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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.

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lukasz 3 years ago

really like ur door example :)
i need to find "the fourth dimension", got a feeling my local video store won't have it...
mb09 3 years ago

agree
i love your door example too!
but what caused the jumpy lines?
Marginalia Project 3 years ago

This was caused by the memory issue I referred to in the description. My computer wasn't able to render it all nicely when I also used it to record the video produced.

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!
Madis Vasser 3 years ago

The door example was brilliant! I briefly experimented with this a while back using After Effects and also had the same problem with the jumpy lines.

Will be waiting for the source code. :)
Marginalia Project 3 years ago

Great to hear that! For now, tou can find the source code in Processing discourse: processing.org/discourse/yabb_beta/YaBB.cgi?board=Exhibition;action=display;num=1213382538
We're still making some changes in it. But the basis is all there.
Thanks for your comment.
zgg 3 months ago

thanks
Robert Bell 3 years ago

This is spectacular!
Tim Eichmann 3 years ago

Unbelievable cool !!!!!
mn 2008 3 years ago

It's interesting that you are doing it in real time (I've seen something similar in Java.)

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
Marginalia Project 3 years ago

hey, great example.
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.
Casey Pugh 3 years ago

Very cool. I was inspired to do the same thing a while back vimeo.com/438009 (it uses Flash instead of Processing)
Marginalia Project 3 years ago

Looks very nice!
Liked the online experience possibility. Very cool.
Nice to know of it!
Ismael Sobek 3 years ago

Whoah. It's like the camcorder was on acid.

Trippy.
agilbert 3 years ago

The fact that it's real time is the best part. The recording is cool, but I'd love to see a projection of myself with this effect layered on like some fun house mirror.
Miguel Monteagudo 3 years ago

Just incredible!! This work goes far.
jeanpoole 3 years ago

Nice work : ) and noticed your views spike to 47,000 in one day recently, crazy! would've expected far more comments tho... did the video get posted on some big site to drag those people in?

wonder how easily this coul dbe achieved within quartz composer?
Marginalia Project 3 years ago

Yeah, some blogs published a link to this video - sometimes quite out of context, claiming it as a "new video technology", when it's actually quite old. Some people have done it in other environments. I'm not familiar with quartz composer, but it seems that some people have done it in it.
Thanks for the comment.
RDJim 3 years ago

I saw a video on Youtube not long ago where this technique was used using a female model in a bikini walking across the screen and doing various demonstrations. Very neat effect.
Mark L. Feinsod 3 years ago

This is really amazing. How/when can I get the software? Is it available as a Final Cut Pro plug-in, by any chance? I'd love to use it for a music video that I'm working on, if possible.

Please email me at feinsodville@gmail.com if you want to discuss further.
Marginalia Project 3 years ago

Hi, the program code is available at the Processing discourse forum. There's a link in a previous comment. But it works for real-time video only. You could adapt the code to use it in recorded footage or (much more easy) use the Time Displacement plugin in After Effects to reach similar results.
Mark L. Feinsod 3 years ago

Thanks for getting back to me. Using the Time Displacement plug-in in After Effects seems like the way to go. Thanks again!!
Stefan Ringelschwandtner 3 years ago

looks so cool.
Sandra Landeiro 3 years ago

Awesome! ;D
nagash 3 years ago

that's really nice!
parabéns
Karen Abad 3 years ago

wow
40 Watt Films 3 years ago

Loved the way it built up to the door trick.
Sean Mattison 3 years ago

sick
theY4Kman 3 years ago

Nice work, mate. I have to check out the source :)
robertanderson 3 years ago

looks awesome, you can also do this with the time displacement filter in After Effects
Gael Hugo 3 years ago

Hello,
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
Can Basyigit 3 years ago

smooth dancing can be made
or realistic genie in a bottle project =)

good one.
Sieger 3 years ago

I like the effect, but i would consider the word 'research' a bit overdone, since after effects features this effect as well. I myself did some experiments with it and (to be short) )turned it into an object, combined with a slitscan projection:

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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André Mintz 3 years ago

hi, i think you misunderstood this video, or just didn't really read the description. as we mentioned in the first line of it: it's a programming exercise, no more than that. we only said of 'research' when explaining the name we used, which is a quote from a Brazilian researcher of video aesthetics, Arlindo Machado (who doesn't claim to have invented this technique either, to avoid any other misunderstanding).

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.
Josue Ibanez 2 years ago

Remains me a lot to the Khronos Projector: k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/
LePôLe 2 years ago

you're a friend of Alice told me...
Nakho 2 years ago

nobody watch the MUSE video for the song Unintended?
was made in 1998 with a similar technique...very cool.
alex tyson 2 years ago

This is where it's at... innovation! I can't wait to see where you go with this in the future.
Nathan Pierce 2 years ago

The door one is sweeeeet
Wiley Wiggins 2 years ago

Beautiful work!
Pedro Monstrinho 2 years ago

The door is NINJA.
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Robert Lyons 1 year ago

I worked with Zbigniew Rybcynzki on his film "The Fourth Dimension" in 1988. The effect was created on a 35MM Aerial Image augmented Master Series Oxberry Animation Stand Camera. The process took apx. 3 months to generate 30 min of finished effects product. Since that time I have taught some of my animation students how to replicate this Time Dialation Effect or Chronotopic Anamorphosis using After Effects.