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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is that possible when google says it is 26% smaller?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Depending on the content of the image, the compression ratio can vary a lot. The 26% figure is probably for "normal" photos. My images are mostly a few shades of black with a few white pixels (using a camera as a radiation detector) and I guess WebP is way better at compressing that than PNG.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

using a camera as a radiation detector

So… detected any yet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yep! Here's a few hours of combined exposure of the radiation from an americium source from a smoke detector.
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you'd upload this image with no description I'd be sure it's a photo of stars in the sky lol

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

using a camera as a radiation detector

I need to hear more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wanted to see if I could detect the radiation from a small sample of americium-241 that I pulled out of a smoke detector, so I put a Pi camera with no lens facing it and took exposures for a couple hours. After combining them and removing dead pixels I ended up with tons of tiny white specks where radiation had hit the camera sensor. I linked the final image below, and here's a timelapse video (compositing newer frames onto older frames to keep the radiation specks). video