merry go round
rallain | July 28, 2009Thanks to reader Cleon for notifying me of this video on youtube. Check it out.
First, some notes.
I am sure you noticed that the aspect ratio is incorrect (at least that was the first thing I noticed). The boys must have made a 16:9 video, but then uploaded it to youtube as a 4:3. This doesn't really affect the analysis, but I had to fix it. I used the awesome firefox plugin NetVideoHunter to download the video and then used MPEG Streamclip to resize the video.
Other than that, they did follow my suggestions for making videos. The camera doesn't move and is mostly perpendicular to the…