I found this interesting site through TMN. There's lots of interesting time-lapsed photography on here - like three and a half hours at Yosemite Park sped into a few seconds (much more eerie a place that way), or watching a woman age over her entire lifetime. But I thought this water balloon bounce was beautiful. The cameraman dropped a water balloon but slowed the action down to a tenth of a second. The balloon begins nearly perfectly spherical, due to the combined force of gravity and the tension of the balloon. But once it hits the table, new forces are introduced, and exciting new shapes emerge. The shapes appear too quickly for the naked eye to notice, but slowed down to a tenth of a second, you can see it all.
Posted by scott at March 9, 2004 10:30 AM | TrackBack