Introduction of the pathfinder

Did you ever wonder how ants find their way back to the ant hill? WebCam Laboratory provides the opportunity to follow nature’s travelers and discover their paths in an unprecedented manner.

As movements are in most cases periodic, it is difficult to draw conclusions with regards to movement habits of our surroundings. Pathfinder monitors and records movements of the specified area. The more movement there is, the more defined the path will be. If monitored for a sufficient timeframe, a rendered map of movement will evolve on our screen, later available for a great variety of interesting analysis. We may monitor the orderly, but invisible paths of ants, the unsettled and almost completely unpredictable movement of single-celled creatures, the seemingly random movement of particles suspended in a fluid (Brownian motion), and even the nature of a current or a vortex.