As the recent Facebook data disclosure suggests, it's very easy nowadays to capture personal content without individual's consent or knowledge. Therefore, we need to think carefully through our policies and procedures to make sure that we are being good stewards of digital content. Ethical issues are of course not new to the profession. In addition, we have a longstanding code of ethics which covers several aspects, including professional judgment, carrying out basic archival tasks, protecting record authenticity, access to and use of records, professional relationships with donors, privacy issues, insurance security against theft, and questions of trust and archivist conduct. So let's examine a few of these and please forgive me from the outset as these are in some sense intertwined and or inseparable and therefore hard to unpack in a linear fashion, but let me at least set out some core concepts. So appraisal, let's start with the question of what should we collect and why. The digital revolution has introduced several new concerns for archivists when it comes to appraisal. I talked last time about the digital deluge governing our work in every aspect to effectively narrow our focus to determine how easily to identify and capture digital collections selectively rather than their entirety, especially when context is missing or hard to determine. In other words, given the considerable time associated with processing and providing access to digital content, we need to make sure that we're only taking in content that warrants such a commitment. So how do you appraise a mountain of electronic files? Let's take two case studies. As we take in more and more born digital content from creators, including disks, flash drives, hard drives or several computers, we've had to redouble our efforts to address creators' intentions and desires with respect to content we can retrieve or copy from media. That is, with our ability to utilize powerful tools in use by law enforcement and the FBI, we must ask ourselves what materials are in scope for capture. We can easily capture everything, but should we? For example, given said tools, we can create bit-for-bit image of a hard drive that will capture everything, including deleted files. Or, on the other hand, do we just capture what they specify or what we can easily determine from their working files? What if the creators no longer are alive to address these concerns? These types of appraisal questions are obviously not new. There are well-known cases of individuals who have either complied with or gone against creators' intentions.  Very punk rock. Others have saved materials despite their creators' specific intentions, including Kafka's literary agent. Sure, we'd all be tempted to do otherwise, but fundamentally, we as professionals have to comply with donors' intent. So let's get back to the challenge of appraising electronic records. So what's new with digital files is that it's so easy to collect everything. It's no longer a matter of space or cost, for the most part. But then again, as long as with analog files, we don't want everything. So we have to somehow determine, in keeping with donors' wishes, what we want and why. As a result, our default policy is to create disk images in a logical capture that is specific files and folders and not what we call a forensic capture or everything, including deleted files. Now, this may not always be possible given issues with various media when under certain time constraints, not being able to easily navigate file organization, file structure, languages, etc. As a result, when we do have to create a forensic capture, we treat raw, unprocessed disk images as restricted, not open to researchers. Only processed portions will then be made available to the public, and I'll explain what I mean by processing them a little bit. For the moment, though, why does this matter? What are the ethical implications of creating disk images? Well, for one, and beyond complying with donor intentions, is that of provenance. That is, we need to accurately and securely transfer authentic records in a well-documented process to guarantee consistent, reliable, trustworthy records. As more and more records are born digital, we need to make sure our procedures adhere to principles, guaranteeing third-party review in cases of open records request, FOIA request, indoor e-discovery, or litigation. A second reason concerns records management and compliance. In the case of a university, for example, we deal with student records, medical records, personnel records, financial records, all the sexy, scary things that make headlines when they are improperly accessed, shared, or used inappropriately. We need to guarantee that the tools and procedures utilized conform with principles of secure handling and or destruction of sensitive records. Utilizing forensic or raw captures of media output from this type of information puts us at risk for taking content we should not, which brings me to a second use case. Email. Particularly troublesome for a variety of reasons. First is a sheer volume of messages. We've recently taken in collections in excess of over 600,000 email messages. Second is the fact that email is often used for both professional and personal use, hence there is a lot of potentially sensitive content to be found in otherwise routine business records. Third, it's rarely organized, certainly not well done over an extended period of time. Several years ago we did an informal survey of faculty email, and we found that 80% of faculty did not create folders. Gmail and search is primarily to blame for that. To address these varied issues, we've worked with developers to create a sophisticated email archiving tool, I spoke last time, about called E-PAD. So E-PAD includes functionality that allows us to run regular expressions, pattern matching searches, and custom lexicon searches to look for and filter out sensitive content. Further, it allows us to select individual accounts and or correspondence to include or not. It even searches attachments and has an image browser for viewing photographs, which might come in handy when dealing with certain politicians. We therefore utilize every one of these functions, often with input from the creator, to winnow down material to a subset available for public access. Now since we don't provide full unfettered access to individuals' entire email accounts, E-PAD utilizes natural language processing to index names, places, and subjects, which themselves can be shared online so that users can determine whether or not an email corpus is relevant to their research to warrant a trip to Stanford. So up to now I've talked solely about reactive collecting. So let's switch gears and talk about proactive collecting and its ethical challenges. As tools make it easier to capture more and more of our online presence, we need to make sure that we are applying similar ethical considerations in terms of notification of consent, particularly for individuals and groups who have no voice or role in collections' creation, retention, or public use. It's fairly straightforward to negotiate capture of institutional and personal sites using standard agreements or deeds of gift. But what about trends or spontaneous events, such as those highlighted in Twitter hashtags or spontaneous events captured by web archiving? Given the ephemeral nature of websites and social media, tools have been primarily designed up until this point to capture first and even ignore robots.txt files. This has sometimes been necessary, say during the Arab Spring or other crisis in totalitarian regimes where content, if it is not immediately captured to document what's going on, it will later be deleted by authorities and hence disappear from the historical record. Hence the trend has been to capture now and figure out access later. However, now that our systems have matured and researchers are interested in actually using these materials, we are now being forced to figure out how to provide access and as a result requirements for notification and opportunity for those who wish to opt out. Thankfully, our profession has responded to these concerns from the resurgence of activism sweeping our country. As more and more communities utilize Twitter for communication and documentation, we've created tools to allow ethical capture. Notification and inclusion in community archives. Just this last week, a conference was held in New York on the ethics of web archiving. Several great sessions examined these issues and recommended real solutions that we at Stanford and the larger archival community will follow. Let's switch gears again and talk about providing access to all of this content. In our previous session, I discussed several tools that we utilized for providing access. What I didn't discuss is the decisions that need to be made to provide access to whom, how, when and to what extent. Several years ago, our profession looked in the mirror and realized that we were not being very good stewards of our collections, letting them sit unprocessed in dusty old rooms. An article was published challenging archivists to take a new approach called More Product, Less Process, MPLP. In other words, spend less time processing, reorganizing, refoldering, taking out staples, and focus on providing faster public access. Repository's responded and thankfully we're all beneficiaries of this increased focus on access. When it comes to digital records, however, what an MPLP approach entails is still being worked out. At a minimum, we check for viruses and do our best to search for sensitive content using a combination of tools including Bit Curator, Forensic Toolkit, and E-Pad. As good as these tools are, however, they still relied on hard-coded instructions, search terms, patterns, and regular expressions. In other words, they are 100% reliable, but neither then is analog processing. So how do we guarantee that we are only providing access to the material we are supposed to? Well, we rely on several levels of protection, including embargo periods, audience limits, links to takedown requests, and copyright complaints on all our webpages and policies informing patrons of their specific responsibility for flagging sensitive content and asserting that they will not disclose it if they do find it. When it comes to digital records and the ease of immediate worldwide exposure, you thus have to define your risk aversion, which can vary from collection to collection from item to item. For those gray areas, sometimes you proceed with an opt-in strategy and can live with takedown requests. Sometimes you have to proceed with an opt-in strategy to cover all of your bases. How do you make the call? Finally, let's explore the challenges of privacy, confidentiality, and sensitive content through some specific use cases. The first concerns an oral history project with LGBT alums carried out in connection with a Stanford faculty member. Since we have a long-standing oral history program at Stanford, we provided the team with training on informed consent and created releases for all participants. Given the nature of the project, we wanted to make sure that everyone was on the same page and well aware that these materials would be made available online for teaching, learning, and research. Everyone understood and consented to provide online access to their transcripts and to their recordings. Later though, when some started to search for new jobs or change careers, they googled themselves, and lo and behold, their oral histories were at the top of their research results. Now, having second thoughts about the project in light of their career prospects, a few contacted us to restrict access to just the Stanford community. We, of course, complied. A few more requests came in, and we decided to pull down the entire collection and only provide access to the reading room. This case shows that no matter how well-planned and informed participants are, systems and procedures must be in place to respond quickly to questions and concerns about access, even in cases of clear-cut and informed consent and permission. Now, while I'm talking about oral history, let me take a brief discussion about confidentiality. Some of you might be familiar with an oral history collection held at Boston College on troubles in Ireland carried out with members of the IRA and loyalist UVF red-hand commandos. Their agreement stipulated that confidentiality of the interviews was guaranteed, quote, to the extent American law allows and the conditions of the interview and the conditions of its deposit, including terms of an embargo period, end quote. Additional agreements between the scholars and the interviewees promised self-imposed institutional limitations and assurances of confidentiality. Interviews were to be made public either at the time of the interviewee's death or at some time in the future specified by an individual agreement. Unfortunately, it appears that the interview's ease were not made aware of the fact that confidentiality was limited to the extent of American law. A commission had been in place for several years to investigate several murders in Ireland dating back to 1972. Given the public revelation of new evidence in the case, the Ireland authorities requested access to the collection. Given the act upon this request, a subpoena was duly served to the library in 2011. Boston College initially resisted the subpoena in court, but eventually some rendered the oral histories when they lost their case in federal court. The takeaway from this case, which sent a chill throughout the entire community, was that access restrictions and a deed of gift were not sufficient to withstand a court subpoena. In other words, there is no such thing as archival privilege. This ruling may very well mean that participants will feel less likely to take part in such activities if participants cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. It is also likely that there will be an even more chilling effect if archivists and others involved in obtaining historical documentation are perceived as giving legal advice that has no basis in law. The archivist's fundamental responsibility would therefore seem to be to represent the current legal situation to potential donors as the best possible situation rather than engage in speculation about the law that could be easily be seen as self-serving. Potential donors should therefore make informed decisions based on the legal ramifications of their actions and not based on legal speculation. A second case study includes human sexuality, specifically a popular and long-standing class in human biology at Stanford. Professor Haran Kachadorian donated 4,000-plus digital images he made of his lecture slides given over the course of 40 years. Given the subject matter, as well as the fact that many images are copyrighted and from other sources, we're still working out what to do exactly with this collection. Do we need a warning? Do we have to restrict certain lectures, for example, on development and or images of children? Is there a difference between educational use in the classroom versus online exposure? Pardon the pun. Well, we certainly will not provide worldwide access to the collection as a whole, but that is the only answer we have at this point. It certainly seems a waste to require patrons to come all the way to the reading room to use materials, but that may be the only solution. Other institutions, such as the Kinsey Institute or Cornell, which also has a similar human sexuality collection, are in the same boat. Many other institutions have similar content, yet no consensus has emerged thus far in terms of what to do with this type of material. Then again, maybe we're all just being naive. As I have heard, second hand, that there is a nude picture or two on the internet. A third case concerns a Duke University collection of extremist materials donated by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Rather than expose the content online for misuse or exploitation, Duke recently chose not to digitize it. It should be noted to you that these materials are copyrighted, and it's not simply a matter of a version to provide access to materials that can be used to spread hate. This is an interesting case because it stands as a stark contrast to another case where several equally reputable institutions are collaborating on a research project to digitize KKK newspapers from the 1920s and 30s. With the events of the last year, however, many are asking why such a project exists, even despite research interest in the rise of the Klan and several faculty back in the project. In other words, this case reveals a much deeper question we now have to face in the profession beyond simple research value or interest. And instead, what do those actions say about us, our collections, our decisions, our priorities? Many archives and archivists think of themselves as progressive, wanting to capture and preserve voices and collections that have been hitherto neglected or overlooked, engaging in community history projects and other collecting initiatives. As a result, we can't over the impact of our priorities. What we say about us and our mission, particularly to those communities we wish to work with and to expand a diverse, inclusive collection and narrative. These are just a few of the myriad ethical questions we deal with on a day-to-day basis. I'd be happy to explore anything I've discussed thus far later. Thank you.


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We have been talking about various jet engines over the course of many lectures. We have also looked at various thermodynamic aspects which were covered by Professor Pradeep. Now, all the jet engines so far we have been looking at and all the other engines, IC engine that we have looked at earlier where all of them air breathing engines. They were using air available in abundance in the atmosphere as the primary working medium. So, the idea in all those engines was to use air and somehow energize the air and get work out of air. So, air was a working medium and as a result of which all of them were generally clubbed as air breathing engines. Now, we are going to talk about non air breathing engines. The engines that do not use air as a working medium, the engines that have to carry its own fuel and in the process create thrust for flying vehicles. Now, these non air breathing engines are rockets, missiles and of course, the various spacecraft that are being used by various advanced nations for putting craft in space and sending man to moon and even beyond. Now, these crafts are used for various purposes. Rockets is a generic name for all these kinds of crafts. Missiles are used normally for various military purposes and spacecrafts of course, are used for various missions which take man beyond the earth's atmosphere and then on to moon and to Mars and various other missions even beyond in the galaxy or in future probably out of this galaxy. So, obviously a large part of the travel of these crafts would have to be outside the earth's atmosphere even some of the missiles that we have sometimes travel a part of their journey outside the earth's atmosphere. Now, as a result of which it is required that they have engines which do not use air as working medium because if obviously if they are dependent on air they would not be able to perform beyond the earth's atmosphere. Now, some of these fundamental reasons prompted people to develop engines which could be used to take the craft beyond the earth's atmosphere and these are the rockets and various kinds of missiles which we will look at and then finally the spacecrafts. We will look at some of the engines that have been developed over the years some of the rockets and various crafts that have been developed over the years and then we will do the basic rocket science that actually makes these rockets work. We would be able to finally look at various kinds of spacecrafts that are being used nowadays for various kinds of missions. So, let us take a look at some of the rockets that people are using nowadays for various purposes. Now, the rockets started long back the history of development of rocket is indeed rather quite old actually and according to the history rockets were used by the Chinese in 12th century AD for repelling the Mongol attacks from the north. So, Chinese are normally credited with the inventors of the rockets as we know today. In India there is a record that Tipu Sultan used rockets against British army in 18th century AD that is nearly more than 200 years back. The modern rocket science have been developed by a number of people in various countries and some of the people who are known as the pioneers are Konstantin Zyalkovsky of Russia, Hans Obat and Fritz Opel of Germany, Robert Goddard and Werner von Braun of USA. Werner von Braun of course is from Germany and he switched to US after the world war and continued to contribute to the development of rocket science and engineering in US he is credited with the development of Saturn rockets. So, many of these people put together developed what we call rocket science today including the multi stage rockets. Now, multi stage rockets the credit for developing that was actually being given to Konstantin Zyalkovsky of Russia. He developed the basic science based on which today spacecrafts are being launched from all over the world. So, he is credited with the person who first conceived the idea of multi stage rockets which can be used to take the rocket vehicles beyond the not only earth surface, beyond earths gravitational field and beyond to various other places not only moon, but to other planets. So, the whole science of that was developed by Konstantin Zyalkovsky and others of course, have developed various other versions of rockets. Werner von Braun for example, developed the German V2 rocket which were used indeed during the world war. Some of these developments are credited to these people and laying down the basic foundation of rocket science and engineering. Let us take a look at some of the modern rockets. One of the first thing that you need to know is that the operation of rocket is not dependent on atmosphere nor is it guided by the forward speed which is the case of an aircraft. Now, this is an advantage as rocket is the method of propelling vehicles beyond the earths atmosphere. So, the atmosphere would have been an impediment. It would have been a resistance to the craft. So, rocket is designed in a manner that it has least amount of resistance and then it can fly out of the earths atmosphere. Indeed, when you are out in the atmosphere, outside the atmosphere, the shape of the vehicle becomes less and less important. So, the shape that we are familiar with for aircraft is no more necessary for rockets. The disadvantage of course, is that there is no air available anymore. Air was the primary working medium for engines of air breathing engines, which means that you have to carry the fuel and the oxidizer. Now, as we know the fuel and oxidizer both are required for combustion purpose and hence for rockets, you have to carry both of them within the body of the rocket, which means you have to carry the weight of both the fuel and the oxidizer till they are completely used up.  We are familiar with the various kind of heat engines. We have done the thermodynamics of these heat engines. We have done the various cycle analysis. We shall see that rocket engines do not quite conform to those cycles, but it still remains a heat engine, which means fundamentally chemical energy is converted to heat by burning of propellant and oxidizer and that is the fundamental of all heat engines that chemical energy is released by burning into heat and then this heat is converted to useful work. So, that is the fundamental of heat engines. So, in that sense a rocket remains a heat engine and then this high energy burned gas is accelerated through various nozzles. These nozzles have to be shaped properly and we shall be looking into the nozzle science later on also, how these nozzles are created and shaped and if you do that properly, if you create enough energy and if you have a properly shaped nozzle, then the large momentum of the exhaust gas that is created when it comes out of the nozzle body by the reaction force as per Newton's laws of motion creates thrust. So, thrust is created through various physics. First is release of heat. Second is expansion of the gas or acceleration of the gas through a properly designed nozzle and if you do that properly the exhaust gas then gives a reaction and then the Newton's laws of motion apply and you have thrust that is created by this exhaust gas. This thrust is what we use for propelling the rocket first through the atmosphere as it has to be launched from earth surface and then through various other medium rarefied medium outside the atmosphere and then out into the space where there is no atmosphere at all. So, this is the basic mechanism by which a rocket normally works. We will take a look at some of the more famous rockets that have been used in the recent past. Some of the rockets that we can immediately refer to are the very successful Indian rocket program, satellite program which is launched by our ISRO Indian Space Research Organization and they have been building these rockets for quite some time. Some of the rockets that are shown here are called satellite launch vehicles or SLVs. Prior to these they were smaller rockets which were used for various purposes. These are the successful launch vehicles that have been launched in the last many years now. It started with the SLV. These pictures are roughly in proportion to their size. So, you can see that the initial SLV that was used was indeed rather small and then we had augmented SLV and this augmented SLV had as you can see more than one rocket actually. Here there was only one rocket housed within the body of SLV and here you have more than one rocket at least two rockets surrounding the body of the SLV. You could have up to four rockets surrounding the body of the SLV and then we have a polar SLV, polar satellite launch vehicle which takes the craft to the polar altitude and this is much bigger as you can see. It carries at the tip of the rocket what is known as payload which is all the instruments that are used for the craft when it is rotating around the earth. So, all those instruments are housed inside it various communication and other instruments. This is also the PSLV is also the kind of craft we are probably likely to use to begin with for our moon mission. It has as you can see here a number of rockets not only the big rocket inside the main body, but some of the smaller rockets outside the main body which also help in carrying the this big vehicle up in the atmosphere through the atmosphere into the earth's orbit. Now, GSLV or Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle is even bigger and it goes into what is known as Geosynchronous Orbit and this is the kind of rocket which carries again a lot of payload and a modern version of that is GSLV 8 which has gone through 5, 6, 7 and 8 and is being continuously developed for various purposes. These also carry communication satellites which go around the earth's orbit and allow us to stay in communication with each other all the time. So, these are the kind of launch vehicles or what is known as satellite launch vehicles that put satellites on earth's orbit for various purposes, some of which are for communication purposes, some of which are for other social purposes and some of which sometimes may be for some military purposes. So, these are the Indian rockets which have been very successful rockets that have been used over last many years. This is a PSLV which is being launched from the Indian launch base at Sriharikota and you need a huge structure to initially hold the rocket vertically and once the rocket is fired it slowly goes up, when it is going up it is still held firm and then at a certain point of time this fixture is released and the rocket goes up in the atmosphere by virtue of the huge gas that is released and the thrust that is created which is directly vertical and completely lifts the whole rocket body up from the launch base which is a big base created over here. So, the thrust that creates has to completely balance the weight of the entire rocket body and hence it is quite often known as lift-off, it lifts the entire rocket from the launch base up in the atmosphere. This is a proton rocket, a modern rocket used by the Russian for various launching various satellites to the atmosphere. As you can see it has a number of rocket bodies outside the main rocket body and those are the ones that create additional thrusts during especially during lift-off as you can well imagine that the weight of this could be quite heavy and you need maximum thrust during the lift-off. So, maximum thrust creation capability has to be built in and some of these indeed are multi-stage rockets. So, that some of these would actually fall off after the whole rocket has gone to a very very high altitude and then the so called second stage will take over and then after a certain while then the second stage will also fall off and then the third stage will take over and after some time even the third stage would fall off leaving only the payload which is the main satellite to go on to its orbit or go on to its mission. Now, this is a Apollo spacecraft for the moon mission used by USA, it was powered by Saturn rocket. Now, Saturn rocket is something very similar to this proton rocket. So, it would look something very similar and of course very big. This is the craft that would be housed right on top over here. So, what you see on top over here is simply called technically payload. Now, this is the payload and this is what would be carried by this big rocket from the earth surface and once it goes to very very high altitude rest of the stages fall off leaving only this which is also often called the command module from which the a smaller craft would probably land on the moon. So, this is what goes around the earth's orbit or beyond you as you can see there is a small rocket actually fitted behind it. So, during its various motions in the space very much outside the earth's atmosphere if it requires to create some small motions it can create that with the help of these small rockets. So, this is what you have right on top of the big rocket we can see that in our Indian rockets also that it has number of stages. This is the first stage, this is the second stage, this is the third stage sometimes you have four stages this could actually be a fourth stage and then you have the payload on top of it which is the satellite. So, this is called satellite launch vehicle. So, the whole of it is the launch vehicle on tip of it is the satellite which is used for various purposes. So, people have been using these for various purposes US is used to send man to moon, Russians have also done that and they also send various satellites to the orbit for various purposes just like our Indian program. This is the space shuttle Columbia lunch and here you can see that there is a huge big rocket which is the Saturn rocket and on strapped on that is the Columbia which is the reusable launch vehicle. So, rest of the launch vehicle actually is not reusable a typically a rocket once it is launched and it goes up most of it falls off and is not reusable they are completely burnt off and dispensed with. Now, this space shuttle which is strapped on this big Saturn rocket actually goes to space and it comes back and it comes back and lands like an aircraft. So, that is why this is shaped like an aircraft but it cannot take off on its own and go to space. So, it is strapped onto a big Saturn rocket and then once it is high up in the altitude actually somewhat outside the earth's atmosphere the space shuttle gets released from the main rocket body and then it can go around the earth's orbit on its own as I mentioned the shape in that kind of a orbit does not matter it could be shaped like an aircraft or it could be shaped like anything and it would still go around the earth's orbit as there is no air resistance involved. However, when the space shuttle tries to come back to the earth it has to again negotiate the atmosphere. So, it has to come back through the atmosphere into the earth's orbit and there the shape of this space shuttle shaped like an aircraft again is useful because then like an aircraft it can behave like an aircraft it can be controlled like an aircraft and then it can land on a airstrip like an aircraft. So, it actually does so it actually lands on a runway just like an aircraft does after it has gone around the earth in space. So, that is why it is called a space shuttle because it comes back and it is reusable it can be launched again with the help of another rocket. Let us look at various kinds of missiles. Missiles are typically used for various military purposes and hence some of their various configurations may be guarded secret, but we can take a look at all kinds of missiles that are normally used and each of them is designed for the particular purpose. Now, missiles are used for certain targets. So, you have certain target to which the missile is launched and it has to hit that target. Now, it could be an air to air missile which means it is launched from air may be from an aircraft and it is to hit another target which is also in air could be another aircraft. It could be an air to surface missile which means it is launched from an aircraft and it is to hit something on the surface of the earth. It could be anti ballistic missile which means we will see the ballistic missiles and this missile is supposed to go and hit that ballistic missile. So, to counter a ballistic missile and hence it is called anti ballistic missile. So, it has to intercept a missile while that missile is moving on that atmosphere intercept the missile and hit that missile. So, it has a purpose of hitting something on on the move on the motion in the earth's atmosphere. And then we have anti satellite weapon where you can send a missile to hit a satellite which may be going around the earth's surface. So, that is anti satellite missile and then you have anti ship missile which could be launched from air or from surface and it is supposed to hit a ship which is moving on the sea. So, a ship which is mobile and moving on the sea can be hit with this kind of missile. And then we have land attack missile which is of course, ground to ground missile. We have anti tank guided missile which is used for hitting or targeting tanks on the surface of the earth. Tanks as you know are armored bodies and so you need strong missiles to hit them. And then of course, you have surface to air missile which are often used to be called simply anti aircraft missiles where you can send the missiles from earth to aircraft that are moving around which could be considered dangerous. And hence you can send missiles from surface to counter those aircraft and then of course, the surface to surface missile which is the original missile. So, send a missile from one point of earth to another point of earth for some target. And we could have wire guided missile where the guidance system is wired and these are missiles which are used for various kinds of purposes. The purposes normally some will be purpose. Cruise missiles normally have a long cruise flight very much like an aircraft. That means it sort of flies at a constant altitude for a large part of its flight. Most of the missiles actually have parabolic or some arched curved trajectory which actually means that it does not cruise. But this cruise missile is one of a kind which cruises for a long time in its path which could be hundreds of kilometers and then lands at a particular predator mine place at a target. So, that is why they are called cruise missiles. They are designed to cruise at a constant altitude over a long period of its actual flight. Now the ballistic missiles are the aim and should kind of missiles which are used again for various military purposes and the purpose is built into the nomenclature or name of these missiles. They are called tactical ballistic missiles. The short range ballistic missiles, theater ballistic missiles used in specific kind of war situations could be on the top of a mountain or in a very difficult terrain. So, those are called theater ballistic missiles. Then you have the medium range ballistic missiles which can probably go over 100 kilometers or so and then you have intermediate range ballistic missile which go on for may be few hundred kilometers and hit a target and then you have the intercontinental ballistic missiles which are expected to travel over thousands of kilometers to hit from one continent to another. So, it goes from one continent to another hence they are called intercontinental ballistic missiles and these obviously go for a very long distance. Then you have the submarine launch submarines as you know are under the water ships and they can be launched from under the water. So, that you cannot even see when they are being launched and these submarine launched ballistic missiles are the again specially designed to be launched from under the water and then of course, we have the air launched ballistic missiles which are launched from aircraft and have the characteristics of ballistic missile for hitting a target as soon as they are launched. So, these are the various kinds of missiles and as you can see they are named after the particular mission for which they are designed and these are all various kinds of rockets. So, they are all covered by the rocket science that we will be talking about, but each of these rockets is designed for a particular mission. So, the way you design them, the way you design the nozzle, its guidance system everything finally, makes a particular kind of missile and as a result of which they have been given various kinds of nomenclature. This is a old German V 2 missile. The reason you know I am showing this old missile is because most of the other missiles are guarded secrets. Now, they are secret you know technology which are normally not available to the general public and hence we can look at somewhat older missile which were actually used during the world war 2 and as you can see here the missile houses number of components. Right on top you have the unit that is often called payload or in simple term rocket terms we call it payload, but in case of a military application it would be called a warhead and then you have the various control system which controls the craft and finally, the warhead onto the target. So, this is the control or gyro control as it used to be known earlier which guides the warhead or the payload onto the target and then you have various other systems, the radio system so on which are housed over here for it to be communicated with the ground system so that the ground control can be operated to guide the system onto its target. The various other systems are there the rocket body as you can see here houses all the other system you have the liquid oxygen that is stored over here and you have the hydrogen peroxide tank which is stored over here and then you have the nozzle which is at the end through which the high velocity jet finally, comes out and creates the thrust. So, these are the various kind of system that are normally housed inside a typical rocket body in this case a particular missile which have the control system, the navigation system, the fuels and the oxidizers which are stored in tanks as I mentioned they have to be carried within the body and most of the body of a rocket is typically occupied by the fuels and that is the various kinds of oxidizers and the propellants they have to be carried in the tanks and they actually occupy most of the space and then of course, you have the pumps which pumps these fuel into the rocket chamber or the combustion chamber of the rocket engine and then of course, it goes out through the nozzle. So, the rocket chamber is of this size which is much smaller than the body of the main rocket and a nozzle of course, is right at the edge right at the edge of the lower edge of the rocket from which the high velocity gas comes out. So, this is typically a body of a rocket which could be of a missile or any other kind of a craft they all have certain common features and these are the common features of any kind of rocket that you may like to look at. Let us try to take a look at the various fundamental signs that are contributory to the operation of a rocket. Now, if we look at the fundamental physics of what is happening you have a rocket chamber which is often called a combustion chamber in which the combustion is initiated and we shall see what all kinds of combustion is done in a few minutes. What it creates is it creates a combustion a very strong pressure field inside the combustion chamber and then this high pressure gas is released and it continues to create this pressure field before it goes out through the nozzle and when it goes out of course, it creates the thrust. Now, this pressure field as it is seen inside the whole rocket chamber if you consider the nozzle and combustion chamber together they may be called the rocket chamber and this pressure field inside the rocket chamber is acting on the inner surface of the entire rocket chamber. On the outer surface you have external pressure field which may be the earth's atmosphere or it may be no pressure field that means there may not be any atmosphere at all and the differential of the two when integrated actually gives you the net thrust. So, this pressure field differentiated over the entire area would finally, give you the net thrust in this direction that is in the direction which is the axis of the rocket chamber. If you consider this chamber to be an axis metric body the radial components of this pressure field would actually nullify all around that means they counter each other and there is no net component acting in any direction acts as we are looking at a axis metric body and hence the only component that would be active is the horizontal component or the component parallel to the axis of this craft or this rocket chamber and that net component is the thrust. So, this is how one can say that the thrust is created. So, this is one of the methods by which you can use the basic physics to understand how the thrust is created. Let us look at how the basic heat engine is conceived. Now, we have looked at various kinds of jet engines the jet engine cycles you have done and the jet engine cycle works in a cycle it is it comes from atmosphere goes through compression goes through the process of combustion and expansion and finally, gets released into the atmosphere. So, it acts in a cycle in a rocket we do not have earth atmosphere we do not have air which means that the working medium has to start on its own come out through a process of combustion and then come out through a process of expansion and there is no return path there is no cycle. So, at best one can say it works in a half cycle, but we are not using a medium which goes back to its origin. So, it works through a process of combustion which is approximately a constant pressure process and then comes out through a process of expansion. So, even though a jet engine or a rocket which is also a jet engine work as heat engines there is some difference in the way they are fundamentally conceived as working heat engines and this is the fundamental difference that the other air breathing jet engines work in a cycle the rockets do not work in a cycle. Now, a rocket actually fundamentally right from the beginning has two basic kinds of fuel and oxidizer system one in which the fuel and oxidizer both are liquid and hence they need to be separately pumped into the rocket motor or rocket combustion chamber. So, you need a pumping unit for each of them separately to be pumped into the combustion chamber and both of them are liquids. The other variety is where both of them are solid and both of them could be separate bodies of solids or quite often they are mixtures. So, solids are mixtures and this mixtures have been used for many centuries now by the Chinese and our Indians for creating rockets and. So, the early rockets that we know of were all solid rockets what we call today solid propellant rockets and those were the rockets which were used by the Chinese and the Indians and many other people around the earth in the ancient era. In the modern era these solid bodies are designed they are various designer shapes which we shall look at later on in one of the next lectures and we shall see how those shapes actually contribute to the performance of these solid rockets. And in both the cases once the propellant and the oxidizer are burned the mixture of gases that is created is released through other nozzles for thrust creation. The burning process as you are aware the combustion process would have to be done in a chemically correct manner which means the solids or the liquids that is the fuel and oxidizer would have to burn in a proper proportion. If the solids are in a mixture they are to be in a proper proportion this proportion is extremely important and they are determined by various chemical analysis. So, the process of creating this fuel and oxidizer fundamentally comes from various chemical analysis and that chemical analysis gives you the kind of fuel and oxidizer that you should be using. There we shall see that there are various kinds of fuels and oxidizer for rockets. The choice of fuel and oxidizer for rockets is very wide. There are various kinds unlike in an aircraft where you normally have only one kind of fuel. The number of fuels and oxidizers available for rockets are many. We shall have a look at some of the more popular ones in the next lectures. So, this is the way the rocket actually functions. Let us look at a schematic of two fundamental kinds of rockets. One is the liquid, another is a solid propellant rocket. In the liquid you have the fuels in one tank, you have the oxidizer or oxidant in the other tank and they are pumped separately into the combustion chamber. Now, this is the combustion zone in which the combustion is to be carried out which means the fuel is to be pumped. They are to be released into the combustion chamber through injectors and these injectors do a number of jobs that is it admires the fuel. Then the fuel is released, the fuel is vaporized, fuel mixes with the oxidant and then the mixture is burnt that means a flame is created and then this flame releases the energy or the heat energy into this combustion zone. And then the mixture of gases proceeds from the combustion zone where the heating or the combustion process is to be completed at least 98 percent completion and then the mixture moves in the combustion chamber forward towards the nozzle. Even as it is moving forward the combustion process may be completed and so by the time it comes at the beginning of the nozzle the combustion process is said to be completed and now it has very high pressure and very high temperature. This very high pressure temperature gas is now released through the nozzle which is normally convergent divergent nozzle. So, initially you have a convergent nozzle which makes the flow go sonic. So, at the throat of the nozzle the flow is invariably reached sonic velocity which is Mach 1 and then it continues to expand through this nozzle to very high velocity normally high supersonic Mach number with which the gas comes out and helps create thrust. So, this is the mechanism by which the rockets normally create thrust. In case of solid propellants you can have a mixture of oxidizer and fuel and a body of that is created and we shall see the various shapes that are created. The shapes are extremely important and they are housed inside the combustion zone. Now, once they are housed inside the combustion zone a process of combustion may be initiated let us say at this end at the further end of the bodies and once the combustion is created in this isolated combustion zone and the gas is created the process of gasification happens the solids once they burn they form into gas and then this gas travels through this opening between the two sides. So, there may be a circular opening through this and the combustion is continued and then finally it reaches the beginning of the nozzle convergent part of the nozzle. It also goes through a process of choking or going supersonic and then it becomes supersonic and is released at high velocity. So, normally as you can see the solid propellant carries the propellant inside the combustion chamber itself whereas, for liquid propellants the liquids have to be stored separately in other part of the rocket body from which they have to be pumped into the rocket chamber which means that a rocket body will have to be now designed to store the fuel and the oxidizer separately they cannot mix before they are pumped into the combustion zone and then they have to be pumped separately. You may require separate pumping capability depending on the pressure at which they are stored which means a liquid rocket typically would require a lot of space for carrying the fuel, for carrying the oxidant, for housing the pumps and which means that liquid rocket typically has to be quite big for it to be justified that you carry all this with you for creation of thrust. So, typically liquid propellant or liquid propulsion is used only when you need a big rocket typically for satellite launch vehicles for most of the missiles tend to be solid propellant rocket where the solids are housed within the combustion chamber of the rocket. Some of the bigger missiles like intercontinental missiles you could have a combination of liquid and solid which could be multi stage for the first stage could be liquid to carry the total weight of the entire rocket body or the vehicle body and then later on once the first stage is released the next stages could be solid rockets which are little smaller in size and hence they can carry the vehicle much further into the atmosphere or beyond the atmosphere. So, combination of liquid and solid rockets have been also used for various kinds of launch vehicles. Now, let us take a look at various kinds of basic rocket science how the thrust is generated. You see the rocket science is based on simple very simple principle actually you know the Newton's laws of motion you know that if you create a large gas energy that is coming out of a body it will immediately give you a forward motion. It can be done in a very small scale in your laboratory if you open the end of a balloon and release it the balloon will move much like the rocket movement. So, basically release of the gas will always tend to give you a certain amount of motion and then in a typical modern rockets the motion needs to be controlled. So, you have a guided system you have a navigation system. So, all those systems are housed in the body of the rocket. However, the main problem of the rocket is creation of the thrust. So, much of the body of the rocket is actually used in storing the fuels for managing the fuels and then of course, managing the combustion process and then releasing it through the nozzles. So, the basic rocket engine is more about its heat engine and less about the craft which is basically a cylindrical shape body at the tip of which you have a payload which goes out for various motions. So, various purpose of the rocket is served by basic fundamental science. Let us take a look at this fundamental science which governs all kinds of rockets, missiles and various kinds of satellite launch vehicles. Now, if you take a rocket thrust that is to be created, if for example, you have to use a certain amount of mass of the rocket to be used. Now, this mass of the rocket to be used is indeed the fuel. So, the fuel and the oxidant to be used let us say over a period of time and this mass is expended mass of d m is expended in time d t and when it is expended it creates a velocity change d v of the rocket body itself. Then the conservation of momentum gives you the momentum balance that means, the mass with which it started the original mass and the original velocity finally, devolves into the final mass, the final velocity and the mass that is expended that is the fuel that is expelled through the nozzle and the change of velocity that is occurred of the rocket vehicle. So, V e max is the velocity of the exhaust gas which is relative to the rocket body and as a result of which you have the motion of the rocket it is assumed that the nozzle is fully expanded to the atmosphere. So, this is the basic equation of motion of the rocket body itself. Now, if you slightly work on that equation we can write that this equation devolves into a much simpler form which can be differentiated to give you a very simple equation which is m d v d t which is equal to V e max into d m d t. Now, m d v d t is the propulsive force or thrust which is m into acceleration d v d t is of course, the acceleration. So, that gives you the propulsive force or the thrust that you require for this body to be moved and that is the thrust you need to create. Now, d m d t is the mass flux of the fuel and oxidizer together you remember the rocket carries the fuel and oxidizer and there is no air available. So, this is what is coming out of the rocket body and this is the thrust you need to create to move the entire rocket body through the atmosphere or anywhere else. So, this comes out of the basic motion of the rocket body. So, the jet thrust that you need to create can also be written down in terms of the value V e max with which the fuel and oxidizer together are coming out the jet is coming out and this is the mass flux of the fuel and oxidizer together and that gives you the thrust. So, this thrust must be equal to the thrust which is required for the motion of the body and as a result of which you have a properly matched engine and the rocket body. Now, this exhaust velocity which is created and which we call V max at the moment we are assuming that maximum velocity has been created. It is working ideal condition the nozzle is working as an ideal nozzle and then it is expanding into the atmosphere in a complete expansion process and that creates V e max. We shall see later on that rocket does not create V e max all the time. It creates a velocity V e which is not necessarily maximum at all time of its operation. Now, this V e max depends on design of the exhaust nozzle and on the local ambient condition of the flight. So, in a well designed convergent divergent nozzle the exhaust velocity can be calculated and is known for flights within the atmosphere. They can be calculated quite easily reasonably approximately for all engineering approximations and the value of gamma is determined for the mass of the gas with the help of the internal temperature and chemical composition of the exhaust and it is normally much less than the value that is used for ordinary air normally quite less really at high temperature and pressure. Now, these are the equations for which we you can calculate the V e as I said the value of V e can be easily calculated. This is the energy with which the gas is flowing out. This is the temperature of the combustion chamber with which it started and this is the exit temperature. So, this is a simple governing equation of velocity you can write from your fundamental thermodynamics that you have done the isentropic flow that you have done and if you derive this you can convert the temperature ratio to pressure ratio assuming an isentropic process for the time being an ideal process and if you do that through the nozzle and finally, you get the cycle efficiency which is equal to this as you have done in your thermodynamics and for the time being if you assume that the cycle efficiency is 100 percent that is one you get the V e max. So, this is V e max we started by trying to calculate V e and we can get V e max by assuming the cycle efficiency to be 1 or 100 percent and if you do that you get the V e max which is for the limiting case that is in vacuum. So, this is what you get when the rocket actually flies in vacuum that is well outside the earth's orbit outside the earth's atmosphere otherwise in atmosphere you can calculate by the earlier steps that are shown over here and hence you can see that you can now calculate with the help of simple physics the thrust specific fuel consumption or which is also called TSFC which is the propellant consumption really house inside the body and this is simply given by G e G by V exit. Now, this is what is we calculated in the last slide and G of course is gravity. So, you can easily calculate your TSFC once you have calculated the value of V x and the reciprocal of this is called specific impulse which is often a figure of merit or measure of the propulsive efficiency of the rocket engine. You remember this is a propulsive unit and it is an engine and its efficiency needs to be measured and specific impulse is the figure of merit or the measure of the propulsive efficiency and it is simply the reverse or reciprocal of this TSFC and is expressed in this manner and it is often in most literature it is simply called ISP specific impulse. This specific impulse values at sea level and at various altitude are not same as we know the thrust is going to be different and we shall see very soon and you know very well the value of G would vary from earth surface to various high altitude. It is something at earth surface which we use all the time in our physics, but once you go to high altitude the value of G changes and hence you have to use different values and hence the value of specific impulse would vary from earth surface at sea level to various altitudes which the rockets normally would fly and hence these are the various parameters that typically specify a rocket and a rockets operation. The TSFC the specific impulse and the exit velocity we shall continue with this in the next class and we shall introduce a number of other parameters that typify a rocket and its operation and it also quantifies how good the rocket is and what this rocket or what this engine could be used for whether it could be used for a missile, whether it could be used for a satellite or whether it could be used for any other purpose can be actually found out from these parameters which we are talking about and we shall be introduced to number of other parameters pertaining to the basic rocket science in the next lecture.


Hi und herzlich willkommen. Ihr seid hier in einem Vortrag zu einer Open-Source-Software-Planoptikem, die von Christopher in seiner, oh Gott, jetzt habe ich schon wieder vergessen. Dissertation. Danke, Dissertation entwickelt wurde oder mit, wo er sich mit beschäftigt hat. Und er wird uns jetzt ein bisschen was davon erzählen. Und das Schöne daran ist, dass er das explizit auf Anfänger ausgerichtet hat.  Dann viel Erfolg und schönen Applaus für dich. Das sieht nicht anders aus als eine Konventionale Kamera.  Und mit diesem, was wirklich faszinierend ist, ist es möglich. Und das heißt Refocusing. Und ich möchte dir eine Idee geben, was Refocusing bedeutet.  Also, jeder Objekt kann fokussiert werden, von einer einzigen Kaptur.  Und wenn ich starte, um das zu schauen, und wenn ich es hörte, ich war mir, wie es möglich ist. Und ich möchte dir eine Idee geben, wie wir das erreichen können. So, wie ich es sagte, wir brauchen nur einen Image. Und das ist, was so ein Image so aussieht.  Und, wie ihr es sehen könnt, in der großen Portion, in der Mitte, diese sind sehr klein. So, das kann gedacht sein, als der Flieger sichert, dass es sichert. Und wir müssen ein Image-Prozess machen, um das Refocusing zu erreichen.  Aber nicht zufrieden, ich komme nicht zu viel Details her. Btw, hat jemand das Image, das hier blöde ist? Ja, du musst es... Auch wenn es blöde ist... Das ist wirklich gut. Ich glaube, wie viele von euch wissen Doom, btw? Ja, das sagt viel über die Average H in diesem Raum, ich glaube. Ich glaube, es geht um dich, um zu entscheiden, was dieser Age ist. So, zu Beginn, wir haben ein Optical Bench hier, das ist das Red-Line. Und auf diesem Optical Bench haben wir eine Conventional Image-Sensor, die ihr in jeder Kamera findet. Und in der Mitte haben wir diese so-called Micro-Lenses.  Ich habe hier nur sechs von ihnen, aber eigentlich haben wir thousands von ihnen. Und auch einfach ist das Objektiv-Lens, das ihr auch mit oder in jeder Kamera findet. Und mit diesem ist das Optical-Setup komplett. Und wir können starten, um zu schauen. Und ich habe hier einen Yellow-Ray, weil das ist ein ziemlich distinkter Fray.  Und der Chief-Ray fährt durch zwei Optical-Senters.   Und das ist der Center der Micro-Image.  Aber wir haben nicht nur einen Pixel, sondern wir können auch denken, dass ein Ray zu einem Pixel ist. Aber wir haben nicht nur einen Pixel per Micro-Image, wir haben viele von ihnen.  So mit diesem haben wir drei Pixel per Micro-Image. Und in so einem Fall, haben wir völlig den Plan-Optik-Modell, und können starten, um zu sehen, wie es möglich ist, einen Refocus zu machen. Und um euch zu bemerken, was Refocusing bedeutet, habe ich das Doom-Guy in den Fokus hier gebracht. So, starten wir mit diesem Develop-Modell. Wir müssen hier ein paar Definitionen machen. Wie ihr seht, mit der red-Bahn, mit der red-Line hier, haben wir einen Objekt-Plan, und das ist in der rechten Image ein Black- und White-Test-Chart. Und das Black- und White-Test-Chart ist in diesem Fall hier in der Fokus gebracht.  Aber sie werden nicht enden, sie reisen durch die Line und enden auf der Image-Sensor, in der Micro-Image.  Wie machen wir das?       Wie ihr seht, sind diese Figuren hier.   Und ich sehe, dass jede Reise durch verschiedene Micro-Line fährt.    Und finally, we have reconstructed an Image with a focus to the foreground. So, this is basically how refocusing works. And yeah, when I developed that model and explained this to myself and implemented it, I was wondering, is it possible to predict the distance to a refocused object? And it turned out that this is feasible. Again, we have that model. And in order to achieve this, I regard each Reise as a linear function and fit these linear functions into an equation system and solve this equation system in order to get the intersecting position. And once I have that, I can estimate the distance in a metric value with respect to this object. Obviously, what you need to do in advance is know the focal length parameter of your main lens, know the focal length parameter of your micro lens, know the pixel pitch of your image sensor. But if this is all known, then you can estimate the distance of a refocused object. Another capability of this camera is to change the perspective view. And I want to give you an idea what that means. Again, we have our model here. And if I highlight pixels that share the same relative position in each micro image and collect them and rearrange them, I have generated a view from a different perspective. And the perspective position is where these blue rays focus. So the perspective position resides on that main lens aperture plane. And you can move along that. And as you can see when I move back and forth, like now the yellow rays are highlighted, if I move back and forth, the objects in the front appear to move. So you can see in this little stereoscopic setup as you can also imitate why closing and opening your eyes you see the same phenomenon. And I can also pick another position. So you can vary this viewpoint along your main lens aperture plane. Algorithmically, this can be thought of as illustrated here. On the left we have the micro image representation with micro images and I highlighted the blue pixels here because they correspond to these blue rays. And if you rearrange them to a new image array as depicted on the right, you would obtain this perspective image view. So this is how it works in principle on a very abstract level. If you want to dive into this and get a more in-depth knowledge, I recommend to read some of these scientific publications and now and finally I would like to come to the most important part of this talk which is the software that I've written that has the implementation of the algorithms I just described. You can find that on GitHub as with this link down here. This is how the user interface looks like. I will give a brief demonstration now. And if you do not call a plan of the camera your own you can also obtain some light field data online. This is free to use and you can use download the software, download the image data and play around with it. And why am I telling you all this? Well, I would like you to join me on my road developing this and collaborate to improve this software. So to give you an idea this is purely written in Python by the way we can also since it takes some time to compute these images one step could be to convert parts of it to C to make it perform faster and better. This is what the interface looks like it is quite lean not too many buttons and I want to use some of the images we captured back then at university which is this image you can see the micro images again this is what the raw image looked like there is a camera by the way that we built ourselves back then because virtual cameras were not available and also we needed to know the focal length and so on and this was not given with a commercial camera this is why we had to take our own components to know what we are using to know the parameters in order to predict distances and so on so now I have pointed to the light field image and what is also necessary is this white image calibration file and this is necessary to calibrate the camera we need to find the centers of each micro image and this is why this has to be provided as well there are some settings here I don't want to go to details here there is a documentation I took some effort to document that so if you are interested you can read through so now while this is processing there is a lot of some time for you to ask me questions if you have some so if you like you can come up with whatever is on your mind how difficult is it to retrofit a normal DSLR with micro lens array why is it even possible or commercially available if I got you right then you are asking about the manufacturing or how difficult it is to manufacture such a camera well there are available micro lens arrays for about $1000 roughly if you just get one or two and I think you don't want to get more than that then it is quite expensive the manufacturing process well depends on your skills but it is not too difficult I have seen a workshop of a colleague who actually did that in front of an audience and built that with a conventional I guess whatever camera that was but a quite conventional camera micro lens was attached and then you attach your objective lens and then you are done the rest is done by the software it is not limited to commercial available cameras or the one that was initially commercially available so you can build your own and use that software because it is not restricted to any type or a specific type of planoptic camera yeah did that answer your question satisfyingly so if we think one step ahead will this technology be applied to video images as well very interesting question we asked ourselves the same thing back then and it would be very convenient because usually at the movie set up you have a one camera and what one person does this person is called the focus puller he pulls the focus of the scene standing next to the cameraman and you could do that usually this person has to do once or twice and this could be done only in one shot and you can postpone that process to the post processing stage so this could be done later on it depends on the create a freedom of the people sitting behind there there was a company also looking into that and trying to introduce the camera to the cinematography market but they didn't make it before they had to close down but yeah it is a very interesting application and if it comes to other applications I think that microscopy could benefit from this because these viewpoints that I've shown you earlier are very close to each other meaning you only get depth from very close objects so you have to be your objects that you capture have to be very small meaning microscopy might be one field or endoscopy or all the medical instruments out there yeah if we are talking about microscopes the usual problem there is to have enough light and in this case I think but that's basically my question that you also reduce the amount of light that's available if you restrict yourself to certain points of the camera because you only need those for that particular focus and you discard the rest so you would need much more light I guess what do you say in fact you the amount of light that is captured is the same however there is another trade off since we collect only one pixel out of each micro image we reduce the overall image sensor resolution so the trade off is rather on the resolution side than on the amount of light side I would say so this is rather the trade off that we are making with this type of camera but in terms of light these images can be quite noisy since you you split up your image point to many pixels like the image point that exists on the micro lens gets spread over many pixels so by this you introduce noise or you have quite noisy images but since you have the information replicated you can also in this integration process you can cancel out parts of the noise quite easily so I would rather think that the image resolution part is much harder for much hard to take trade off for photographers or for any medical applications I have a python question I am seeing it is taking quite a while what technology stack do you use do you use siphon do you use numpy do you use pypy let me just give you I have written the dependencies here I don't use cpyphone right now if there is anyone who is an expert in that who has used that before siphon sorry yeah I am not using it up to now but if you are willing to take part and introduce that feel free currently I am using just a few I try to keep it very yeah to keep it very lean I only use how many of them are 5 libraries here numpy is one of them scipy tiff library and some demo siking libraries in order to use the biopattern image of the lightro camera yeah obviously this is where the image processing takes place alright if there are no more questions anyone want you have one more question are you done with the demo sorry say it again I am done with the demonstration yeah yeah oh yeah true completely forgot about that yeah since I already have shown you some of the images I thought that's not the big magic now okay let's have a look at them so the processing process is done however I guess all the images are there I was thinking maybe they are still exporting so now these are the images as they come out and as you can see this is a slightly different image from that that we saw in the introduction and as you can see refocusing as possible the software are a bunch of viewpoint images and as mentioned earlier they are a bit smaller since I've done some tweak to extend the spatial resolution of the refocused images and as you can see the objects in the front are moving however at the very end of the aperture plane of that mine lens we see that vignetting effect this is a typical vignetting behavior that you also face with conventional cameras so this has to be treated in future and if you are an expert in image processing you are free to join me and rectify this and eliminate this okay thank you very much there is another one as you just showed us this technique allows you to compute different viewpoints from one shot so that should allow you to compute 3D models of the scene view that's absolutely true you can compute depth maps so called depth maps this is also one of the future tasks that are still on my list if you have experience in doing that I'm happy to have you on my side and that would be great to put that also into that software for sure okay, so thank you very much for your interesting talk and I think you will be still happy for others to see you afterwards as well so, thank you yeah, thank you for having me and as said come to me afterwards and let's have a chat have a good day


I'm in the Olympus booth with Ray Ossvedo and I am a very recent Olympus Convert came over from Nikon and I was curious what kind of cool stuff you guys have at the show here today at Photocon LA. Well we have everything on our lineup but we are also showing our two most latest products and one is our Pen F camera, our beautiful range finder design mirrorless camera. Let me stop you real quick because I've always wondered what the difference was between like the OMD series and a pen and I don't know what it actually means to be a pen in Olympus Land. Sure, obviously a lot of similarities but fundamentally the OMD class of camera, the ones that resemble the SLR style. You have a prism or a view finder that is directly in axis with the lens line. A range finder style by history if you will always has the view finder off to the far left and allowing a user to very easily look through the view finder but have a free eye that's able to see the scene and anticipate what's coming in and out of the frame. Now both of these view finders though are looking right at the sensor so you're not getting an off-axis problem right? No, definitely not and it's not like the film range finders that did have that issue if you will. So this is just a personal preference which you would rather use? Yeah, yeah, in different styles. The range finder historically is the street shooter's camera and allowing them to just roam around and very quickly grab shots and be less obvious as to what they're doing. So would you be more likely to use prime lenses with a pen camera? Absolutely, absolutely and we have a number of them, five in our lineup, very fast primes. So yes, in this case I have a 17mm 1.8 lens which is an equivalent 34 so it's the classic view for street shooting. Very very good. It looks a little more retro too, right? Absolutely and that's by design. We had a film camera, 40 or almost 50 years ago now that was called the Pen F and it was a system camera, interchangeable lens camera which shot half-frame film but it looked very very similar to this. Okay cool, so how much does the Pen F run? The Pen F for the body is $1,199 and again you mix and match lenses, lots of deals on lenses as well. Yeah, one of the reasons I did go with Olympus is because there are a lot of options not just from Olympus but also from third parties and other companies we won't mention but it gives you more flexibility. Yeah, Olympus was there at the origin of the mirrorless category of cameras and so we've had a long head start in this category and as you said there are 6C plus lenses out there in the market available for it. Well speaking of lenses you have a giant beast in your hands now, what are you showing us here? Yeah and this round set our lens line up beautifully and this is our fixed focal length 300mm f4 lens. Olympus calls this the highest resolution lens we've ever made and this gives you an equivalent 600mm f4. Holy cow and this thing is, what is that, 10 inches long, 8 inches? That's a great question, I haven't measured it, it's about 11 or so. It's big but it's not big like you'd expect a 600 to be. Exactly, relative to the traditional SLR lenses this is a fraction of the size and weight and cost. Now you've got it hooked up to, is this the OMD E-M5? This is the E-M1 camera and I often have it attached to this because it has the bigger built in grip and it's a manageable package if you will. You've got to let me hold that in my hands for a second, can you trust me, I just want to see what it weighs. Yeah, definitely, definitely. Holy cow, yeah that's not light but dang. The lens itself is 2.7 pounds, the camera is about a pound. I'm going to hand that back before I drop it because I don't want to buy a broken one. But yeah, incredibly fast focusing and sharp lens and it also focuses as close as 45 inches from the front element which is amazing. Wow, for that size of lens. So you'd be picking up the eyeball of the eagle on this one. We could do that, we could do that. Alright, how much did you say this cost? This is right at $2,500. And on an SLR type lens like that what would that cost you? About $12,000. Holy cow, so that makes it sound pretty reasonable. Plus hand holding because with this camera and a couple of others we've got as much as six stops of stabilization available. Wow, well this is really cool, I wish you guys the best of luck and like I said a very happy Olympus camera owner. Well that's great, thank you, we appreciate it. Alright, now I want to give a shout out to Nanda Sims of the Olympus Google Plus community that I'm a member of and hi guys.