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Filming Light, literally.

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Tikayt
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Project which came to light at MIT. You might know about this but it's pretty... insane. I mean the guys catched a stroke of light in movement, slowing a motion so-called speed of light...
Mind blowing.
Check it out.

Apr 26 2013 3:09PM
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Tikayt
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Article is in French but here's the video

Apr 26 2013 4:15PM
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kalum.ko
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my god
Apr 27 2013 2:29AM
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Mag
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Pretty sure this is a repost, iirc Is he not simply lighting areas using photons of light? Not actually taking a photo of "light"? Or am I wrong?
Apr 27 2013 2:48AM
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mt.hemel
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And with this technology they have almost been able to capture the image of a woman with her mouth shut.
Apr 27 2013 7:43AM
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Tikayt
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You're right, I think they shot a beam of light or something like that and captured at 3 Billion fps.
What's amazing is that they captured something that's truly unseeable.
I wondered how that could have affected religion thoughts in middle age.
Apr 28 2013 3:48AM
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_RNS_
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*1 trillion. The camera itself does not shoot 1 trillion fps, but they used multiple shots captured at different points in time. The camera only shoots on one plane, meaning the images are useless by themselves. They used mirrors to counteract this.
Apr 29 2013 12:35PM
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Mag
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What do you mean by this, multiple shots captured at different points in time?
Apr 29 2013 12:40PM
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quixotic
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They set up staggered camera shots of the same pulse of light being shot and then wove all the footage together. Say you have a camera that shoots 60fps. Now make sure you press record at the precisely one tenth of a second intervals. So you shoot 60fps at .1, .2, .3, all the way through a second. Then from the 2nd second on once you weave those 10 60fps shots, it will be at 600fps if you shot everything at the precisely correct interval and woven together with care (use computer programming to make sure everything is accurate).
Apr 29 2013 5:43PM
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Mag
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oh got you, makes it a bit less mindblowing, what fps were they shooting at?
Apr 29 2013 5:45PM
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quixotic
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it says in the video. i don't remember though.. i watched it a few months ago.
Apr 30 2013 1:12PM
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De-Clan
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only at MIT

Apr 30 2013 3:50PM
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