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Posted by gregsadetsky 2 days ago

Help I accidentally a wigglegram(lmao.center)
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nixosbestos 19 hours ago|
How is the first one done? It seems like the cartons would fall faster than you could manually capture 2-3 images?

(super cool all around, thanks for sharing)

jcattle 17 hours ago||
It's tech from the 80s. Look up the Nishika N8000 and Nimslo 3D.

Basically it's multiple lenses next to each other, each capturing a small slice on the 35mm film. Every lens has it's own shutter, which is triggered at exactly the same time.

This wasn't too involved and quite cheap to implement with analog tech in the 80s/90s, but if you want to do the same thing with digital there's quite a bit more to consider. Here's a cool video of someone building a digital stereo camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aofxbH0elo

The hard part with digital boils down to: Cheap camera modules are hard to calibrate to the same parameters and sometimes impossible to set focus, so pictures look the same. And taking pictures takes quite a bit of processing power, so if you want to take 4 pictures at once it gets a bit tricky with just a cheap raspberry or similar.

whywhywhywhy 13 hours ago||
There is also the Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D which is a 2 lens digital version of the idea. But yeah I do think the analogue grain is doing some heavy lifting on the aesthetic side of the Nishika/Nimslo images.
progbits 19 hours ago|||
https://github.com/jyjblrd/wigglegramLens

This is one option, trading ease of use and low cost for lower picture quality and less light.

zimpenfish 17 hours ago||
Ah, might have to try that. I've been getting adverts for "proper" versions of these (eg the Dispo Parallax) but no-one seems to sells them in a M4/3 mount (and I'm not keen on using adapters.)
PetitPrince 16 hours ago|||
To add to the other comments if you have the idea to use multiple camera to make the same effect but at a higher quality (and if you somehow sort how the synchronisation problem), then congrats ! You have invented bullet time, as demonstrated 27 years ago* in the Matrix.

*ouch, I feel old

zimpenfish 14 hours ago|||
Well, pedantically, demonstrated 148 years ago by Muybridge[0]

[0] "In 1878–1879, Muybridge made dozens of studies of foreshortenings of horses and athletes with five cameras capturing the same moment from different positions." via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time

PetitPrince 13 hours ago||
My pedant self stands corrected. I wonder if some crazy people made a reverse praxinoscope now.
RobotToaster 14 hours ago||||
>if you somehow sort how the synchronisation problem

These days you can just capture video and make a 4d Gaussian splat

PetitPrince 13 hours ago||
My constraint was a tongue-and-cheek "use as little technology as possible" (like what was available in 1999). I think nowaydays it's still more economical to do one pass of photogrammetry on your talent then do a mocap and actor replacement ?
ChrisMarshallNY 15 hours ago|||
> ouch, I feel old

Inside of every old man, is a young man, going ”What the hell just happened?”.

voidUpdate 18 hours ago|||
I believe there have been camera specifically designed for this, where they have multiple horizontally spaced lenses that all take a picture at the same time, or literally just holding several cameras right next to each other and triggering them all at once
patates 19 hours ago||
I assume more than a single camera or a moving camera with a very high shutter speed with fixed focus.
asadm 21 hours ago||
really cool. I imagine this will land as a filter on insta soon :D
dark-star 16 hours ago||
I think the title is missing a verb ...
nnevatie 16 hours ago||
It's a meme.
andrewshadura 14 hours ago||
I think I accidentally a verb.
Barbing 21 hours ago||
Awesome
fatih-erikli-cg 18 hours ago||
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walkjoy8 15 hours ago||
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huflungdung 13 hours ago||
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dominojab 16 hours ago||
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zombot 20 hours ago|
I imagine those to be like crack cocaine for people with ADHD, but I just feel like I'm being zapped watching them.
patates 19 hours ago||
I have ADHD and normally excessive movement on my monitor disturbs me, but this didn't bring even a little discomfort. I didn't get addicted to them as well.
ikari_pl 19 hours ago|||
I am diagnosed with ADHD and the amount of jumping movement in these is torturous.
AgentMasterRace 19 hours ago||
It did nothing for me