Displacement vectors can be used to determine variations in chip segmentation frequencies. Steel workpiece, 250 m/min surface speed. Visible light movie is 60000 frames per second. Field of view is about 1 mm wide. For more information, goto NIST publications "A Novel Peak Detection Algorithm for Use in the Study of Machining Chip Segmentation", "Measurement and Characterization of Dynamics in Machining Chip Segmentation", "Measuring Chip Segmentation by High-Speed Microvideography and Comparison to Finite-Element Modeling Simulations", and "High-Speed Microvideography Observations of the Periodic Catastrophic Shear Event in Cutting AISI 1045 Steel".