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Re: Help I accidentally a wigglegram

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post #93

The first ones shown are quite neat and pleasant. The "accidental" ones pretty quickly gave me motion sickness as I scrolled through them. They also weren't nearly as interesting, though I couldn't look at them for very long.

The intentional ones tend to move along a horizontal plane, and in fairly uniform (or specifically-graded) steps.

The unintentional ones deviate on both bases, creating a more chaotic result.

("Creating chaos" being an interesting notion itself....)

Re: Help I accidentally a wigglegram

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post #93

The first ones shown are quite neat and pleasant. The "accidental" ones pretty quickly gave me motion sickness as I scrolled through them. They also weren't nearly as interesting, though I couldn't look at them for very long.

Yeah, I'm not prone to motion sickness, but that wigglegram with the iPad gave it to me instantly.

Re: Help I accidentally a wigglegram

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post #91

Whew... the continuous motion started triggering migraine symptoms until I closed the window. But it does have a nice 3d effect. For me, the cycle speed seems excessive. I believe someone suggested tying wiggle effect to mouse movement?

I still feel a bit dizzy a minute after closing the page.

Re: Help I accidentally a wigglegram

#104
post #97

Does anyone know what is the technique they use in some of the documentaries where they use really old photos, but they make them look like this wiggle gram? I know it's not AI because the photos can be decades old, but they still do some stuff which that makes them almost see like 3D.

I think that's a more manual process. An older version would involve cutting out the different layers of foreground and background and animating the movement with a bit of fill to add areas where there wasn't information in the original photo. Now I think there are some AI tools that can 'animate' old photos but they look more like movies with the look of the original photo over them vs the thing I think you're referencing.

Re: Help I accidentally a wigglegram

#105

Could these use some frame interpolation and smoothing to make them less jerky? Or would that make them just a video clip then? The first couple of examples were good but later examples were not so impressive. I think the later examples suffered from having too little of perspective change between frames and too much of subject movement -- which defeats the illusion of 3d from a "static" image. Ideal one would have a…

The better wigglegrams were taken at basically the same moment and with cameras set a static distance apart along a single (usually) horizontal line. Those flow a lot more cleanly than the accidental ones where the camera moved an inconsistent amount and not along a single line so they're a lot jumpier and it interrupts the parallax effect that makes wigglegrams work.

Re: Help I accidentally a wigglegram

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post #6

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...

yeah there's something you can still feel in hand-written code - the variable names show how someone was actually thinking about the problem. AI code is grammatically perfect but quite hollow

Re: Help I accidentally a wigglegram

#109

> So I wrote a little script to hash all my pictures: Would be nice to have the script, or at least the choice of perceptual hashing algorithm.

Script is linked at the end:https://github.com/JCLemme/wiggle-wiggle

And the hashing library used: https://pypi.org/project/ImageHash/

Re: Help I accidentally a wigglegram

#110
There's an additional "post processing" step that the article doesn't mention -- which is alignment of the images within the wiggle.

In the example images (which others have noted are stable horizontally) - This alignment gives some control over the parallax and has a very big effect on the quality of the 3D and the ultimate experience of the image.

If you put your mouse, for example, over the marlboro pack that is most directly facing the camera, you'll see it is perfectly stable relative to the screen (despite looking like it's wiggling). In the second image, this point is at the eye of the singer.

On the accidental images, which are also mostly not stable horizontally, this type of alignment can also have a very big impact. An extreme example of how this plays out can be seen in this image - which for example -- locks onto the face

https://strickgifs.tumblr.com/post/48624241536

(NB - like 12 years ago I used to do make a lot of wiggle images -- including spending some time making wigglegrams out of a set of 3D images of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire -- https://thesanfranciscowiggle.com/)

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