd · · Score: 2

      Hey cool... another S&M alum. What year? I TA'd for Dr. Winter's course in HSI last fall. Cool stuff. He's got all kinds of new toys. We've moved to an all-digital environment, but still use the old computers for timing. He has a new flash, with a 250ns flash time, and he briefly had a high speed video camera (don't remember specs). He's also been playing with a .22 rifle for projectiles (got tired of the old pellet gun, I guess). Check out hiviz.com (was that there when you did stuff?) and also links of the ncssm page. I don't know where exactly.

    3. Re:This is really quite easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yet another S&M alum as well, class of '95...i remember some of my friends took this course...found memories

  27. Slashdotted Already by Kiss+The+Sp0rk · · Score: -1, Troll

    Check out the google cache of the page. The images are indeed interesting. I'm thinking of using one of them for my Windows wallpaper.

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    1. Re:Slashdotted Already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Good thing I've learned to recognize the URL for the comp-u-geek cache... It's http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:wgkZdPI6cLo:

    2. Re:Slashdotted Already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I'm sick of comp-u-geek, it keeps crashing my computer... Can you post a cache link to this instead? The cache code for it is RxCMn4UmiOU

  28. Jet Fighter Shockwave??? by CheapScott · · Score: 1

    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?

    1. Re:Jet Fighter Shockwave??? by jedwards · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Here's an index of sonic boom photos

    2. Re:Jet Fighter Shockwave??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's torus, fuckwad. "Taurus" is a type of car.

    3. Re:Jet Fighter Shockwave??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's TORUS. Learn to spell.

    4. Re:Jet Fighter Shockwave??? by xXgeneric+nicknameXx · · Score: 1
      You can find that pic here .

      Post Comment Lameness filter encountered. Your comment violated the postercomment compression filter. Comment aborted

      Why??

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  29. MIT Museum by yet+another+coward · · Score: 1

    The MIT Museum has an excellent display of Edgerton photographs. See it if you can.

  30. your school sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You learn to push buttons on your camera in the "School of Science and Mathematics"?? You overpaid for your education man.

    1. Re:your school sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      we didn't pay for it shithead...we were smart assess that lived there for two years on the state's money...

  31. Tennis, anyone? by tulare · · Score: 2
    I didn't realize a tennis ball deformed that much.
    I just read today that Venus Williams hits her serves at 127 mph (which becomes obvious when you watch her opponents try to return them). It would be kinda neat to get a shot like the one of this site of one of her cannon blasts.
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    1. Re:Tennis, anyone? by Kingu · · Score: 1

      Was just thinking the same thing. The dude in the pic is using an old warped wooden racquet. I'll go out on a limb here and say a pro serve looks more like the racquetball :)

  32. Thanks for the mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder which asshole moderated your post 'troll'. Hopefully, he'll get nailed in meta-mod.

  33. Re:Suggestion: Slashdot cache crummy bandwidth sit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ummm... No. Read The Fine FAQ

  34. Really High on Speed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WANTED: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 322, Oakview, CA 93022. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.

    1. Re:Really High on Speed by phoenix_orb · · Score: 1

      umm, pick me pick me.

      Grin, just couldn't resist...lol

      lol

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    2. Re:Really High on Speed by josquint · · Score: 1

      I"LL GO!!! i need a vacation! hehe

  35. The ultimate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One day someone is going to shoot a high speed film of someone blowing his own brains out with a shotgun... Rotten.com anyone?

  36. Air gun? by mysticalreaper · · Score: 1

    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.

  37. Turn of javascript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What, are you stupid or something?


    Also takes care of annoying pop-up ads, BTW.

  38. No News by phalse+phace · · Score: 1
    "No news here, just some really nice photographs."

    From Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. to Slashdot: Photographs for Nerds. Stuff that deform.

  39. High speed photos of nuclear blasts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    These are a hoot ...

    http://www.vce.com/Rapatronic/rapa.html

    http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/Usa/Tests/Upshotk.ht ml

    1. Re:High speed photos of nuclear blasts by nwetters · · Score: 1

      See also these famous high-speed photos of nuclear tests (and some pictures of the 'shadow effect' from Hiroshima): http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/Library/Effects/

  40. I especially like... by Nathdot · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...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

    :)

  41. No ma, it ain't a potato gun by Flagbrew · · Score: 1

    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.

  42. Awesome even for being older. by pjbass · · Score: 1

    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??

  43. Moderators, give us a break by Snar+Bloot · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Hammer me all you want, but just don't mod up crap like this post.


    Beavis there says duhuh, duhuh, yeah man that was cool and you mod his ass up?


    PuhLEEASE!

    1. Re:Moderators, give us a break by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If you weren't such a fucking newbie, you'd know that he wasn't modded up. He has a +1 bonus, and you don't -- even though your UID is much lower. You, sir, are a fucking lamer.

  44. Photography? by shaunak · · Score: 1

    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.

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  45. I read that TIME article as well. by Snar+Bloot · · Score: 1

    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.

  46. why stop at a potato? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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.

  47. /.'ed already - so here's another one... by LyNXeD · · Score: 2, Informative
    Looks like the site is /.'ed pretty good, but I did manage to pull all the files off the other mirror (before it got /.'ed too) and got them onto a server with some more/redundant bandwidth.

    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)

    1. Re:/.'ed already - so here's another one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

      Notice that, in LARGE BOLD LETTERS no less, it says on the front page: Permission of the copyright holder is required in order to reproduce or distribute any photograph. You are STEALING these photographs, from high-school students no less! You should rot in jail for such a heartless deed.

  48. poppong the bottom of a bottle out with your palm by sirinek · · Score: 2, Funny
    Come on, thats a redneck party trick, not physics. Real men dont need gloves for it.


    siri

  49. It's not hard to make things like this by tap · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:It's not hard to make things like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Untitled Normal Page

      This website provides "How to" and even includes a gallery.

  50. Another mirror by Skapare · · Score: 2

    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.

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    1. Re:Another mirror by rodolfo.borges · · Score: 1

      slashdot should automatically mirror every url it points too.

  51. damn niggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How hard do you really think it is to teach a monkey to hit a tennis ball really hard? The wayans brothers did the best skit during an mtv awards show. It showed the dad sitting there throwing his piles of money up in the air and laughing. The monkies started fighting and he says "hey don't hurt my money!"

  52. kinda reminds me of... by vocaljess · · Score: 1

    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.

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    "Why is all this crap here?" -- 4-year-old Brandon
    1. Re:kinda reminds me of... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yeah that was Randy Johnson throwing a fastball, and a dove flew in the way. You can get it on imesh or kazaa by typing "johnson bird hit" I think

  53. can't trust [google.com] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Google cache? You sir are a genius (or the guy you copied is). This is a new level in trolling warfare against Slashcode 2.0.

  54. Digital High Speed Photography by ryanisflyboy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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!

    1. Re:Digital High Speed Photography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the current crop of video cameras rely on something known as a CCD, a charged coupler device, to record images... this is done through the interpretation of light waves, as opposed to the way film works which is exposing silver nitrate to light to create a predictable reaction that can be turned into photography via further chemical reaction...
      Because a CCD is an electronic system that requires processing to exist, its a lot harder to do quickly... its not just a matter of finding the quickest elements to create a reaction.

      That being said, we've seen in the past few years the introduction of progessive scan mode, which gives clearer frames.. I've heard talk that Lucas's camera has improved on the traditional CCD speed (its definitely improved the quality by an exponential degree), so we'll see.

    2. Re:Digital High Speed Photography by Skyfire · · Score: 1

      Here is a camera that is fairly nice:
      http://www.visiblesolutions.com/phantom.html

      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...

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    3. Re:Digital High Speed Photography by Skyfire · · Score: 1

      oh, here is another one by the same company:

      http://www.visiblesolutions.com/phantomv5.html

      It can do 1,000 fps at 1024x1024...

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      Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
  55. Haha, that's funny... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    On the very front page of the site you mirrored, it says clearly, in large bold letters: Permission of the copyright holder is required in order to reproduce or distribute any photograph. And yet you go right ahead and steal them anyway. Fucking thief. It's one thing to steal music from the big bad RIAA, but stealing photographs from honest, hard-working student is just unconscionable. You should rot in jail.

    1. Re:Haha, that's funny... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What a sorry excuse for a Troll.

  56. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    On the front page of your mirror, it says in plain English any moron should be able to understand:

    Permission of the copyright holder is required in order to reproduce or distribute any photograph.

    You are blatantly, ruthlessly robbing these poor students of their hard work! How would you feel if someone broke into your home and stole all the software on your computer? You are doing the exact same thing to schoolchildren. And you're even encouraging others to do the same! You are the most disgusting human being I have ever met. Pretty soon, you'll probably even put the pictures up on Napster so that everyone can steal them. I hope you get thrown in prison for this burglary.

    1. Re:COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      someone please mod this guy funny...

  57. Running fine by helixblue · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:Running fine by lfourrier · · Score: 1

      I don't remember all the details, cause I try to follow both american and european legislations on the subject.
      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

    2. Re:Running fine by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 2
      An Athlon? Wow...My main box, the one I'm typing this on, is a 90MHz Pentium, and the server I would have put it on is a 200MHz Pentium. I keep forgetting that just 'cos I've got castoffs doesn't mean everyone else does :-). Not that I'm complaining; they both do just about everything I want them to. But I am curious to see how the 200 would stand up to a slashdotting, or some small part of it. It's got lots of bandwidth, and it's running 1.3.20; the only restrictions are the speed and memory (48mb).

      Hope you don't get sued!

  58. CmdrTaco doesn't STEAL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    If you bothered to visit the page, you would notice that it bears the rather plain, simple notice:

    Permission of the copyright holder is required in order to reproduce or distribute any photograph.

    If CmdrTaco were to copy these images, he would be stealing. He seems to be the only one on this site that realizes that this is wrong.

    1. Re:CmdrTaco doesn't STEAL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Actually, under the Berne Convention, things are copyrighted by default, so you always need the permission of the copyright holder to reproduce some work that you see. "caching" is just a fancy word to mean "copyright infringement". Time to liquidate those Google stocks.

  59. Yes, but I still think it warrants serious thought by xixax · · Score: 2

    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.

    But then the owner could always Slash Goat the page if the /. load annoys them.

    Xix.

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  60. Limp Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  61. NO MORE MIRRORS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting
    "Mirroring", in Slashbots' minds, seems to be equivalent with stealing the hard work of high school students right from behind their backs . Please take time to read the plain, simple copyright notice on the site:

    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.

    1. Re:NO MORE MIRRORS by essell · · Score: 1

      It's good to see that sarcasm is still an art form. :)

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    2. Re:NO MORE MIRRORS by Fishstick · · Score: 1

      Ah-ha, yeah sure... whatever.

      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 /.ed

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      There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
      Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.

  62. You should see by Wet_Pussy · · Score: -1, Troll

    You should see a high speed photo of how much my 16 year old japanese pussy deforms when jam it with my hello kitty vibrator.

    1. Re:You should see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      tastey yum yum

  63. pr0n on fast forward? by jimmcq · · 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.

  64. Reminds me of by OpCode42 · · Score: 2

    the video to Freak on a Leash. That was a cool vid.

  65. medern tech by jlemmerer · · Score: 2

    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

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  66. Stuff a sock in it by Skapare · · 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.

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    now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
  67. For some really high speed photography... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Digital cameras that can pull 1000 FPS or 60,000 partial FPS... That is high speed photography :)

    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. ht m

  68. Shut up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok, it's a little old now. "This isn't news!" Guess what, nobody cares. There was a time when you came to Slashdot to learn something about Pokey the Penguin and the effects of massive amounts of power smashed through pocket change.

    Is it of the same importance as the DMCA being penned into law, or Dmitry, or any thing else like that? No.

    But it's God-damned interesting, and it belongs here on this glorified weblog to give us geeks our dose of what we're interested in.

    "This isn't news." "Nope no news." Shut up. Go watch MTV or something, you'll learn that Aaliyah died (actually tragic), and/or that the guy from Road Rules 48's sister's niece molested a gay eskimo.

    Thank you for your time. When you have something worth saying, go to Kuro5hin and tell the other self-important assholes over there about it.

  69. It's too early. by Josh+Mast · · Score: 1

    I just woke up five minutes ago, and I parsed this as "High Speed Pornography", and noticed the "nice pictures" comment. ugh.

  70. Yeah but... by dynoman7 · · Score: 1

    ...where's the high speed photo of the dork submitting a First Post?

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  71. Excellent shots many moons ago... by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 1

    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.

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  72. High speed photography in movies. by marcop · · Score: 2

    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.

  73. Looks pretty old by kevryn · · Score: 1

    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!)

  74. 1905-1910 RGB High Tech Photography by ClarkEvans · · Score: 1

    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!

  75. Racketball by AJSchu · · 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

  76. Pornography by yolto · · Score: 1
    When I first read the headline, I thought it said high speed pornography. I saw a link to pictures, and the phrase "I didn't realize a tennis ball deformed that much".


    Had me wondering for a second...

  77. very impressive by clarkie.mg · · Score: 1

    thanks a lot for the link. It's amazing !

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    Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russel
  78. where did he get the tennis racket ? by clarkie.mg · · Score: 1

    It seems made of wood, reminds me of the good old eighties when you had tennis elbow with these ones.

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    Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russel
  79. Harold Edgarton by propain · · Score: 1

    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.

  80. More fantastic bursting balloons by nwetters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Available here. I particularly like the cornstarch balloons.

  81. More Edgerton photos by nwetters · · Score: 1

    Fantastic range of images available here.

  82. high speed photography? by i244 · · Score: -1

    for a minute i thought it said high speed pornography.......... now THAT's something i wanna see! :)

    .........i244

  83. cool stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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.

  84. NCSSM's high speed photography class page by kevryn · · Score: 1

    Is this the page you're looking for? NCSSM High Speed Photography

    I'm another S&M alum, class of 2000. :)

    1. Re:NCSSM's high speed photography class page by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yer just a kid! ;)

      class o' 95

  85. Check out the guys by sjbe · · Score: 2
    As impressive as the Williams sisters serves are, the fastest serving guys are hitting 143+ mph on their serves. Yipes. I can tell you from first hand experience, returning anything over 100mph is really tough to do. If they place it right, you don't have a chance.


    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.

  86. The mirror is ended now by Skapare · · 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.

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  87. I met Harold "Doc" Edgerton at MIT in 1986. by NicePaisleyHorsy · · Score: 1

    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.