Hell yeah, I remember this song at the end of a Blue Man Group performance, where they turned off the regular lights, turned on the strobe lights, and brought streamers/toilet paper all the way down the aisles. Good times.

If I had to guess I wouldn't say this is 10000 frames per second, but rather the same as the water drop strobe light thingy, if you take a picture every 1/10th sec at an engine running at 1000 rpm (or 60,000 rev/s) you could combine pictures to make an animation because the combustion is relatively repetitive enough combine frames from later.

Seeing that in real life at SIGGRAPH gave me a headache pretty quickly, unfortunately. It strobed a lot. I don't know if the projector was too slow or if the mirror speed was slightly off or irregular. But it's a very good idea.

Overcast, meh, lived in ny all my life, hazard light usage is fine. I use them and see them used as "here I am, and I am going slow as hell or maybe even stoped, slow down or get the hell away from me". If you get strobe blind by red/yellow lights, you got issues with your eyes.

Krupo, considering that the good last half of that clip featured idiot drivers exiting at top speed only to ping pong into other cars, the best action you can do is park your car on the very edge, get out, stay behind the barriers, and hope for the best until theres enough cars piled up behind you. Being in a car while someone smashes into you at 30+mph is just as dangerous as if you ran into a parked object at 30mph.

Where I live (upstate NY) we curse people who drive around with their hazard lights on because of bad weather. If there's something wrong with your car that limits your speed or if you're stopped on the side of the road, by all means turn them on. Hazard lights in a snow/rain storm or fog tend to strobe-blind nearby drivers who can see that it's snowing/raining/foggy out just as well as you can. Regular marker lights work just fine.

ValiantCoward:

You aren't seeing 1 drop moving, it's several drops, each being illuminated at different points in their path from the tap to the pan.

eg: if the lights flash every time each drop is 1" from the pan, it will look like 1 drop hovering 1" above the pan. You won't see when the drops are above or below 1" because the lights aren't lit and the drops are dark.

Same thing happens when a mechanic does the ignition timing on a car engine with a strobe light.

I knew that this was on here before: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Time-Fountain-Very-Cool-Strobed-LED-Effect turns out i was the one who deaded it.

I wish the videographer didn't strobe the shots all MTV-style. It's hard as hell to watch the flow with 5 frames/sec.

so very close . . .


there is still no better musical cue for dumping foam/blasting strobe lights/other mind-altering dancefloor effects than min 2:19 of this song.

these kids are awesome. banned on mtv for the usage of strobe lights, according to wikipedia,

pretty rocking, and pretty gross, but not entirely new to those familiar with Cunningham's other work (or the Sex Pistols, for that matter).

wow, lots of strobing. i like the part where the map of USA pours out cars, hamburgers, TVs, hotdogs, and baseballs.

maybe the government thought this would reminds kids of sesame street pinball?

the comintry at first introduces what it is .water bing vibrated at high freqency. and then viewd using a strobe light so that we can see the movement in real time. and then then gose on to exspain how complex forms and shapes can be formed sutch as the shapes that we see in alot of organisums today.

i think this sort of thing adds to evalutanairy thery and helps scintists understand how complex shapes that seem unlikly to evolve acure in nature

What I want to know is: what was so funny?

"Be sure you get the right attribution there," was Clinton's response. Response to what?
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(added later)Answering my own query: Here's a snippet of the background, from Strobe Talbott, Clinton's top Russia Adviser, full story at http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/052602PostMag.shtml -
"...At the press conference Yeltsin gave the reporters just the sort of Boris Show they were counting on. He mocked the press for having predicted that U.S. and Russian differences over Bosnia would turn the summit into a disaster. Pointing directly at the cameras, Yeltsin bellowed, 'Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you're a disaster!'
"Yeltsin always practiced diplomacy as performance art, and when he was drunk, the performance was burlesque: This was the worst incident so far. Clinton, however, doubled over in laughter, slapped Boris on the back and had to wipe tears from his eyes. When he came to the microphone, he said, 'Just make sure you get the attribution right!' then continued to laugh -- a little too hard to be convincing. (...)"

i guess the red/blue flashers in the back window, and the strobes in the headlights come with every getaway car...

although i will give you the acceleration factor. i've seen some people accelerate VERY quickly on a bike (i live in co. springs near the olympic velodrome) but that's a little iffy for the everyday cyclist. then again, the everyday cyclist wouldn't be trying to getaway on a bike. i'll do some research... this has got to be in the papers *somewhere*...

edit: if this *is* an ad, then i will eat crow. heh.