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

Sciencegeekgirl is blogging from the AAPT. She talks about showing something interesting to get students thinking, and here is her example:
This is just too adorable. It turns out trampolines aren't just for kids:
As others have complained, a new and overzealous spam filter caused a number of us ScienceBloggers headaches while trying to post over the weekend and has caused problems in commenting as well. I've been informed that a fix has been done.
After last week's Your Friday Dose of Woo, which featured an amazingly extravagant bit of woo that took up 10,000 webpages of some of most densely-packed woo language that I've ever seen, I feel t