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(More customer reviews)STOPPING TIME
"Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time" is a CD ROM that lets you discover the incredible work and photos of Harold Edgerton, who invented the strobe light to aid him in studying problems with electric motors. You roam the halls of MIT entering "Doc" Edgerton's Lab, Work Archive, or Life Biography rooms.
In the "Lab" you control strobe experiments. You can research how Edgerton developed strobe, high speed photography, and movie techniques.
In the "Archive" you can view hundreds of pictures and movie clips like the famous milk drop splash, a high power bullet hitting an apple (instant apple source), a golfer driving a golf ball through a telephone book, or the perfect golf swing using multiflash photography.
In the "Life Biography" room you can look at movies of Edgerton's work such as underwater time lapse photography, sonar, classes at MIT, etc. You can look through his lab notebooks to see how the equipment and techniques were developed.
This is a superb CD for anyone who wants to see the beautiful and surprising pictures produced by the man who made high speed photography possible.
Two things would greatly improve the next version:
1: Add a detailed index or search engine so specific information could be quickly located. Looking through rooms, books, drawers, etc is great for exploring, but finding a particular item is both annoying and time consuming.
2: Include a complete film clip of the Oscar winning short "Quicker than a Wink". Some segments of this incredible film are scattered throughout the CD.
Scott Tilton 7/21/00
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Insightful scientist, exceptional teacher, ingenious inventor, successful entrepreneur, and acclaimed artist-Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton, chief developer of the electronic strobe, was all of these. Whatever his guise, he taught by his own example that science is an exciting adventure in which having fun and satisfying one's curiosity are important parts of even the most "technical" enterprise.This innovative CD-ROM was created to capture some of Edgerton's spirit and vision and to transmit it to a new generation. Users not only learn about his life and philosophy but enter his world-famous laboratory—Strobe Alley at MIT—and play with some of the experiments he created to "see the unseen," to observe events that happen at high speeds.Users can choose from three "rooms": Biography, Archives, and Strobe Alley. In the Biography room users explore a wide array of topics highlighting Edgerton's life and the impulses behind his work, examining an extensive library of films clips and other materials along the way. In the Archives room users view Edgerton's fascinating visual work and see how it was created; subject headings include Drops and Splashes, Bullets and Blasts, Athletics, Humans in Motion, Creatures, and Observations. In Strobe Alley users can actually leaf through his explanatory videos and texts while they operate experiments that will help them to understand the dynamics of flowing water, bursting balloons, bouncing balls, and rotating fans; to find out what goes on inside a strobe in a camera; and even to sample a set of nineteenth-century toys that stop and then reconnect flows of movement.Users of all ages will find Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time an ideal introduction to science, art, and technology as sources of fun as well as insight.The CD-ROM is playable on computers using either Apple Macintosh (7.x or later) or Windows (3.1, 95, or 98) operating systems.
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