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Camera Technique Captures New View of Space & Time
kkleiner writes "What if you could compress a video clip into a single image? That's what Jay Mark Johnson, an artist and visual effects director, has accomplished through the use of a special camera technique. He calls the images 'photographic timelines,' and his collected works offer quite a shift to conventional perception. Slices of photos are strung together in progression to make a single composite image of a sliver of space spread over an extended period of time."
"What if you could compress a video clip into a single image? "
you get a GIF.
Pretty sad that it took an $85000 camera to do the same thing you could do with any video camera and a few hundred lines of code...
They have been doing this for years... Go look at the "photo finish" of any horse race to see the same effect.
I believe we've called this "slit-scan" photography and it's been in use for just about as long as there have been cameras. In fact, this can be seen as an undesired effect called "rolling shutter" in CMOS cameras, just taken to an extreme.
Anyone interested in this topic should really check out the work done by Amnon Owed and Processing (processing.org):
http://amnonp5.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/eternalism-the-art-of-slitscanning/
She's split into pieces because she was in different places at different times when the vertical line was being sampled. Sometimes she was moving through that slit, and sometimes she was not.
In other words, he's using a slit camera to make photo finish images (but with the subject something other than finish lines). Technology is being repurposed for a potentially interesting effect, but not technically revolutionary.
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http://cs.iupui.edu/~jzheng////RP/index.html
"A route panorama captures and displays miles of scenes along a route optimized to use as little data as possible. It captures scenes with a slit in the frame of a camera moving along a certain route. This presentation details new techniques which do not require image stitching and thus simplifies the input process."
The only way I can look at these is to think, "what moves is what matters", and "what matters most gets squished". There's some aesthetic amusement when I don't think about it too. The chopped up dancer is... well... interesting. I'm not ready to order framed prints though. It might be interesting to play with the "what matters" and "what matters most gets... " parameters. Oh, and the first one is confusing until you realize it's not a short movie taken at one time. It had to be at least two short movies, because of the way the shadows are.... right?
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
What if you could compress a video clip into a single image? - Animated Gif.
Hell, there's even an app for that on the new iphone. All it takes is a simple video camera and a few lines (not even hundreds) of code (pull the middle five columns out of a video stream and put them next to each other in a bigger image. Rotate the camera at some rate. Or move the object past the camera. Streak cameras move the film to do the same thing with a fixed camera position.)
http://www.flong.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slit-scan_photography
http://seriss.com/people/erco/2001/
To me, the images seem more like abstract art (which I generally don't connect with) than a revolutionary camera technique.
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I don't see why this can't be done by post-processing a video (as long as the camera doesn't move, pan or zoom). It's unique that it can be done with a specialized camera, but I don't think that is necessary.
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David Hockney has been making art by slicing together stills to create the impression of a motion event for years. And frankly, his results are a lot more "artistic" that this mechanised and rather dull-lloking technique.
This painting, and the photo/video by which it was inspired, were my first thoughts as well.
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This isn't new. And it's also not as interesting as this.
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That's different, as that's just overlapping all the frames. The fun part with slitscan is that you only expose a single vertical line and don't overlap anything. That way the x-axis ends up capturing time, not space, which leads to quite a few interesting and unintuitive results.
Why is this article tagged as science? An attempt at shoehorning general relativity is made in the article. Other than that, it is not news worthy under the umbrella of science.
This. I had this down pat with my Kodak Brownie 110 in 1982! Fuck's sake...!
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A few years back I was in the Sistine chapel (I'm an art-lover: so shoot me). There's some stuff on the wall that tells bible stories in art. Example (I'm making this up, as I can't remember but do remember the technique) Moses on the mountain, getting the commandments from the man upstairs. Moses coming down the mountain, seeing the wild party, Moses smashing the tablets... each vignette has Moses in in at a different time in the story, but in the same painting. He's dressed identically, surrounded by the same people. He might be on the road, top right, then on the same road, middle centre.
So yeah, done before - in the renaissance.
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Hey guys, I think this technique may already exist.
I'm just going by the fact that fifteen other people have independently pointed out the same thing.