In the past we’ve wondered whether we’ve had archery all wrong with demonstrations of how old styles were both quick and powerful. There’s never been a suggestion we’ve underplayed the skill of swordsmanship in RPGs, though. We know that some of the high action stunts we see on TV are appropriate to cinematic style RPGs […]
Explaining the Archer’s Paradox to younger gamers
The Archer’s Paradox is this; there’s a bow between your arrow and your target so how come the arrow goes straight? Slow motion and some science can explain this. While the folk at Smarter Every Day didn’t intend for this video to be aimed at games (oh, pun), I think we’re a good audience and […]
Gingerbread men cause chaos this slow motion Christmas
What about a quirky mix of stop motion and slow motion this Christmas? Bring on the Gingerbread men who are up to no good. Some of these scenes were shot at 45000 frames per second which give you a fantastic way to view the carnage.
Slow motion: Using ping-pongs and mouse traps to simulate a nuclear explosion
Here’s one for science. Imagine you needed to do a visual and tactile illustration of how a nuclear reaction works. You’ll need a way to show how the addition of an extra atom can shake things up in an explosive sort of way. If you’ve got access to a slow motion video camera then you […]
Smashy! Boom! Nitroglycerine meets hammer!
What happens when you smash a hammer down on a small puddle of Nitroglycerine? Okay. Imagine then that you’ve a slow motion camera filming the explosion too. What would that explosion look like if you slow things down by a factor of 100, 200 or even 600? The truth is that liquid nitroglycerine transforms into […]
