The interesting thing to me is the technology they use to get the pictures. When I was an undergrad, I spent a summer working on a project that took 2000 frames/sec of crack propagation. To do that we had a 5 foot in diameter cylinder that was lined with a long strip of film. A rotating mirror in the center reflected the image onto the film. The "camera" was triggered when the crack broke a wire. The turbine spinning the mirror was so delicately balanced that we all had to stand in another room while it was in a picture taking cycle, lest it explode.
Ed __________ Ed Angel Chair, Board of Directors, Santa Fe Complex Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) [email protected] 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel http://artslab.unm.edu http://sfcomplex.org On May 30, 2011, at 5:49 AM, Tom Johnson wrote: > So it is NOT the butterfly beating its wings in China after all. > > http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/drop_of_water_at_2000_frames_per_second > > Drop of water at 2,000 frames per second > > --tom johnson > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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