Plant Root Buckling in a Soft Gel
Hovering fruit fly
Untitled from Cohen Group on Vimeo.
Shown is a video of the types of insect flight movies we capture with our fast video camera and the fidelity with which our Hull Reconstruction Motion Tracking method is able to extract the wing and body motions of the insects.
Dance of Scales
Dance of Scales from Redshift Productions on Vimeo.
In collaboration with Redshift productions and Maren Waldman, we created a mixed media dance presentation on motion at different length scales.
Freezing of Colloidal Crystal on a Square Lattice
Here a colloidal crystal freezes onto a square lattice template. The video is sped up by a factor of about 20.
Water dripping
Have you ever had a leaky faucet.... drip,drip,drip. Here is what is looks like at 10,000 frames per second. Using a fast camera (Phantom 7.1), we are able to image fluids breaking into droplets at more than 100,000 frames per second.
Mosquito flight
This video explains why we are interested in studying mosquitoes.
Flight research (for the public)
This is a you tube video that explains our insect flight work to the lay public.
Flight research (grade school and high school)
This is a youtube video that explains our fligth research to students at the junior high and high school levels.
Drop break-up of lyotripic surfactant in lamellar phase
This movie shows the break-up of a lyotropic surfactant in the lamellar phase. The break-up is symmetrip about the minimum radius and no satellite drops are formed. The frame rate is 20,000 f.p.s.