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Oct. 07, 2011
3D Up In Flames
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Humans are thought to have mastered controlled fire in the middle of the Paleolithic era. Half a million years later, engineers Tadd Truscott and Dale Tree, of Brigham Young University, are trying to quantify it. Using high speed cameras and computer algorithms, they are reconstructing fire, digitally. Understanding flames better can help us use fire better, they say.
flame footage: Dale R. Tree Tadd T. Truscott Preston Murray Jonathon Pendlebury
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