While I'm waiting for foundation models to be built and tested for my sorter, I'm passing the time watching and recording the motions of swallows outside my front door. They've been gathering in pretty large groups here for at least the past few days, so I decided to record their motions on video and then do a a long exposure and see what I get. The results are pretty cool.
Here was the first one (a 30 second long exposure, as is all of the ones that follow), which isn't too good but enough to keep me interested:
I looked at a few more....
Next day I changed angles and got in a little closer. The vertical line you see near the center is a power line:
Then today there seemed to be a lot more swallows. I changed the viewing angle again and got in even closer:
Beautiful, useless (at least at the moment) fun.
