MIT builds camera that can capture at the speed of light (video)

[Thoughtless]

[finally got youtube working] Just to tell you guys, you are not seeing particles of light. You are simply seeing how light reflects and refracts in a small time frame. Their frames per second doesn't even need to be very fast, you are probably seeing a video of frames taken from different beams, and the frames are not necessarily in order. I can't see why this wasn't possible to render in a computer beforehand.

[editline]13th December 2011[/editline]

Just to repeat, you are not seeing photons or `particles of light` and they are still impossible to see without affecting them.

[AxeI]

If I understood well, though, they were only able to make two dimensional images for this video by capturing the same scene with the identical light pulse as many time as there are pixels in the image's height and slowly shifting what the one dimensional camera was receiving by progressively rotating horizontal mirrors ? A bit like a scanner then ?
So that means you would not be able to capture a random light pulse like you would take a random, unplanned picture, unless we want a one-dimensional video in the end?

[Thoughtless]

[QUOTE=_Axel;33706004]If I understood well, though, they were only able to make two dimensional images for this video by capturing the same scene with the identical light pulse as many time as there are pixels in the image's height and slowly shifting what the one dimensional camera was receiving by progressively rotating horizontal mirrors ? A bit like a scanner then ?
So that means you would not be able to capture a random light pulse like you would take a random, unplanned picture, unless we want a one-dimensional video in the end?[/QUOTE]

Pretty much. The only use I can think for this is to build computer models of refraction, but even then I think they have already been made.

[Andokool12]

Thanks for showing over two minutes of a guy's face and like 20 seconds of the actual footage, guys.

[AxeI]

Well he was basically explaining the camera's inner workings, so that's not really a waste of time.

[viperfan7]

[QUOTE=Thoughtless;33706059]Pretty much. The only use I can think for this is to build computer models of refraction, but even then I think they have already been made.[/QUOTE]

well, crawl before walk and all that, we may eventually see this made to work along 2 dimensions

[Ninja Duck]

MIT is huge, I remember passing it a lot when I'm in Boston.

It sounds like a cool place but it's also pretty damn expensive.

[sami-elite]

This is a moment in time we will never forget. The time that it became possible to see light move.

[Zero Ziat]

Dr. Freeman went to get educated at the right place.