abedavis

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by abedavis 10y ago
No worries. I totally understand (and invite) the skepticism. It's good to question this kind of press when you see it, and try to understand where the technology really is. I just think it's important not to assume that anything
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by abedavis 10y ago
Hey, first author here. Good questions. The simulation runs in realtime, and is interactive. Generating the simulation can take a while though. The 5 second video took about a minute to process on my laptop. But longer videos, and higher-re
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by abedavis 10y ago
A big part of it is that measuring the vibrations of large structures, like buildings or bridges, can be inconvenient and expensive. There are limited cases where you can measure new stuff with video simply because you don't have to to
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by abedavis 10y ago
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that :) And, in fact, I'm not at all upset about the original comment - I totally get where the skepticism comes from. Polish and substance are too often uncorrelated when it comes to science in the
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by abedavis 10y ago
I should also mention that the people at MIT CSAIL news are very good. They put a lot more attention into fact checking and making sure things are accurate than your average reporter. They set a pretty good example. To the advantage of bein
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by abedavis 10y ago
I am a grad student. If you consider how many hours I work, I probably make less than minimum wage. I am also the first author of the paper described in these videos, which my colleagues and I published in the top academic journal in our fi
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by abedavis 12y ago
The camera used in most of these experiments (a Phantom high speed camera) doesn't even have a microphone - so that would be quite impossible.
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by abedavis 13y ago
Hi guys, I'm a PhD student at MIT and I turned my research into a free iOS app called Caperture. I hope some of you will like it. Cheers!
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3D Photography: Capturing light fields with an iPhone.(capertureapp.com)
3 points by abedavis 13y ago|2 comments