Basically the inverse of https://daniel.lawrence.lu/photos/ or https://trains.jo-m.ch/ ;)
Also reminds me of the work by Adam Magyar, high-speed filming of people as the train arrives:
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
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#22Random thought: If you stick a very small adhesive mirror to the outside window before boarding, then footage "looking down" at the regularly-spaced railroad ties could contribute to information about the current speed and acceleration. Well, on a straight section anyway, if you turn, the inner/outer edges will appear differently-spaced... Wouldn't do anything positive in terms of suspicious staff though. They might…
Why not just use phones GPS?
In a Faraday cage?
Re: Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
#23Basically the inverse of https://daniel.lawrence.lu/photos/ or https://trains.jo-m.ch/ ;)
I've played with panorama mode and tried both of these (1 - panorama of moving train passing platform, 2 - panorama out window of a moving train) ...and both got the same weird artifacts, as it piled "similar" slices together then jumbled up "complex" slices. Too bad they can't have a toggle for time-slice based panorama vs scene-based panorama. or maybe turn on accelerometer optimizations or not.
Free slit scan photograph apps exist
Re: Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
#24Random thought: If you stick a very small adhesive mirror to the outside window before boarding, then footage "looking down" at the regularly-spaced railroad ties could contribute to information about the current speed and acceleration. Well, on a straight section anyway, if you turn, the inner/outer edges will appear differently-spaced... Wouldn't do anything positive in terms of suspicious staff though. They might…
Why not just use phones GPS?
In the presentation they mention they are using GPS, and also an accelerometer.
Re: Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
#25Random thought: if you stick a camera to each train you might know their location better than Deutsche Bahn does.
Since at least you know where it was when you put the camera on it?
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#26When I read the title I thought of another IDEA that I've had bumping around in my head that would be pretty cool. Put down two model railroad straightaways next to each other, with two locomotives, use them as a base to attach a 3d-printer arm across and "print" a model railroad diorama, incrementally moving the locomotives to print each slice. In other words, a flatbed 3d printer where one axis is the locomotives m…
You need a fairly precise movement mechanism for 3D printing.
Good thing we have those!
Re: Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
#27When I read the title I thought of another IDEA that I've had bumping around in my head that would be pretty cool. Put down two model railroad straightaways next to each other, with two locomotives, use them as a base to attach a 3d-printer arm across and "print" a model railroad diorama, incrementally moving the locomotives to print each slice. In other words, a flatbed 3d printer where one axis is the locomotives m…
A big part of the joy of model railroading is the building of such things, at least for some people.¹ It’s less about the product than the process. That’s a big part of why things like kitbashing and scratch building are popular. Finding a way to construct something out of nothing.
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1. Yes, there are people who are more into the operations side of things, but I think for most model railroaders it’s as much about the building as the running.
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#29When I read the title I thought of another IDEA that I've had bumping around in my head that would be pretty cool. Put down two model railroad straightaways next to each other, with two locomotives, use them as a base to attach a 3d-printer arm across and "print" a model railroad diorama, incrementally moving the locomotives to print each slice. In other words, a flatbed 3d printer where one axis is the locomotives m…
A big part of the joy of model railroading is the building of such things, at least for some people.¹ It’s less about the product than the process. That’s a big part of why things like kitbashing and scratch building are popular. Finding a way to construct something out of nothing. ⸻ 1. Yes, there are people who are more into the operations side of things, but I think for most model railroaders it’s as much about the…
You could take this as far as you want.
Like you could put down the foundation of everything, then manually add the grass or the buildings or pour epoxy water.
or you could print the roadbeds and the buildings and just paint everything yourself.
I wonder if you could create those "standard sized diorama" things that people take to railroad conventions that people hook together with their neighbors who also have standardized layouts.