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If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like? For years Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou has been fascinated by this question. Just as a sinuous impression appears when a snake slides across sand, he imagined, so must a pattern form in the wake of a flying bird. But of course birds in flight leave no trace—at least none visible to the naked eye. Bou, now 38, spent the past five years trying to capture the elusive contours drawn by birds in motion, or, as he says, “to make visible the invisible.”
[...] Ultimately he chose to work with a video camera, from which he extracts high-resolution photographs. After he films the birds in motion, Bou selects a section of the footage and layers the individual frames into one image. He finds the process similar to developing film: He can’t tell in advance what the final result will be. There’s one magical second, he says, when the image—chimerical and surreal—begins to emerge.
Source: If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This
(Score: 4, Informative) by hemocyanin on Saturday January 06 2018, @04:36AM (6 children)
Well worth looking at TFA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @04:43AM
Does it look something like this [wikipedia.org]?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @04:52AM
Are you sure it was a good idea to lock Slappy in your car, run up on your porch, and then proceed to point and laugh at him while slapping your knee? Wait, what was that!? A minuscule twinkling star just phased right through the door of your car and then flew directly through the back of your pants as if it could move through solid objects. I saw it myself. I think it flew directly into your bootysnap. Wait... Slappy vanished! Where did he go? Who just said "Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit's suuuuuuuuuuuuupper tiiiiiiiiiiiiime..." in a creepy, sinister voice, and what is that "rarararararara" sound!? Hold on, my sensors detect that the feces in your asshole is disappearing at astonishing rates, as if something is feasting upon it! And now an extreme amount of tickle is being inflicted upon your ass, and rubbing dirt in your face isn't reducing the tickle at all! The tickle is so extreme that my sensors have exploded! Such a thing! There's unidentified movement coming from all over your ass!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @04:52AM (2 children)
Fuck that shit - loads of javascripts from too many different domains.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @07:43AM (1 child)
If you enable just the scripts from "nationalgeographic.com", you can see the inline images, 5 of them in total. The image browser below the article doesn't work, but the inlines are nice.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday January 06 2018, @04:00PM
There are actually 21 pictures: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/01/photo-journal-birds-paths-migration-starling/#/moving-birds-flight-paths-patterns-sky-8.jpg [nationalgeographic.com]
Yes, I know javascript etc. I used to fight the man but I gave up. The web has basically stopped working without it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @01:33PM
Yes, great photos, thanks for submitting this article.
But the bird paths are about what I expected -- since birds have some mass and limited amounts of lift for maneuvering, the paths will be smooth (low order differentiable?), any sort of kink would imply very high accelerations. Lower mass birds can turn tighter and hummingbird paths probably have more small radii turns.