{"id":10179,"date":"2015-09-19T21:12:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T01:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10179"},"modified":"2015-09-19T21:12:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T01:12:35","slug":"019366-lots-of-steelykids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/09\/19\/019366-lots-of-steelykids\/","title":{"rendered":"019\/366: Lots of SteelyKids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weekends around here tend to be ridiculously busy, so you get a cell-phone photo again. But with a twist&#8211; over in Twitter-land, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fnoschese\">Frank Noschese<\/a> mentioned a smartphone app called <a href=\"http:\/\/x-application.sony.net\/motionshot\/en\/index.html\">Motion Shot<\/a> that takes short video clips and processes them to provide multiple images of some moving object. This is, of course, basically irresistible for a physicist.<\/p>\n<p>SteelyKid was invited to a classmate&#8217;s birthday party today, held at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyzone.com\/albany\/\">trampoline park<\/a>, and I shot some video of SteelyKid bouncing around. Which Motion Shot turned into this image:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10180\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/09\/trampoline_multiple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/09\/trampoline_multiple.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple images of SteelyKid bouncing at the trampoline park. Composite image made with Motion Shot.\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trampoline_multiple.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trampoline_multiple-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Multiple images of SteelyKid bouncing at the trampoline park. Composite image made with Motion Shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The original video clip:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0VjQSZSJdxw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun little app, if you like this sort of thing. It chokes a bit if there&#8217;s too much camera shake, or the object is moving too rapidly&#8211; a couple of other attempts at the party just came out as visual gibberish. But it&#8217;s a great testament to the increase in video processing power over the years&#8211; a free Android phone app can instantly generate pictures that would&#8217;ve taken a huge amount of effort not all that long ago.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s you&#8217;re quickie photo-of-the-day. I&#8217;m going to go fall over, now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekends around here tend to be ridiculously busy, so you get a cell-phone photo again. But with a twist&#8211; over in Twitter-land, Frank Noschese mentioned a smartphone app called Motion Shot that takes short video clips and processes them to provide multiple images of some moving object. This is, of course, basically irresistible for a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/09\/19\/019366-lots-of-steelykids\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">019\/366: Lots of SteelyKids<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}