Comments on: Time-lapse movies of plants

Time-lapse movies of plants

carter — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:42:17 -0800

Plants in motion Time-lapse movies of plants doing plant-like things, such as growing, nutating, opening up, and being smelly. [requires quicktime]

By: swordfishtrombones

swordfishtrombones — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:49:11 -0800

Sweet. Great find.

By: swordfishtrombones

swordfishtrombones — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:53:01 -0800

But it's a double... I knew it looked familiar.

By: gwint

gwint — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:53:21 -0800

Double, but I only remember because of how great the site is.

By: swordfishtrombones

swordfishtrombones — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:55:52 -0800

By the way, has anyone ever smelled that Amorphophallus titanum in real life ? I am intrigued.

By: carter

carter — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:57:46 -0800

Ack! Different index page URLs ...

By: PurplePorpoise

PurplePorpoise — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:03:39 -0800

Reminds me of a (short?) story about some non-environmentally concious Westerners taking this compound used by some indiginous peoples that slows down their metabolism/conciousness and they get attacked by plants.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:06:07 -0800

This is very, very cool! I have always loved time-lapse photos and movies. Excellent (re)find!

By: grimcity

grimcity — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:07:08 -0800

Ok, I now think vines are completely creepy.

By: fuzz

fuzz — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:14:17 -0800

Beautiful, thanks! Does anyone know of an ordinary digital camera that can be set to take these kinds of photos?

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:22:33 -0800

Does anyone know of an ordinary digital camera that can be set to take these kinds of photos? if you have a webcam of some sort, you can use a program like ChillCam to capture sequential images at any interval you choose, which you can then piece together into a movie (more info on that in this ask mefi thread),

By: rafter

rafter — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:28:33 -0800

The nutation video is the greatest thing I've ever seen.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:17:07 -0800

mcsweetie, thanks for that info and the link to the AskMe thread. Good info that I've been thinking about for a while now.

By: greatgefilte

greatgefilte — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:28:14 -0800

Very cool, reminiscent of David Attenborough's The Private Life of Plants, which is really worth seeing if you haven't already.

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:55:54 -0800

fuzz asks: "Does anyone know of an ordinary digital camera that can be set to take these kinds of photos?" My Canon S400 can be set up to capture pictures every 15 seconds (at full 4Mpx resolution) using Canon's Remote Capture program. I could set it for an even tighter time lapse, if I reduced the size of each photo. Remote Capture comes at no extra charge with the camera, and is installed on my desktop computer (XP). I connect the camera to the computer using the supplied USB cable, set the frequency and total number of pictures, futz with the camera settings if I need to, and send each picture directly to the desktop, bypassing the CF card in my camera. I recently purchased an AC adapter for my camera, so I don't have to worry about swapping batteries every few hours - I can keep the time lapse photography going for hours if not days (and I have!)

By: davejay

davejay — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:04:48 -0800

[this is (still) good]

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:12:28 -0800

Wow. That's good.

By: recurve

recurve — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:41:02 -0800

Plants are people too.

By: splatta

splatta — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:26:51 -0800

if you use option+back arrow you can watch them shrink! (alt on windows i think)

By: moonbird

moonbird — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:01:45 -0800

i love the spiral movements of the morning glory. what a wonderful dance. great post (even if it's an encore).

By: painquale

painquale — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:33:57 -0800

The sunflower nutation video is almost scary. They look like hungry little chicks (but they want light, not worms). We're hungry!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:35:38 -0800

painquale: I was going to post that as "sunflowers gone wild" :P I found the morning glory vine rotating quite creepy.

By: wessatong

wessatong — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 02:10:28 -0800

wow, plants 'nutate'? i learn a new word every day...

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 04:49:52 -0800

Wow, truly fabulous site...never saw it first time round. Thanks.