See link: Just frigging amazing.-- RayfordSteele, Jan 22 2012 World's Fastest Slow-Motion Camera http://web.mit.edu/...ps-camera-1213.htmlI'd like to see Neo try and keep up with this one. [RayfordSteele, Jan 22 2012] [marked-for-expiry]-- RayfordSteele, Jan 22 2012 hmmm, very cool, but it isn't really a single burst of light they have captured is it?It's a composite of a whole bunch of bursts of light seamed together.
There must be a way to take all of the one dimensional slices simultaneously for a true image.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jan 22 2012 Streak cameras have been around since the late 1960's for use in imaging rapid explosive detonations.
The technique of acquiring successively delayed timed images of a repetitive event is widely known.
The novelty of the link is that it shows a neat technique for imaging a 2D propagation over time [+].-- csea, Jan 23 2012 random, halfbakery