019/366: Lots of SteelyKids

Weekends around here tend to be ridiculously busy, so you get a cell-phone photo again. But with a twist-- over in Twitter-land, Frank Noschese mentioned a smartphone app called Motion Shot that takes short video clips and processes them to provide multiple images of some moving object. This is, of course, basically irresistible for a physicist.

SteelyKid was invited to a classmate's birthday party today, held at a trampoline park, and I shot some video of SteelyKid bouncing around. Which Motion Shot turned into this image:

Multiple images of SteelyKid bouncing at the trampoline park. Composite image made with Motion Shot. Multiple images of SteelyKid bouncing at the trampoline park. Composite image made with Motion Shot.

The original video clip:

It's a fun little app, if you like this sort of thing. It chokes a bit if there's too much camera shake, or the object is moving too rapidly-- a couple of other attempts at the party just came out as visual gibberish. But it's a great testament to the increase in video processing power over the years-- a free Android phone app can instantly generate pictures that would've taken a huge amount of effort not all that long ago.

And that's you're quickie photo-of-the-day. I'm going to go fall over, now.

More like this