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Scientists Build World's Fastest Camera
Hugh Pickens writes "Researchers have developed a camera that snaps images less than a half a billionth of a second long and can capture over six million images in a second continuously. Dubbed Serial Time-Encoded Amplified imaging, or Steam, the technique depends on carefully manipulating so-called 'supercontinuum' laser pulses. While other cameras used in scientific research can capture shorter-lived images, they can only capture about eight images, and have to be triggered to do so for a given event. The Steam camera, by contrast, can capture images continuously, making it ideal for random events that cannot be triggered. Keisuke Gode, lead author of the study, and his colleagues used their camera to image minute spheres flowing along a thin tube of water in a microfluidic device." (More below.)
High Pickens continues: "Using the STEAM camera they were able to image the spheres at a frame rate of 6.1 megahertz — in other words, the camera took a picture once every 163 nanoseconds. The camera could be used for studies of combustion, laser cutting and any system that changes quickly and unpredictably. One important application would be analyzing flowing blood samples. Because the imaging of individual cells in a volume of blood is impossible for current cameras, a small random sample is taken and those few cells are imaged manually with a microscope. 'But, what if you needed to detect the presence of very rare cells that, although few in number, signify early stages of a disease?,' asks Gode, citing circulating tumor cells as a perfect example of such a target. The team is working to extend the technique to 3-D imaging with the same time resolution, and to increase the effective number of pixels in a given image from 2,500 to 100,000."
But is this fast enough to photograph my wife with a closed mouth?
particle events. super hardon collider type things.
Is that some new porno I'm too old to understand?
I just did.
Want to see it again?
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Who the hell sifts through all these pictures after they are taken?
...image pixel area is 1x1!
Super hardon collider? Dude, if you're doing it that fast; stop. Just stop. It's really meant to be enjoyed.
Ask her to say something nice about you.
Using FireWire, of course! Because USB would suck for this. Actually, USB sucks not just for this.
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... scientists now hope to catch Rosie O'Donnell in the act of stealing cheetos from infants.
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Steam? sounds like vaporware to me.
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>> particle events. super hardon collider type things.
> Is that some new porno I'm too old to understand?
I thought it was a major upgrade of Ubuntu Hairy Hardon (8.04). Maybe I got that wrong.
My other car is a 1984 Nark Avenger.
A 6-million core Beowulf cluster? ;)
The roadrunner?
You can capture 6 million images per second, but you'll be charged $1/GB to download them.
Nah. At 2500 pixels (not mega! not even kilo!), you only get 6100000*2500*3 = 45.75 GB/min, or (*60) 2.745 TB per minute. ^^
Want a full two-hour movie? Well, then you only need 329.4 TB of space
What you say? Full-HD you want? Then 273.21754 petabytes you must have! All your bytes are belong to us!
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