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Did he actually repeat the experiment 1280x720 times for every pixel?

• gpm 1y ago
  It's pretty clear he had a computer repeat the experiment that many times in reasonably rapid succession rather than doing it "himself", but yes...
• generuso 1y ago
  Yes, the laser was fired at 3 KHz, while the mirrors were slowly scanning across the room. For each laser pulse, one microsecond of the received signal was digitized with the sample rate of 2 billion samples per second, producing a vector of light intensity indexed by time. A large number of vectors were stored, each tagged by the pixel XY coordinates which were read out from the mirror position encoders. In post-processing, this accumulated 3D block of numbers was sliced time-wise into 2D frames, making the sequence of frames for the clip.