[Scotty]

Somebody posted this on facebook where I could see it.  It's a video showing off the capabilities of a camera that can record at one trillion frames per second.

The effects this has on observing nano-second bursts of light is... well, really awesome.

linky.

[Colonol Dekker]

I made a mess. In my nerd pants.

[Veers]

I won't even pretend I understand most of the tech behind it. But it seems mostly sound..

and very very pretty. Visualisation!

[headdie]

this is seriously awesome

[Klaustrophobia]

my understanding is it's more of an "effective" or "simulated" kind of trillion frames per second.  it's not really recording that fast, it's doing the timed pulse thing and then making a composite.  kinda like that guy that made it look like water was flowing upward by putting the stream in front of a speaker that was set just off of the frequency of the camera.  looked like the same gob of water, but was really identical ones fractions of a second later.  just, ya know, WAY faster than that.

[BloodEagle]

Well of course nothing can optically record the path of a photon.  It kind of needs them to already impact the sensor to create the picture.

I suppose you could record the individual impacts of photons, however....

[An4ximandros]

This is magnificent.

[Lorric]

Very interesting presentation.

[Nuke]

i think this was posted before. but it may have just been something i seen on hack a day. idk, too drunk.

[Bobboau]

yeah, this is old.