I have a new toy to play with, a nice little web cam! It matches one we have given to my mum for her birthday so that she can chat to all her grandchildren live on line (the ultimate silver-surfing gizmo's, surely?).
The web cam has worked pretty well so far, although as the following demonstrate, it goes all berserk in a kind of Narcissus-like way too!
Ahhh, now you're putting pressure on us to get all 'cammed up, so we can all do the chat thing. Another excuse to buy a gadget :) Then SWMBO and The War Dept can talk for free...
ReplyDeleteAh - physics everywhere!
ReplyDeleteIf you play a little more with your web cam you'll be able to generate interesting fractal images. A fractal is an object which looks the same/ similar over theoretically all (but in physical practice a finite range of) magnifications.
Go to
http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/Optics/projects/fractalVideoFeedback/
Ahhh! = physics everywhere
ReplyDeleteErrrgh = physicists everywhere