Sun 8 Oct 2006
Photography and Mathematics
Posted at 18:12 +1000
Quoting from a Reuters piece, the Ig Nobel prize for mathematics was awarded to a couple of Australians: "Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, for calculating the number of shots a photographer must take to almost ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed."
The point of these prizes is to make you laugh and then make you think. They nailed it on this one.
Some details of their work is available from an interview with the always excellent ABC Science Show earlier this year the same writeup, but with a graph and a little more symbology is here.)
(Original seen in the Nikon Flickr group.)
Topics: mathematics, photography