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Subject: [OM] Re: Adding a little science to the group photograph
From: Nick Wilson <toona@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:29:33 +1100
usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:

 Hmmm,
Physicists delving into biological systems.  A very useful approach though the 
assumptions can be inaccurate.
Blinking frequency is also a function of activity.  One suspects this decreases 
when posing for a a group picture.  He also used a system with a faster sych 
speed than my OM-2.  I would rather trust  Dr. Flash's judgment as to how many 
shots are required for a keeper.
Mike 


Perhaps I missed the beginning of this thread, but there is research in.

The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize for Mathematics went to Nic Svenson and Piers 
Barnes from the CSIRO for their research into the number of group photos 
needed to (almost) ensure that no-one has their eyes shut.

http://velocity.ansto.gov.au/velocity/ans0011/article_06.asp

Details of all prize winners at: 
http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html. My favourite: the 2004 Ig 
Nobel Peace Prize for inventing karaoke to Daisuke Inoue.

Hope this helps.

Nick

PS My nephew is into physics and not into biology. To correct this 
glaring deficiency, one of his little pressies for this Christmas is an 
extract from Richard Dawkin's 'Climbing Mt Improbable' on the eye. It 
reads like physics, but is really biology. Sneaky, eh? It all meets 
somewhere in the middle. In the case of animals, perhaps it meats 
somewhere in the middle.



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