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I'm intrigued by slitscan photography and other visual/temporal shenanigans. I'm especially interested in some of the 'video slicing' techniques I have seen and wanted to try it out for myself. Never could find any suitable software - so I gave up looking and wrote my own tool using Processing. :)

This video is a compilation of my initial experiments, using my own nature videos as source files. Love the abstract, moving shapes and colors - especially the way the ocean waves are transformed, yet still recognizable.

Each frame of the video is a horizontal stack of a 1 pixel, vertical slices of a video image. The left of the frame is the beginning of the video clip, the right side is the end. The animation effect is created by moving the location of the vertical slice from the left of the original video frame to the right. In effect, swapping time and space. :)

The music is by a group called Rare Silk who created some amazing jazz-fusion vocals in the 80s.
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  • Lara 2 months ago
    This stuff is amazing, and yes,... the sea is the best O_o
    At first it looks like a bunch of regular shore waves,... then you notice how... they roll in the weirdest ways possible!
    Some other things were harder to make out, but nice too see!
    I've added this great piece to the Psychedelic Soda channel
  • Don Whitaker 2 months ago
    It would be fun to make a collection of clips and have people guess what was on the original video. :) Thanks for adding to Psychedelic Soda.
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  • Erick C. 2 months ago
    runs a little long but very pretty images. :)
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  • Mark O'Connell 2 months ago
    Love it! Some great stuff.
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  • julaps 2 months ago
    wow, you've created some really beautiful forms... especially like the one you chose for the video thumbnail. the great thing about slit-scanning is that you get a such a variety of results depending on the source material.
  • Don Whitaker 2 months ago
    Yes, it's hard to tell what will come out the other side when choosing videos to process. Some that I thought would be boring, like grass blowing in the wind, produce surprisingly beautiful shapes.
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  • Don Whitaker 2 months ago
    Thanks for the positive feedback everyone. :)
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  • Julian Oliver 2 months ago
    this is very good work. you ought to submit it to video art festivals and the like.

    cheers,
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  • The Fibro Twins 2 months ago
    i dig it
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  • Ammonite 2 months ago
    Wow, truly amazing the waves are eerie. The clouds at 3:50 looks as though you are flying around them. Don't really understand the process but wondered would it be possible to drive the effect using the rhythm of the music. Nice job, love to see more (in Hd if possible.)
  • Don Whitaker 2 months ago
    Def. more possibilities for exploring this technique. at this point I dont think I could figure out how to make it react in real time, tho. As it stands now each frame at this low resolution takes about 30 seconds to render.
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  • Gabriel Naranjo 2 months ago
    I love the results and have always wanted to learn how to program in processing. I would love to see this in high definition, or at least less compressed
  • Don Whitaker 2 months ago
    This was my first try at a processing script. The learning curve is not so bad if you have even a smattering of previous coding experience. I'm certainly no code-wizard. I'm a bit shy in showing my code since it is prolly so bad ;) But I will add a few comments and make it available for others who would like to experiment.

    Unfortunately this is at the full rendered resolution. The script is slow and really bogs down with higher rez scripts. Now that I have the hang of it I will def try some higher quality renders, tho.
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  • Videopia 2 months ago
    Wow! I was just trying this two nights ago - and gave up! Incredibly tedious work masking and shifting lines of video manually by hand. Nicely done!
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  • Joey Carr 2 months ago
    The poster frame reminds me of the Hiroshige print of the crashing wave. Very cool.
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  • GammaBlog 2 months ago
    That must be what the hydrogen seas of Jupiter look like. Beautiful work.
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  • freakyfana 2 months ago
    Freaking COOL! =DD
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  • Gabriel Naranjo 2 months ago
    Hey Joey: I'm also fond of that particular japanese print, I've got to reproduceit by chance in one of my pictures ;)

    flickr.com/photos/ganar/2462469731/in/set-72157600955553269/

  • Don Whitaker 2 months ago
    whoa, that is so neat! Love finding similar, natural shapes like that. Great shot. :)
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  • Gabriel Naranjo 2 months ago
    Thanks Don! That's one of my best series. I used to work in post production and am looking at vimeo as a way to publish some of my experiments on motion.

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  • nicolas horne 2 months ago
    your concept is a real mindswapper! i hope you'll post the code soon. no need to be shy!
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  • Don Whitaker 2 months ago
    Thanks for the reminder, nicolas.

    Here is the source code, along with a sample Quicktime movie so that you can get a feel for how the thing works.

    shiny-life.com/dl/VideoSlice_Release1.zip

    and a copy of just the sketch file for those that don't want the video:

    shiny-life.com/dl/VideoSlice_Release1.pde

    Have fun experimenting. If anyone knows of a way to speed up the rendering, I'd love to hear about it. :)
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  • psonice 1 month ago
    Guess I should mention that this inspired me to write my own version :)

    vimeo.com/user669952/videos

    I'm using demo captures (from demoscene stuff) as the source video there. It's made in quartz composer, hardware accelerated, but still incredibly slow (typically less than 1fps for a 640x480 render).
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  • staffan 1 month ago
    this is very neat and thanks for sharing the source!
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  • camil tulcan 9 days ago
    this is fantastic, ...playing with time
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