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Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time: A CD-ROM Based on the Life and Work of Harold E. Edgerton (Windows & Mac)

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STOPPING TIME

"Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time" is a CD ROM that lets you discover the incredible work and photos of Harold Edgerton, who invented the strobe light to aid him in studying problems with electric motors. You roam the halls of MIT entering "Doc" Edgerton's Lab, Work Archive, or Life Biography rooms.

In the "Lab" you control strobe experiments. You can research how Edgerton developed strobe, high speed photography, and movie techniques.

In the "Archive" you can view hundreds of pictures and movie clips like the famous milk drop splash, a high power bullet hitting an apple (instant apple source), a golfer driving a golf ball through a telephone book, or the perfect golf swing using multiflash photography.

In the "Life Biography" room you can look at movies of Edgerton's work such as underwater time lapse photography, sonar, classes at MIT, etc. You can look through his lab notebooks to see how the equipment and techniques were developed.

This is a superb CD for anyone who wants to see the beautiful and surprising pictures produced by the man who made high speed photography possible.

Two things would greatly improve the next version:

1: Add a detailed index or search engine so specific information could be quickly located. Looking through rooms, books, drawers, etc is great for exploring, but finding a particular item is both annoying and time consuming.

2: Include a complete film clip of the Oscar winning short "Quicker than a Wink". Some segments of this incredible film are scattered throughout the CD.

Scott Tilton 7/21/00

Tried to load the software but it does not run on XP

I am an animator. I was looking forward to seeing these videos. But alas. they are in a very old CD-rom format. won't work on new Macs or XP.