By: Bugbread
1) Man, this is cool. Took a while to get my head around, though. 2) Holy shit, Cliffy B made cat-scan.com?!
View ArticleBy: weapons-grade pandemonium
The inevitable pornography will be disturbing Slit Scan is the most perfect thing I can think of. I believe you overlooked "Slit Scan Sluts". The only thing more disturbing would be trying to say that...
View ArticleBy: radwolf76
weapons-grade pandemonium: "You have access to a photocopier, right? OK. Take a photograph of, say Einstein, and put it on the photocopier. When you press the copy button, move the photo on the glass....
View ArticleBy: griphus
Also, assuming there are women in it, titling the film Slit Scan is the most perfect thing I can think of.
View ArticleBy: griphus
The inevitable pornography will be disturbing. Huh, I am thinking about this and you'd probably have to rotate the camera to match the direction of the motion to have it be a workable effect.
View ArticleBy: infinite intimation
woah, the "better light" imager is neat (shooting the waves, intentional misuse). This page sort of helps comprehend what slit scan is all about, but let the "informal catalogue of slit scannerism"...
View ArticleBy: infinite intimation
There are several 'web-apps' that allow your webcam to do this effect right at home. This is one, a cool one, seemingly built by the person behind 'star wars uncut' (I was on another one recently, but...
View ArticleBy: zsazsa
Just recently I discovered/realized that Cat-Scan was made by Cliff Bleszinski. Kind of blew my mind.
View ArticleBy: phl
That's a great explanation, weapons-grade, I never occurred to me that photocopiers produce slit-scan images. Same is true of scanners too, of course. In fact, if the original subject of MeFi's first...
View ArticleBy: postcommunism
I think lifehacker used a terrible image to illustrate the idea. I get intuitively how the vimeo works; I don't get at all how the lifehacker image could have been put together with a stationary camera...
View ArticleBy: weapons-grade pandemonium
Caveat: Your boss will wonder why the volume of photocopies has doubled in a month. Tell her it has something to do with relativity.
View ArticleBy: weapons-grade pandemonium
I understand about taking slit photographs and reassembling them and THAT this will warp time and space. But what continues to be elided in all explanations I've ever found is exactly HOW that occurs....
View ArticleBy: DU
OK, so the explanation in the FPP link is just BS then? The camera views the world through an unmoving vertical slit, taking successive shots over time. The left side of the image here corresponds to...
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