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Help I accidentally a wigglegram

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scottshambaugh2 hours ago

I’ll shill a library I wrote to make wigglegrams & stereograms in matplotlib - I think pseudo-3D visualization is super underrated as a technique to understand data! mpl_stereo: https://github.com/scottshambaugh/mpl_stereo

rendaw4 hours ago

Somehow the extra motion seems to reduce the illusion of depth, it just seems like a disjointed animation to me.

MrGilbert35 minutes ago

I agree. The first three from reddit work really well for me. I assume it's because of the fixed horizontal movement, and the fact that they are captured at the same moment from different angles. :)

The others are nice (but hectic) animations to me.

ZiiS2 hours ago

Intresting, I have a weak eye so rely less on stereo; these pop as much more 3d then a photo.

pjerem50 minutes ago

Same. I have amblyopia and I'm really appreciating the effect. I think people's brain with "only one" eye rely a lot more onto perceptive and parallax effect for 3D perception.

jannyfer4 hours ago

That was fun, and the script on github looks hand-written which is refreshing after having been reading AI-written code for months.

I have 120k photos in iCloud that I'm sure have duplicates (I exported my library to Google Photos years ago and exported it back to iCloud). The iOS duplicate detection stopped flagging duplicates for me to merge a while back. I gotta do something like this script...

gedeon27 minutes ago

That link should have an epilepsy warning.

mncharity5 hours ago

Includes repo for finding pictures taken from slightly different perspectives in a photo archive, and making wigglegrams from them.

shermantanktop3 hours ago

I often take a very short video, under 5s, rather than a picture. Even 1-2 seconds captures dimension and sound in a different way than a still picture. I’ve had people say it’s strange but they work well for me.

pjerem41 minutes ago

Live photos on iOS are exactly that, by default, each time you take a picture, it embeds the 3 seconds before the shot and the 3 seconds after the shot as video with sound.

It looks like a useless feature on the moment because what you want is the nice framing you are trying to capture, but it happens to become an incredible feature years later when a long press on your photo makes your then baby smile and laugh.

It's a best of both world implementation because unlike just capturing a video, you still get your high quality, stabilized and sharp picture of the picture you capture PLUS the video.

exitb2 hours ago

Not that strange I guess, given how iOS does that automatically for all taken pictures.

swiftcoder1 hour ago

If you have an iPhone, it does this automatically (provided you don't disable Live Photos). Quite fun to review all the random stereoscopy you have inadvertently created by having an unsteady grip on the camera...

computerfriend3 hours ago

The website is really nicely designed, and the dithering on the images is quite beautiful.

drsopp2 hours ago
domstatecraft2 hours ago

The same effect is used in a Dan Deacon video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idteXQcGKlg

isoprophlex2 hours ago

Haha that's excellent. Super fitting effect to go with his music

xnx5 hours ago

Good idea, but the discovered image sequences are very different from the deliberately created examples at the top of the page.

wlkr3 hours ago

I had a look at the top submissions on the /r/wigglegrams subreddit [0]. It seems that some (including some of those featured in the article) are the more prototypical stereoscopic wigglegram, whereas others are more a stylistic effect.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/wigglegrams/top/?screen_view_count=...

wartywhoa232 hours ago

Doubles as a motion sickness test :)

nixosbestos3 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)

PetitPrince17 minutes 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

jcattle1 hour 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.

progbits3 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.

zimpenfish49 minutes 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.)

voidUpdate2 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

patates3 hours ago

I assume more than a single camera or a moving camera with a very high shutter speed with fixed focus.

zombot4 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.

patates3 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_pl3 hours ago

I am diagnosed with ADHD and the amount of jumping movement in these is torturous.

AgentMasterRace3 hours ago

It did nothing for me

asadm5 hours ago

really cool. I imagine this will land as a filter on insta soon :D

Barbing5 hours ago

Awesome

fatih-erikli-cg2 hours ago

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dominojab27 minutes ago

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