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Growing bacteria with population size analysis (Matplotlib/MoviePy)
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| This script produces a video analysis proving for the first time in history | |
| that bacterial populations grow exponentially. See the result here: | |
| http://i.imgur.com/uoITKiA.gif | |
| We proceed as follows: | |
| - Download a video of bacteria growing under a microscope. | |
| - Cut the video to keep only the first 7 seconds. | |
| - Threshold each frame to find where the bacteria are, and compute the |