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Camera Technique Captures New View of Space & Time

Posted by samzenpus on from the sll-at-one-time dept.

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."

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  1. GIF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What if you could compress a video clip into a single image? "

    you get a GIF.

  2. $85000 camera? by dalias · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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...

    1. Re:$85000 camera? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Looks like the same technique they use to take horse race photo finishes.

    2. Re:$85000 camera? by grumbel · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Hundred? Try two:

      mplayer -vo jpeg -vf "crop=$WIDTH:$HEIGHT:$X:$Y" -ss "$STARTPOS" -endpos "$DURATION" "$VIDEOFILE"
      montage -geometry "${WIDTH}x${HEIGHT}" -tile x1 *.jpg "$OUTFILE"

      Set WIDTH to 1 and HEIGHT to the size of the video file. (Warning: will spam the current directory with a whole bunch of jpegs).

  3. Not New by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    They have been doing this for years... Go look at the "photo finish" of any horse race to see the same effect.

    1. Re:Not New by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2

      Even worse, it shows that many people aren't actually exposed to x-t diagrams in high school physics, otherwise they wouldn't be able to come up with the silly idea that they actually invented something new.

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  4. Slit Scan Photography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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/

  5. Photo Finish by Lev13than · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  6. Old News from 1992 or earlier by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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."

  7. does anyone else think... by roc97007 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...that some of the images look like an updated game of Frogger?

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  8. Not new at all by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 2

    This isn't new. And it's also not as interesting as this.

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  9. This might not be new! by dohzer · · Score: 3

    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.