
Chronotopic Anamorphosis
1 year ago
This video shows the test of a software developed as a programming exercise.
The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distorsion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or, as Brazilian researcher Arlindo Machado calls it: chronotopic anamorphosis.
The effect was completely based on Zbigniew Rybczynski's "The Fourth Dimension", but transposed to Processing programming environment and performed in real-time.
The software still has some memory issues, specially when the image rendering is combined with video recording, as it can be seen in this video.
This experiment was made within the context of Marginalia Project. More information about it, as well as the source code of this software [soon], can be found at marginalia-project.blogspot.com.
The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distorsion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or, as Brazilian researcher Arlindo Machado calls it: chronotopic anamorphosis.
The effect was completely based on Zbigniew Rybczynski's "The Fourth Dimension", but transposed to Processing programming environment and performed in real-time.
The software still has some memory issues, specially when the image rendering is combined with video recording, as it can be seen in this video.
This experiment was made within the context of Marginalia Project. More information about it, as well as the source code of this software [soon], can be found at marginalia-project.blogspot.com.
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i need to find "the fourth dimension", got a feeling my local video store won't have it...
i love your door example too!
but what caused the jumpy lines?
But I figure it was caused by poor programming, actually, as well as little knowledge on Processing, so far. We're working on it.
Thanks for your comment!
Will be waiting for the source code. :)
We're still making some changes in it. But the basis is all there.
Thanks for your comment.
This effect has been an After Effects plug-in for at least 10 years (time displacement.) The tutorial even uses a similar setup (a door opening.) A nice use of it can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=I2MsDogV4g4
I wasn't aware of this plug-in. Looks very nice! Like the walking example.
Anyhow, just made ir for the fun. It's very nice to know of these other experiments.
Liked the online experience possibility. Very cool.
Nice to know of it!
Trippy.
wonder how easily this coul dbe achieved within quartz composer?
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Please email me at feinsodville@gmail.com if you want to discuss further.
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I've done exactly the same prototype in ActionScript 2 (flash). Realy easy to do and applicable on a website with the flash plugin.
Same final tuning to do with memory.
vimeo.com/1916311
or realistic genie in a bottle project =)
good one.
siedui.nl/projects/2007_videois3d/2007_afstudeerproject.html
Its a 3dimensional representation of the first 8 seconds of '2001: a space odyssey' by Stanley Kubrick (also known as 'the largest cut in film history')
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however, i'd still say we're researching something, eventhough we hadn't said it before, 'cause, to me, it is still a personal research and, though after effects has this filter built-in, it doesn't do it in real-time, as we did - and that was the challenge of this EXERCISE.
that said, i liked your piece too, but would have liked it more if i came to know it in politer ways. i was just having fun doing this video, there was no need to brag about anything.
was made in 1998 with a similar technique...very cool.