For two summers while I was an undergrad I worked on a crack propagation project that was using high speed photography to image crack propagation on thin seamless 18” copper cylinders. During the first summer, I made the cylinders by first making solid wax molds that I lathed to the right shape. I then electroplated copper on them before melting the wax away. The second summer I worked on the photography side which was right out of Muybridge. The film was in a 6 foot in diameter ring. In the middle was a spinning prism at the end of a turbine which sent the light around the ring of film. The whole thing was triggered by the crack breaking a small wire. We all had to hide behind a barrier during each run as the whole assembly was pretty delicately balanced.
Ed ____________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > On Jan 30, 2019, at 5:15 AM, Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com> wrote: > > See > https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/science/a-side-serving-of-science-for-your-next-birthday-party.html?smid=fb-nytscience&smtyp=cur > > <https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/science/a-side-serving-of-science-for-your-next-birthday-party.html?smid=fb-nytscience&smtyp=cur>============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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