Gadgetoff 2007 - Gary Settles

ary takes the most remarkable Schlieren photographs and movies in the world. He uses his refined techniques to understand everything from how a dog's nose sniffs to airplane shockwaves to terrorist's explosives.

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[yifkong]

That was very cool, esp. the part that shows how a dog's nose works.

[MajesticDemonLord]

it works just like a whip, which was the first manmade object to break the sound barrier ;)

[Lou JustLou]

The towel snap impressed me! Thanks for sharing this.

[warjat]

2:44 is awesome!

[jayesh choudhari]

That was cool!

[anonymous6366]

hes a pretty good painter too

[desposyy]

with out science students there would be anybody to use a $30000 camera to wip sombodies ass with a towel, you gtta love science students

[trsboy]

whats even more amazing is the cameras used to capture this cost $30,000 for the cheapest kind!

[msf60khz]

The optics are very interesting but I think a bit difficult. I tried to do it to show a candle plume but not successful with simple equipment. Simple shadowgraph did work.

[dkeane900]

that balloon part was sick.

[imsyah]

Schlieren Technique is one of method to visualize the shock wave structure using optical technique.The other method that can be used is called Shadowgraphs Technique/Planar Laser Induced Fluorescene Technique(PLIF).It is very interesting!!

[Sandeep Garg]

Who is the dr. presenting??