Wow! Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Wonder how long before someone edits one of the pics to show a spud?
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 5:04 pm
by sniper hero
cool
I like the banana picture
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 5:21 pm
by kablooie
Yeah, the banana thing is very cool. Also the revolver picture. It hadn't occurred to me that there is not a complete seal against the barrel, I guess that is kind of obvious though. Here's a cool video for those of you who like to see fruit destroyed:
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:24 pm
by Sticky_Tape
Could someone post the picture acrobat reader won't work for me it says there is bad cmap encoding text or somthing like that.
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:48 pm
by daxspudder
kablooie wrote:Yeah, the banana thing is very cool. Also the revolver picture. It hadn't occurred to me that there is not a complete seal against the barrel, I guess that is kind of obvious though. Here's a cool video for those of you who like to see fruit destroyed:
this video is awesome, i wanna see a spud decimate a watermelon!
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:28 pm
by MrCrowley
These are most of the images if you can't view the PDF, i'm too lazy to add the captions.
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:44 pm
by THUNDERLORD
Cool stuff.
I saw something on instructables for constructing a high speed camera similar to some of these using a camera flash in a dark room.
You can really see the way the projectile goes straight and the gasses/ shock wave tend to cone or balloon outwards.
Which is also a principal to keep in mind for sound suppressor design as well. 8)
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 11:07 pm
by mark.f
That looks cool. Ever seen images of the WWII era "swimming pool makers" (5" guns) going off? I'll see if I can find some. There are also some good images of shockwave condensation effect from the Vietnam era.
EDIT: Not exactly from Vietnam but same effect.
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And here's those swimming pool makers I told you about...
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 12:27 am
by clide
Cool photos. The explosion ones remind me of a talk I went to at my school from Sandia National Labs. They had a video that they made to test a 1,000,000 frames per second camera. It was a small high explosive charge in a cubical plastic container filled with water. It was cool because you could see the shock wave go out and bounce off the wall of the plastic.
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