Slow-mo Video clips.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2005-08-18 04:11pm

Remember those videos of milk drops splashing into crown-like effects? Here's a library of clips just like that...

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-08-18 05:25pm

What, no Wonderbread Girl?

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2005-08-18 05:54pm

Wha? These videos are silly. What's the point?

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-08-18 06:34pm

Mrs Kendall wrote:Wha? These videos are silly. What's the point?

Is there ever one?

Dangermouse · Post by **Dangermouse** » 2005-08-19 12:44am

Mrs Kendall wrote:Wha? These videos are silly. What's the point?

From an artistic standpoint: I find the water drop vidoes to be very pleasing to the eye; interesting visual patterns and textures are often created in high speed collisions (especially with fluids).

From a more scientific standpoint: High speed imaging is very useful for understanding deformation mechanics, collision mechanics, fluid mechanics, wave mechanics, biolocomotion, etc that take place at time intervals too short to be seen with the eye or conventional video. Being able to visualize these fast events and correlate observations with known theory is somewhat useful.

Maybe most of these examples are for demonstration purposes?

Warspite wrote:Remember those videos of milk drops splashing into crown-like effects? Here's a library of clips just like that...

Thanks for posting them!

kheegster · Post by **kheegster** » 2005-08-19 01:18am

I think the coolest high speed video clips ever has to be the x-ray sequence of nuclear fireballs at the moment of detonation. It expands as a perfect sphere until instabilities take hold, then it deforms into the most surreal shapes as it consumes everything in its path.