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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

TechAlert: MIT's Trillion Frames Per Second Light-tracking Camera

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A camera capable of visualizing the movement of light has been unveiled by a team of MIT scientists. The equipment captures images at a rate of roughly a trillion frames per second - or about 40 billion times faster than a standard HD camera.

Direct recording of light is impossible at that speed, so the camera takes millions of repeated scans to recreate each image. The process has been dubbed femto-photography and has been detailed on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab's website.

Read More: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/12/techalert-mits-trillion-frames-per-second-light-tracking-camera-1.html

And here: http://news.discovery.com/tech/video-trillion-frames-per-second-111213.html

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