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Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan

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Re: Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan

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Post by Tepix »

colanderman wrote: post #17

I've always wanted to do this, neat. I bet you could regularize the horizontal dimension by scaling each pixel's width proportional to velocity (say via an interpolated GPS tracklog). As-is everything is either oddly compressed or stretched, depending on how fast the train was moving at the time.

That's exactly what I was thinking. If you leave a GPS logger running and make sure the time inside the camera is accurate, you could fix the scaling to match the train's speed and make it look a lot better.

Or, even cooler, change the framerate of the camera during the trip in real-time with the GPS speed as input. :-)

Re: Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan

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Post by dalke »

threeio wrote: post #8
pavel_lishin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think most people would want to download 200 gig of video just to get a glimpse of this.

why not? I've got a spare monitor to run as a realtime Trans-Siberian window view ;)

I'm a bit surprised there isn't already a video of the entire journey.

For example, there's a 5+ day long video of the entire Hurigruten route along the coast of Norway at http://nrk.no/hurtigruten/?lang=en .

Re: Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan

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Post by chrisacree »

threeio wrote: post #8
pavel_lishin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think most people would want to download 200 gig of video just to get a glimpse of this.

why not? I've got a spare monitor to run as a realtime Trans-Siberian window view ;)

I'm in the neighborhood and have been thinking about making the trip.

If anyone wants to fund a ticket and a camera (GoPro?) I'll make a video.

Re: Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan

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Post by pavel_lishin »

chrisacree wrote: post #25
threeio wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why not? I've got a spare monitor to run as a realtime Trans-Siberian window view ;)

I'm in the neighborhood and have been thinking about making the trip. If anyone wants to fund a ticket and a camera (GoPro?) I'll make a video.

Based on some incredibly cursory pre-coffee googling, it would be about $1200 for the ticket (assuming you want a decent private-ish berth), probably around $500 for a GoPro and various equipment (a way to mount it on the window, spare batteries, chargers, memory, etc.) and somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 for the flight back (I wouldn't want to subject you to eight hours on an S7 flight.)

$2500 is a pretty reasonable goal to throw up on a crowdfunding website.

Re: Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan

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Post by chrisacree »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #26
chrisacree wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the neighborhood and have been thinking about making the trip. If anyone wants to fund a ticket and a camera (GoPro?) I'll make a video.

Based on some incredibly cursory pre-coffee googling, it would be about $1200 for the ticket (assuming you want a decent private-ish berth), probably around $500 for a GoPro and various equipment (a way to mount it on the window, spare batteries, chargers, memory, etc.) and somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 for the flight back (I wouldn't want to subject you to eight hours on an S7 flight.) $2500 is a pretty reas…

Good idea! I've never run a crowdfunded project, but this seems like a good use-case.

I just created a Kickstarter, let's see what happens once it's approved.

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