Big Cat caught on Video by PC

[BigglesPiP]

An experiment to increase the capacity of USB storage through the use of advanced photography post processing techniques.

Based on multiple demonstrations of Skyfall's cat expansion law, I will attempt to increase the capacity of a Flash Storage Device with Universal Serial Bus interface.

Apperatus:
-1GB Crucial Gizmo USB stick, which has been through the washer and tumble dryer without loosing data.
-Twenty pence in cash.
-Blue CD/DVD Marker.
-Red CD/DVD Marker.
-Canon S5 IS (not pictured).

Method
The Red CD/DVD marker is placed exactly 20 pence away from the Blue CD/DVD Marker, and maintained at this distance, parallel to the Red CD/DVD Marker.

The USB storage subsystem is balanced, on end, slightly beyond the further of the 2 CD/DVD Markers.

In order that this is a fair test, a 1st baseline, or control, photograph is taken at a high angle, the size of this photograph is taken to be precisely 1GB (roughly 980GiB).

A second photograph is then taken at a low angle, this will - in theory - increase the size of the USB storage subsystem.

Results
The 2 photographs are compared below, the one on the left after the expansion process.



Discussion
As you can see, the capacity of the USB stick has been increased by roughly 20%, making this a 1.2GB USB storage subsystem.

I theorise that this process could be repeated multiple times, further increasing the capacity of the drive and/or cat.

Conclusion
Comparing photos taken from different angles totally doesn't work, regardless of whether you match the gauge of the track or the width of a single rail.

To properly use this technique, you need to use 3 points of reference, so that the rails are the same width, and the gauge is the same. The photo will need to be scaled, and distorted from the corners in order to match all 3 datums.

 

[2StepSteve]

It is a normal sized cat carrying a dead crow!

 

[Jono8]

An experiment to increase the capacity of USB storage through the use of advanced photography post processing techniques.

Based on multiple demonstrations of Skyfall's cat expansion law, I will attempt to increase the capacity of a Flash Storage Device with Universal Serial Bus interface.

Apperatus:
-1GB Crucial Gizmo USB stick, which has been through the washer and tumble dryer without loosing data.
-Twenty pence in cash.
-Blue CD/DVD Marker.
-Red CD/DVD Marker.
-Canon S5 IS (not pictured).

Method
The Red CD/DVD marker is placed exactly 20 pence away from the Blue CD/DVD Marker, and maintained at this distance, parallel to the Red CD/DVD Marker.

The USB storage subsystem is balanced, on end, slightly beyond the further of the 2 CD/DVD Markers.

In order that this is a fair test, a 1st baseline, or control, photograph is taken at a high angle, the size of this photograph is taken to be precisely 1GB (roughly 980GiB).

A second photograph is then taken at a low angle, this will - in theory - increase the size of the USB storage subsystem.

Results
The 2 photographs are compared below, the one on the left after the expansion process.



Discussion
As you can see, the capacity of the USB stick has been increased by roughly 20%, making this a 1.2GB USB storage subsystem.

I theorise that this process could be repeated multiple times, further increasing the capacity of the drive and/or cat.

Conclusion
Comparing photos taken from different angles totally doesn't work, regardless of whether you match the gauge of the track or the width of a single rail.

To properly use this technique, you need to use 3 points of reference, so that the rails are the same width, and the gauge is the same. The photo will need to be scaled, and distorted from the corners in order to match all 3 datums.

I am glad you did that because i couldnt be bothered to explain it to them.

 

["andy"]

If you look at all the pictures of normal sized cats in this thread you will see they are only about the length of the gap between two sleepers.

Now watch that video again, especially when its walking along the track. The cat in the video is as long as at least 3-4 sleepers

no. look at acidhells last pic and it is size of one gap between sleepers. that is the best angle your going to get too because its balanced on the rail

all the people posting cats next to rails is pointless. a cat sat next to a rail is never going to look as big as one 'on its tip toes' balancing along a rail

 

[BigglesPiP]

It is a normal sized cat carrying a dead crow!

It's a big cat carrying a dead cow!

 

[ShaolinDreams]

its a crow carrying a normal sized cat

 

[V4NT0M]

An experiment to increase the capacity of USB storage through the use of advanced photography post processing techniques.

I'm a little confused lol, I'm not sure if you're trying to disprove the image I posted where I said it didn't prove anything or whether you're proving my "cat expansion law".

 

[JBuk]

USB cat?

 

[BigglesPiP]

CAT 5E!!

 

[Jono8]

no. look at acidhells last pic and it is size of one gap between sleepers. that is the best angle your going to get too because its balanced on the rail

all the people posting cats next to rails is pointless. a cat sat next to a rail is never going to look as big as one 'on its tip toes' balancing along a rail

It is clearly not

 

[Shador]

The movement of the tail alone suggests its a big cat...maybe a hybrid but it's certainly a big cat to hold and move its tail in such a way.

 

[Tefal]

iwth the gauge of the track b eing a weird angle and so very hard to judge how wide it is compared to the cat and it's angle why not just use the hight of the rail when it's standing on top of it to compare with?

 

[wormwood]

It's a black dog, the snaking of the tail is an optical illusion caused by the shaking of the camera and the wagging of the tail. The clumsy gait of the animal is also not graceful enough to be that of a cat or a big cat. Also the way the tail is upright suggest a dog too. I don't think it ever stands on the actual rail either, it runs off along the far side of it.

 

[Glaucus]

iwth the gauge of the track b eing a weird angle and so very hard to judge how wide it is compared to the cat and it's angle why not just use the hight of the rail when it's standing on top of it to compare with?

That's far to sensible and people don't wont to think their eyes can be mislead.

As I posted earlier this is a much better picture as it's walking on the rail head and as such much easier to gauge.

and it certainly does not look like a big cat there.

 

[matt_fsr]

I'm going with Black labrador on this one.... just a black lab that's had some ballet lessons!

 

[aardvark]

That's far to sensible and people don't wont to think their eyes can be mislead.

As I posted earlier this is a much better picture as it's walking on the rail head and as such much easier to gauge.

and it certainly does not look like a big cat there.

this is a better picture to judge size as the cat is at the same angle as the rail - clearly a normal cat.

 

[Jono8]

That's far to sensible and people don't wont to think their eyes can be mislead.

As I posted earlier this is a much better picture as it's walking on the rail head and as such much easier to gauge.

and it certainly does not look like a big cat there.

It is still clearly 3 sleepers + in length in that picture

normal cat = the gap between two sleepers

 

[Glaucus]

If that was a big cat it would be much bigger. It's not even remotely half the size of the mile marker and the mile marker is further away making it look smaller.

And no a normal cat is not the gap between the sleeper.
and how do you get 3 sleepers.

 

[Glaucus]

doh double post

 

[Jono8]

If that was a big cat it would be much bigger. It's not even remotely half the size of the mile marker and the mile marker is further away making it look smaller.

And no a normal cat is not the gap between the sleeper.

find me a picture that says otherwise then