Triple midair paintball collision in super-slow-mo!

[DocsMachine]

The Slow-Mo guys, a few years back, did a video on two paintballs hitting in midair. This time, they have a faster camera, and tried to get three paintballs to hit in midair. It took some work, and a LOT of tries, but they finally pulled it off!

Some of the slow-mo pics would look pretty cool as backgrounds or wallpapers.

Doc.

[Riot]

18:20… for those of you who don’t hate yourselves.

[JeeperCreeper]

Not all heros wear capes, but some wear cheetah jammies

[Riot]

They’re not Jammies, they’re adult lounge wear!

[DocsMachine]

Why would we hate ourselves? These guys' slow-mo videos are always good. Where else can you watch det-cord and shaped charges go off slow enough to watch- and not die?
Doc.

[acrewofone]

Let's see you wipe that hit!

[BrickHaus]

I watched this in entirety last night. Awesome way to waste 21 minutes.

[lhamilton1807]

There are so many awesome collisions. I’m glad they didn’t just settle for “all three exploded” and followed through. That last one was super satisfying.

[DocsMachine]

I was hoping for a hit where each one hit the other two simultaneously, but yeah, I'll accept their results.

'Course, I also kind of wish they had better guns than those cheap blowbacks, that they'd squeegeed the pink-ball barrel more often, and possibly tried bore-matched barrels- since I'd imagine the three colors were probably different sizes.

How 'bout three good electros, a set of good spoolers, and an electronic control so you can dial in each one's firing time to the microsecond?

Doc.

[lhamilton1807]

Yep, there were a lot of things they did that made this harder to accomplish. Some spoolies would have made a world of difference.

[DieManInTheRough]

5:15 "the paintballs are not good" I felt that.

[cheapguitarscheapthrills]

Balls are touching. According to 4chan rules is this gay?

[Riot]

Honestly, this is the least gay thing about paintball.

[lhamilton1807]

If 4chan is our standard for truth then we’re all lost.

[cheapguitarscheapthrills]

I just came for the lols

[DocsMachine]

Okay dudes, hear me out:

Six balls at once.

We make an aluminum frame, a 3D Octahedron- two four-side triangles, six vertexes. Each side about a meter long, and at each point, a mount for an electro spooler. Maybe some cheap Ions? Each one mounted to an X/Y plate, that can be fine-adjusted with setscrews.

Each gun hooked to an electronic controller, so that each ones' individual timing can be controlled. Just firing, that is, not the cycle timing- though somebody good with electronics could likely do it that way anyway... Give each gun a Freak barrel, and fit the insert closely to the ball- different colors, so likely different sizes.

We'd still need a high-speed camera to get things dialed in, but with a much more rigid mount, micrometer-fine adjustments to the aim, and microsecond control of the individual firing, I'd wager we could get a good, satisfying six way hit without too much fiddling.

So, who wants to start donating? Maybe a Kickstarter? What guns should we use? Ethas?

Doc.