17th December 2011, 1:28 PM
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Slowed down to 30.
What you're seeing there is the light bouncing off the closest things to the lense and reaching it followed by farther and farther objects from the lense as the light reaches them in time, creating that bizarre wave effect. Actually, more accurately, the wave is a recording of the light from the shortest path between light source, reflecting object, and camera to longest path. In any case, this camera is so fast it can actually see the light slowly fill a scene instead of how we and every other camera sees it (including every other high speed camera) as simply instantly lighting the room.
I'm pretty sure Sonic, Captain Falcon, and The Flash all just retired.
Slowed down to 30.
What you're seeing there is the light bouncing off the closest things to the lense and reaching it followed by farther and farther objects from the lense as the light reaches them in time, creating that bizarre wave effect. Actually, more accurately, the wave is a recording of the light from the shortest path between light source, reflecting object, and camera to longest path. In any case, this camera is so fast it can actually see the light slowly fill a scene instead of how we and every other camera sees it (including every other high speed camera) as simply instantly lighting the room.
I'm pretty sure Sonic, Captain Falcon, and The Flash all just retired.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)