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- muaddib420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+68you were amused for "hours" with those pictures?
- WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+61He said the pictures were high speed, not him.
- Matteos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20He must have dial-up...
- brianegge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Hours spent waiting for the pictures to load
- god4twenty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I agree....good for a glance but hardly a valuable waste of time.
- Schnep97, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Ok, hours or amusement by pictures. Your parents must have given you a stick for Christmas.
- Pattyo13, on 05/14/2009, -0/+12I don't think the intent was to win web design awards, but to illustrate content
- nahteecirp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10He probably was amused for hours, he is just easily entertained. ;-)
- Pattyo13, on 05/14/2009, -0/+9I just looked at this guy's profile. Every article he comments on he says he marks as lame...wtf?
- SYSDmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7how do you figure? did they even have photoshop back when the design of this website was considered stylish?
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7wish it was video. Still photography is cool and all but think of that frozen lemon exploding in super slow motion. And so i wait.
- HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Bullets aren't pointy, so the impact tends to spread out more. It's why bullets do so much damage to people... They leave holes a lot bigger than the bullet itself.
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I feel bad for RIT. Take that, web server!
- cosmotron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Haha, brought down RIT's server... or at least is making it crawl.
- DarkJC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'd hate to see how long you're amused by a good joke.
- tommasz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was an RIT student in the Photographic Science department back in the late 70's. We did the high-speed strobe photography of the bullet cutting the playing card in half (less messy than fruit). I had an 11x14 of mine on my dorm wall. I ended up changing majors because I wanted to do optical design but the first year of Photo Science was mostly about chemistry.
And now, back to the present. - whahaa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3is anyone else impressed that he was able to fire a bullet through the thin side of a playing card?
- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Shutter timing is controlled (in the gun shots) by a microphone trigger set off by the shockwave from the gun firing. Typically bulb exposure is used.
- Pattyo13, on 05/14/2009, -5/+8i just marked your mom as lame....twice
- bj00rn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm afraid much of the point and effects of the motion is lost due to the low resolution images.
- n8dawg87, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4These are really low resolution. Can't stand it.
- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very cool, although after seeing these every day and shooting some of my own (with Andy) it gets a little less exciting to look at. Still, tons of fun and definitely not photoshopped (believe it or not). His website definitely isn't pretty, but I'm pretty sure he's never cared.
Hey even unsharpmask is a real photographic technique that can be performed in an enlarger, not just under the filter menu in photoshop. - Synchro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Hydrostatic_shock
- MicrowavedH2o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How the hell are they fake???
My physics textbook had some that are similar, if you need a reference that they are legit... This site has a lot more though- Awesome! - WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2lol +mod for effective trolling
- WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2in before animated gif
- nclark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My fav is the frozen exploding lemon
- skarbreeze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Very cool - as an amature SLR enthusiast I really appreciate how much time and effort goes into equipping a setup for this kind of work. Too bad the server is already dead in the water, I'll have to check them out again in a day or two!
- Cvision, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not bad I guess. I just can't see myself sitting down with a bottle of wine on a Saturday night staring at these mildly amusing images for hours.
- Burgerman851, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"They leave holes a lot bigger than the bullet itself."
Quite true. The energy released upon impact is too great to be restricted to the diameter of the bullet itself, especially in relatively fluid mediums where the shockwave can spread more rapidly and forcefully than in relatively solid mediums. - jetta421, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1be here, seen that....these have been posted online the entire 15 years of the Internet I think.
- listrophy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As far as I know, the one-off shots (ie: not continuous) can be done with a pretty normal off-the-shelf digital camera. Here's what you need:
Camera that supports multi-second shutter exposure and delayed shutter (my Canon SD550 does, YMMV)
Very very dark room
Xenon bulb that you can programatically pulse once
Tripod
Subjects (bullets and water drops are popular)
If you have enough patience and proper triggering techniques, you can adjust the xenon pulse to occur at the appropriate instant. For best results, use the shortest shutter exposure that's feasible. And for pete's sake, if you're firing a gun, be careful. - hzmp32001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While the content of the pics is interesting, the crap resolution is hardly worthy of 'VERY cool'... perhaps 'neat' or 'nifty' (in lower case) or 'could be cool'
As it stands, it just leaves me wanting for something I would have otherwise not have wanted or cared existed... thanks for the extra dose of disappointment. - MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1I'd like to see more things like the Mythbusters segment dividers - the water balloon being punctured by an exacto knife with a high speed camera, except I'd like to see mercury or something.
- MightySlam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I took this guy's special effect photography class while a photo student at RIT. It was really cool, and I got a collection of my own bullet photographs out of it.
One of the best (and most fun) college classes I ever took. - mstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1High speed - Yes. But of very crap quality...
- wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Water, bullets & fire. That's entertainment.
- blueigloo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Grace isnt exactly the fastest cow in the barn.
- spide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1fyi: grace isn't the web server... and the web server(s) are doing just fine. we just locked the entire web site into memory to (hopefully) keep it that way, so enjoy...
- kingfoot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4only one i found quite good to look at was the time lapse series of the shotgun!
- bluechips23, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Yeah, that's right!! Go RIT!!!!
- oscotto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool but old
- sparechange, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It also depends on the type of bullet used. The hollow point load, for example, is designed to expand as it travels through a medium, so although it would enter as a small hole, it would come out much, much larger through its exit. It was designed in this manner to increase the amount of damage that the bullet created. Basically, it enters, expands and rips up anything in its path, literally exploding everything inside, and exits through a hole many times larger than the entry hole.
- anudeglory, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0People have got ot LEARN that they should NOT constantly click the "Stumble" button from StumbleUpon and then immediately click the Digg button!
- dr3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey I did that same exact same card splitting thing @ MIT in the 70s in Dr. Egerton lab. I think they probably locked the rifle away tho since then...
- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Having been a student under Andy and a friend, these are very real and a lot of fun to shoot (literally). I've got a handful on my webspace as well.
- hzmp32001, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Even with dial-up, these pics aren't high-res at all... I repeat: hours??
- hzmp32001, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1congrats. Relevance?
- bradeshbach, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2this is one of the very first stories i ever dug on digg.
- WorfoSAUR, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Well maybe he has a 28k modem and it took hours just to load all the pictures?
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