Our new publication “Real-time camera experiments with phyphox” has been published in the IOP Journal “Physics Education”.
In this paper we present our new video features. Most smartphone experiments come in one of two ways: either by collecting live sensor data or by analyzing video recordings afterward. Our new feature now brings these two approaches together by enabling real-time experiments directly through the phone’s camera.
Users can simply point their camera at an experiment, select a region of the image, and instantly track properties such as brightness, relative luminance, or color values based on the HSV color model (hue, saturation, and value). With frame rates reaching up to 240 frames per second, you can capture fast processes with impressive temporal precision.
Because the camera data feeds directly into phyphox’s flexible analysis tools, users can create and customize a wide range of experiment configurations. This opens up new possibilities for measurements over large distances, improved data analysis in existing classic experiments, and highly accurate timing applications — all using nothing more than a smartphone camera.
