3-D lightning bolt

[n2doc]

Reddit is a great website, where the ability to share and discuss things on the web gives some great little discoveries. Things that would otherwise seem impossibly unlikely, like two people in completely different places getting a photo of the same lightning bolt, suddenly pop up all the time.


Pic by chordnine


Pic by Bobo1010

Having two pictures of the exact same lightning bolt lets you do something pretty amazing; reconstruct its path in 3D. In this case because the precise location and elevation of the photographers isn't known this is slightly more art than science, but it is still fun!

These are the two bolts, scaled to approximately the same size:



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http://calculatedimages.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/3d-lightning.html?m=1

[cleanhippie]

1. THAT is fracking cool!