Path traced by the tip of the beetle’s wing is extracted from a high-speed video (IMAGE)

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Path traced by the tip of the beetle’s wing is extracted from a high-speed video

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The path traced by the tip of the beetle’s wing is extracted from a high-speed video, shown here overlaid against a raw image of the beetle in flight. The frequency and amplitude of motion can be extracted by Fourier transform, while the forward velocity is estimated by the mean forward velocity of this wingtip.

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Jaime G. Wong

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