Watch light move: Photography at a trillion fps

[r.harris1]

A light diversion from everyday topics. This is a recent TED talk given by Ramesh Raskar on a camera that operates at 1 trillion frames per second, which is fast enough to show packets of photons move. A camera that sees around corners . Really, really interesting talk if you have 10 minutes.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillion_frames_per_second.html#_=_

 

[snberk103]

That was great. How soon before we can buy one, eh?

 

[emorydunn]

That was great. How soon before we can buy one, eh?

He said all of the data was open-source. Maybe you can build one?

 

[Eolian]

Fascinating to comprehend the speeds and widths of the laser 'bullets' he's capturing here ... Just amazing. The analogy of an actual bullet taking about a year to travel through the same bottle at the fps shown really brought it home.

Great stuff, thank you for sharing.