This Cymascope Image Shows What Dolphins See When Using Echolocation Zachary Stieber - Epoch Times
go to original December 8, 2015

Scientists have captured a picture that they say shows how dolphins see the world around them using echolocation.

Jack Kassewitz, the founder of the research organization Speak Dolphin, says he came up with the process to replicate echolocation.

“When a dolphin scans an object with its high-frequency sound beam, each short click captures a still image, similar to a camera taking photographs,” Kassewitz explained in a statement.

Echolocation is when dolphins produce short broad-spectrum burst-pulses, which sound like clicks, which are channeled at certain places. The sound waves that are then reflected from objects of interest provide information to the creatures.

John Stuart Reid invented CymaScope, a patented imaging process that imprints sonic vibrations on the surface of water. Kassewitz worked with Reid and the process to get the groundbreaking image.



“Each dolphin click is a pulse of pure sound that becomes modulated by the shape of the object,” Kassewitz said. He then used new technology to transform the 2D image into a 3D image.

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Related: Image Illustrating What Dolphins See Met with Skepticism (Weather.com)

Images: SpeakDolphin.com/Cymascope Laboratory

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