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Subject: Stinkhorn - species unknown

Methods: The sequence of 319 images were collected at 10 or 20 min intervals with a Canon PowerShot A510 digital camera. The images were complied into a QuickTime movie using ImageJ, a public domain Java image processing program. The movie is presented at roughly 7 fps. The smell was funky, and the compilation is tragic.
Download: << Fungi.mov - 3.5 MB >>
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Subject: Oxalis - two nights

Methods: The image sequence was collected with a Canon PowerShot A510 digital camera. The images were complied into a QuickTime movie using ImageJ, a public domain Java image processing program. The movie is presented at roughly 29 fps.
Download: << oxalis.mov - 3.5 MB >>
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Subject: Little palm-looking plant - species unknown

Methods: The image sequence was collected with a Canon PowerShot A510 digital camera. The images were complied into a QuickTime movie using ImageJ, a public domain Java image processing program. The movie is presented at roughly 29 fps.
Download: << Fungi.mov - 4.0 MB >>
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Subject: Flowering Lobivia tiegeliana

Methods: The sequence of 284 images were collected at 10 min intervals over a 48 hour period with a Canon PowerShot A510 digital camera. The images were complied into a QuickTime movie using ImageJ, a public domain Java image processing program. The movie is presented at roughly 14 fps.
Download: << cactus_small.mov - Low resolution (1.1 MB) >>
<< cactus.mov - High resolution (2.8 MB) >>
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Subject: Creeping Dioscorea bulbifera - common name Air Potato

Methods: The sequence of 276 images were collected at 8-10 min intervals over a 38 hour. The movie is presented at roughly 30 fps.
Download: <<air_potato.mov (868 KB) >>
<< air_potato_high.mov (1.9 MB) >>
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Subject: Ice melting from a moss-covered rock

Methods: The sequence of 362 images were collected at 30 sec intervals over a 3 hour period. The movie is presented at roughly 30 fps.
Download: << High Resolution - ice_moss.mov (4.8 MB) >>
<< Low Resolution - Ice_moss_half (1.6 MB) >>
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Subject: Prayer Plant (Maranta leuconeura), native to Brazil.

Background: The Prayer Plant is shown here exhibiting nyctitropism, a light-dependent change in leaf postion. The leaf postion is relaxed following an osmotic evacuation of water from motor cells at the base of the leaf stalk, and a subsequent loss of turgor pressure.

Methods:The sequence of 60 images were collected over a 10 hour period. The movie is presented at roughly 30 frames/second.
Download: << Prayer_small.mov - Low resolution (2.2 MB) >>
<< Prayer.mov - High resolution (4.2 MB) >>
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