Boom De Yada, Boom De Yada…
I have to admit, today’s XKCD comic took me until the second “Boom De Yada” before I recognized it was a song…
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The Discovery Channel commercial that it was based on is pretty good too:
Date: June 26th, 2008
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Review of the MIT High Speed Photography Short Course
Last week, in addition to being introduced to the Miracle of Science Bar and Grill*, I had the opportunity to attend the professional short course from MIT’s Edgerton Center, High-Speed Imaging for Motion Analysis: Systems and Techniques.
Below are a few of the images captured during the course, during the bullet lab. It consisted of taking still images with a 500 nanosecond strobe of (what else?) .22 bullets going through things. These were taken in a dark room with the camera shutter open, and a microphone trigger for the strobe. I re-hosted these and others in the general photography section of this site and in addition you can find them on the Edgerton Center Site, along with others from previous years.
