When watching the video below you might find yourself wondering if Salvador Dali used a time machine to get one of these cameras, took it back and then used it as the source of some of his work.
The above video is a simulation of slit scan photography, cinematography that is time-based rather than space-based. Depending on the approach, generally static backgrounds remain intact while objects and subjects that move become distorted as their existence over multiple points in time is shown in a single image. Another version of this approach called slit-tear visualization enables a similar function by drawing slits on footage and once again seeing multiple events in a single frame. The fact that we can recreate such effects is a pretty good argument against using drugs, but that’ not my main reason for posting this. I really like the idea of taking technology and then using it in a completely unexpected way. It makes me wonder what else this type of thinking might yield. What if music was space-based instead of time-based? In fact I am exploring that possibility in a project I hope to be working on next semester.
Below is a video explaining the slit-tear method mentioned above:
Another reason for sharing this is that I am using this technique for part of my video project.
Eric Chamberlain 