This 17 minutes video shows the complete spinning process from a clean start to a final perfect spider's web. Everything is in real-time, unless when "high speed" is displayed.
This cute little spider, (a harmless Danish type, only 0.5cm) has been living in my lamp for some days now. Almost every evening it spins a new web. Actually a pretty impressive construction and due to the light source it also gets a good catch of flying insects. So, its a clever little fellow.
The construction process is very complex, when starting from scratch, it still keeps the overview and through quick decisions it makes a flawless web. The spider has different types of threads. The initial ones are stronger and used for climbing, while the final last type of thread, used for the circular grid, seems very flexible and sticky.
I was thinking of adding harp music, but it ended up more electronic. The (AdLib) music is from the old PC game Megarace and is composed by Stéphane Picq: Terminal Space, New San, Fractallian space, Maeva, Factory land and Skyholder!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaRace...
Video is recorded with the Nikon d5100 using an anti moire/ anti aliasing filter, to prevent the thin horizontal lines to be affected by strong moire artifacts.