Yeah, I’m suddenly thinking about rigging up two cameras to get 3D images…but first I have to build a cage mount to get standardized orientations, and I also have to think about lighting. I’m using a water aerosol to highlight the silk, that won’t work for video.
John Moralessays
“I’m using a water aerosol to highlight the silk, that won’t work for video.”
I have zero expertise, never was a camera person.
Still, aren’t videos a sequence of still images?
That it works for stills but does not work for videos seems quite peculiar to me.
Water evaporates. I’d have to be applying water droplets for the duration of any video, and spiders aren’t aquatic.
John Moralessays
Ah, OK. Fair enough.
But, you know, you can control the environment, like a proper Mad Scientist.
I know, where I live, I literally can see the dew-beaded webs for many minutes on end, and they are quite spectacular. Particularly the tent-webs with their 3D structure; quite remarkable.
(Humidity is the key to lack of evaporation)
rorschachsays
“I know, where I live, I literally can see the dew-beaded webs for many minutes on end, and they are quite spectacular. Particularly the tent-webs with their 3D structure; quite remarkable.”
Yes, just before you walk into them in the dark and have a heart attack trying to get the thing off you somehow. ;)
That is amazing — it would be interesting to get a 3d picture. The vertices could almost match locations on a star map.
Yeah, I’m suddenly thinking about rigging up two cameras to get 3D images…but first I have to build a cage mount to get standardized orientations, and I also have to think about lighting. I’m using a water aerosol to highlight the silk, that won’t work for video.
“I’m using a water aerosol to highlight the silk, that won’t work for video.”
I have zero expertise, never was a camera person.
Still, aren’t videos a sequence of still images?
That it works for stills but does not work for videos seems quite peculiar to me.
Water evaporates. I’d have to be applying water droplets for the duration of any video, and spiders aren’t aquatic.
Ah, OK. Fair enough.
But, you know, you can control the environment, like a proper Mad Scientist.
I know, where I live, I literally can see the dew-beaded webs for many minutes on end, and they are quite spectacular. Particularly the tent-webs with their 3D structure; quite remarkable.
(Humidity is the key to lack of evaporation)
“I know, where I live, I literally can see the dew-beaded webs for many minutes on end, and they are quite spectacular. Particularly the tent-webs with their 3D structure; quite remarkable.”
Yes, just before you walk into them in the dark and have a heart attack trying to get the thing off you somehow. ;)