Camera that can capture a TRILLION FPS

Sasqui · Dec 16, 2011

This is staggering, was wondering if they could actually capture the speed of light when reading it, sure enough:

The new camera is so fast that it can produce a slow motion video of a burst of light traveling from the length of one-liter water bottle, bounce off the cap and travel back to the bottom of the bottle.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/world-fastest-camera-153012573.html

Video is blocked here at work, have to watch later...

unsmart · Dec 16, 2011

unreal

Sasqui · Dec 16, 2011

unsmart said:
unreal

How's the video? Feel like I'm handcuffed :shadedshu

BarbaricSoul · Dec 16, 2011

video is ok, but not very impressive to me. although I'm not saying the trillion fps camera is not impressive

HossHuge · Dec 16, 2011

My video camera shoots 192 x 108 at 600fps. That's 99999999400 times slower.

Not bad, I guess.

Drone · Dec 16, 2011

Not impressed. If their camera could slow down the light for real then yeah

pantherx12 · Dec 16, 2011

Sasqui said:
How's the video? Feel like I'm handcuffed :shadedshu

The video they chose doesn't really highlight it very well.

Would of been better for them to film a bulb being switched on or something so you can see the light spread out from it .

By the by saw this the other day and asked my dad how far light moves in that time.

It's around .0118 inches per frame.

Sasqui · Dec 16, 2011

pantherx12 said:
The video they chose doesn't really highlight it very well.

Would of been better for them to film a bulb being switched on or something so you can see the light spread out from it .

By the by saw this the other day and asked my dad how far light moves in that time.

It's around .0118 inches per frame.

I'd do the calculation to confrim that, but it's friday and my brain is working slow motion

Looks like they used a medium to scatter the light towards the camera to catch the effect, I'll have to check it out from home this evening... if I can drag myself away from playing F.E.A.R. Perseus, LOL

Kreij · Dec 16, 2011

The calculation is correct.
Assuming the speed of light at 186,000 miles per second.
Divided by 1 trillion (FPS) = 0.000000186 miles = 0.01178496 (rounded 0.0118) inches per frame.

You can go back to F.E.A.R. Sasqui.

Anyway, if you watch the video, they explain that the camera is taking one dimensional pictures (just a line) and they have to rotate a mirror for subsequent frames. The frames are then compiled into a two dimensional representation of the scene.
This begs a few questions ...
1) How fast is that dang mirror moving and what are they using to rotate it at that speed?
2) What kind of system are they using to crunch that kind of data?
3) Can the system run Crysis? (Okay, I'll give myself an infraction for that. lol)

Very cool stuff if you ask me. I hope to see more of this in the future.

unsmart · Dec 16, 2011

Sasqui said:
How's the video? Feel like I'm handcuffed

Not missing much as stated my others. They need to show something blow up or burned with a laser.
The fact they can film light moving,is a WOW.

D4S4 · Dec 16, 2011

Drone said:
Not impressed. If their camera could slow down the light for real then yeah

don't you get you were seeing a wavefront going over that apple and stuff? as in, that was a pulse of light and it moved that slowly.

pantherx12 · Dec 16, 2011

Kreij said:
The calculation is correct.
Assuming the speed of light at 186,000 miles per second.
Divided by 1 trillion (FPS) = 0.000000186 miles = 0.01178496 (rounded 0.0118) inches per frame.

You can go back to F.E.A.R. Sasqui.

Anyway, if you watch the video, they explain that the camera is taking one dimensional pictures (just a line) and they have to rotate a mirror for subsequent frames. The frames are then compiled into a two dimensional representation of the scene.
This begs a few questions ...
1) How fast is that dang mirror moving and what are they using to rotate it at that speed?
2) What kind of system are they using to crunch that kind of data?
3) Can the system run Crysis? (Okay, I'll give myself an infraction for that. lol)

Very cool stuff if you ask me. I hope to see more of this in the future.

Imagine watching those bullet through Apple videos at this speed, you would have to speed up the film just to see it moving!

:laugh:

Ahh man I want to watch that now, I imagine glass cracking would look amazing to, most slow mo I've seen of glass breaking the start to finish only lasts a few frames or so, would be able to watch it spread with this

Kreij · Dec 16, 2011

I'd like to see the blast front of a nuclear detonation at that speed. That would be interesting.

15th Warlock · Dec 16, 2011

You can try this link, it shows the effect very dramatically, you can see the light wave traveling and hitting an apple in slo-mo, it's remarkable

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Maybe you can open the link on your phone if your firewall blocks it

theJesus · Dec 16, 2011

15th Warlock said:
You can try this link, it shows the effect very dramatically, you can see the light wave traveling and hitting an apple in slo-mo, it's remarkable

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Maybe you can open the link on your phone if your firewall blocks it

uhhh, wrong link?

pantherx12 · Dec 16, 2011

theJesus said:
uhhh, wrong link?

It happens when people try and post a mobile link, you can still copy and paste the last part into youtube to watch the video.

I.E click any video on youtube and replace everything after =

with the new code :toast:

15th Warlock · Dec 16, 2011

theJesus said:
uhhh, wrong link?

Sorry, I posted the link from my iPhone, I believe Panter's suggestion will make it work in a desktop environment, thanks

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Camera that can capture a TRILLION FPS

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