Wind tunnel digital imaging

Tests with low resolution CCD camera


in wind tunnel with 1 lamp - raw camera data


close-up (out of focus due to camera setting - contrast quite good though)


overview - slightly better focus -
 

Conclusions

1280x1024 res camera would provide 2x resolution of these. Macro facility on camera must be understood.
Camera quality setting should be max quality - above pics have artefacts from compression (blocking).
 

A few image processing tests

Given that the resolution is low - and the compression blocks this had to be restricted... this just gives a flavour of some visualisation tools which might eventually help you.


contrast stretch


high-pass filtering


false colour - the blue normally seen is not optimal for the eye to see contrast.