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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.
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
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.
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.
... 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. --
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...
this balloon + bullet?h tm l
http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/bullets/bullets.
political_news.c: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
Here's an index of sonic boom photos
...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
:)
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.
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.
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
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!
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"
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
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.
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
Hope you don't get sued!
Carousel is a lie!
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.
Available here. I particularly like the cornstarch balloons.
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