You Finish You Win

[Dr Skimeister]

from today's New York Times online edition

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...azine/20081031_skiing_graphics.html?th&emc=th

 

[drjeff]

Awesome find Doc!

And I'm guessing you had a good trip to CT this weekend (or atleast your Mountaineers sure did)

 

[Glenn]

Very nice find! Thanks for sharing.

 

[TheBEast]

Damn that is super cool!

 

[hardline]

why would they just not use some helmet cam footy. cool none the less.

 

[drjeff]

why would they just not use some helmet cam footy. cool none the less.

CGI gives a MUCH steadier view of the Hannenkam over helmetcam. That course at Kitzbuhl is real rough and choppy. Trying to watch the helmet cam footage that TV shows each year during the race practically gives you motion sickness!

 

[hardline]

CGI gives a MUCH steadier view of the Hannenkam over helmetcam. That course at Kitzbuhl is real rough and choppy. Trying to watch the helmet cam footage that TV shows each year during the race practically gives you motion sickness!

they have some pretty light weight steady cam mounts now.

 

[drjeff]

they have some pretty light weight steady cam mounts now.

Problem still is, the PERSON the cam is mounted to is the moving part

 

[hardline]

Problem still is, the PERSON the cam is mounted to is the moving part

the point of a stedy cam is so that camara stays a fixed point while the body can move. well not a fixed point but it slows the movement of bigger hits and cancels out smaller vibration.

 

[Dr Skimeister]

Awesome find Doc!

And I'm guessing you had a good trip to CT this weekend (or atleast your Mountaineers sure did)

One fun trip to East Hartford.

The Mountaineers played an excellent 2nd half....
I must say that UCONN fans evacuated the stadium even faster than Rutgers' fans did last year once they fell 2 TD behind. By the end of the game, I'd guess that there were twice as many people in the WVU visitor's section than there was in the rest of the stadium...and that includes the UCONN band.

 

[ctenidae]

That doesn't seem that hard.

Of course, sitting in my office, watching the computer, anything seems easy.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Great stuff doc thanx