MetaFilter posts tagged with highspeed

Speed Limit: Cars 30 - Skateboarders 40+

maxwelton — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:52:07 -0800

Adam Kimmel shares a video of a couple of sane and sedate runs down Claremont Avenue in Berkeley, California. (The likely route.)

Frozen Moments - High Speed Art

jonson — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:51:06 -0800

Photographer Martin Klimas specializes in capturing high speed photography, but with a more artistic aesthetic than the usual "bullet through an orange", etc.

Paper TGV

Mitheral — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:17:52 -0800

Paper models of the TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) free for download. Complete with a finished model gallery.

High Speed Photography

tellurian — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:16:26 -0800

Dancing droplets begets Water figures. The full set.

Sprites (atmospheric) - new movie

hank — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:04:46 -0800

7000 frames per second Newscientist article, with links to the movies. "Atmospheric 'sprites' captured in explosive detail ... by researchers using an ultra-high-speed camera. "The best images yet of the flashes – which resemble a giant undulating jellyfish with its tentacles falling from a halo of light – have allowed the team to pick apart their structure and mechanics. "

Flickr highspeed photography

rubin — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:07:11 -0800

Flickr High Speed Photography Pool We have seen high speed photography here before, but this flickr group has so very many different objects exploding I thought it worth a post also. My favorite? Lettuce, being struck by a potato going 100mph. (via digg)

Liquid Sculpture: High speed photography

spock — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:51:04 -0800

Liquid Sculpture: (beautiful high-speed and fine-art photography of drops and splashes) owes a debt of thanks to Harold Edgerton, inventor of high-speed stroboscopic photography. A class on high-speed photography at the Edgerton Exploration Center starts in 4 days in Aurora, NE.

Schnelle Fotos

furtive — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:51:09 -0800

Welcome to my Highspeed Photography Site. Not just cool photos, but insightful details of the technique required to take them. (some pages in german, most in english). via digg

broadband fiber municipal broadband

thedailygrowl — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:19:07 -0800

As dial-up internet access begins to fade, a fight is happening over the right of municipalities to install and run their own broadband Internet access networks. Various think tanks like the market oriented Heartland Institute and the community oriented Institute for Local Self Reliance have chimed in on the debate. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that cable companies do not have to provide "open access" to rival Internet providers. And down in Lafayette Louisiana, where the community will soon vote on whether to install a municipal Fiber to Home Network, some of the citizens decided to inject some humor into the issue by holding a film festival.

Su — Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:26:58 -0800

Remember Bullet Time? Remember how it got damn annoying from overuse really quickly? When was the last time you saw something neat done with it?
Take a look at Lumasol.

disaster — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 07:37:55 -0800

Is this too good to be true? Last week when I called verizon to transfer my phone service, they suckered me into ordering this dsl service. What really got me, in addition to what they have listed on the site was the 30 day free trial, and that they supposedly use STATIC ip addresses. I was also told that their modem has a router built in that assigns individual ip addresses to each computer. [I have 3 - Windows server, Linux, and Mac]. Too good to be true, right?