1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second Photography - Ramesh Raskar



Published on Jul 26, 2012 by selvavinaygam

For more Info about this project, please visit: http://cameraculture.info/news/
For biographical Info on Ramesh Raskar, One of the Top Innovators under 35, please visit: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/prof ... -0929.html

A paper "How to see around corners" published in Nature (International Weekly Journal of Science) can be found at
http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-see-a ... rs-1.10258

Why you should listen to Ramesh Raskar:
In 1964 MIT professor Harold Edgerton, pioneer of stop-action photography, famously took a photo of a bullet piercing an apple using exposures as short as a few nanoseconds. Inspired by his work, Ramesh Raskar and his team set out to create a camera that could capture not just a bullet (traveling at 850 meters per second) but light itself (nearly 300 million meters per second).

Stop a moment to take that in: photographing light as it moves. For that, they built a camera and software that can visualize pictures as if they are recorded at 1 trillion frames per second. The same photon-imaging technology can also be used to create a camera that can peer "around" corners , by exploiting specific properties of the photons when they bounce off surfaces and objects.

Among the other projects that Raskar is leading, with the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture research group, are low-cost eye care devices, a next generation CAT-Scan machine and human-computer interaction systems. "Though photographs in the near future will still be composed by people holding cameras, it will gradually become more accurate to say pictures were computed rather than 'taken' or 'captured.'"

Popular Photography magazine
Photography is about creating images by recording light. Ramesh Raskar has invented a camera that can photograph light itself as it moves at, well, the speed of light.
Source: www.ted.com/talks
Original Location of the above talk: http://on.ted.com/Raskar

The above video is not owned by me, This video is filmed at TED Global Events.

For more videos on Mr Raskar & the project, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/user/cameramit

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Following one of the links above.....

If you can manage an hour and a quarter

Very interesting

Terence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder, UCLA

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Do not go gentle into that good night.
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I already posted a thread for a "Flash" Scale of the Universe demonstration....

Here is an interactive "Picture" of the Universe... showing the scale of....

Life, The Universe and everything!

Link(Interactive)
http://htwins.net/scale2/

Screen Shot (Not interactive)

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Do not go gentle into that good night.
___________ Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Wow! This blew my mind.

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What have you done to the cat, dear? He looks half-dead. - Mrs. Schrödinger