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Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

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Re: Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

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Post by jonty »

If you want to play around with slit scanning, I made this little toy a number of years ago and frequently find myself using it on trains:

https://slitscan.space

Press and hold your phone screen to switch between the front/back cameras, or hit "c" on a computer. Tapping the screen saves the image, as does "s".

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Post by otherayden »

awwaiid wrote: post #5

I love this sort of project and write-up. Inspiring to try something a bit different and dance on that line between practicality and artwork. The in-progress "scans" are themselves an interesting stretching of time and space, even if they aren't what the artist is ultimately going for.

Same here. I'm especially a big fan of the "using x as y" format (using youtube as a mountable file system, using my wii to host a web server, etc). I feel like they're a lot less common on here these days than a year or 2 ago

edit: I made this site to only show non-ai related posts like this one https://www.unslop.news/

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Post by toomuchtodo »

a1o wrote: post #10
mhb wrote: post #2

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126919

I am curious, is it the same person? Also, I think at some point someone shared some Japanese website where someone did these high quality photos of Japanese trains with a similar technique?

Same person. This is the blog post, the other thread is the CCC talk.

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Post by strohwueste »

Great writeup! Planned doing the same thing Herr in germany. Thought a Smartphone camera would be enough but there no way to access the camera2 api for those highspeed recordings. I took 1h long 240hz 4k vertikal videos (out of the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal) which could be displayed by MacOS preview. Right no im waiting for a good gaussian splatting tool to create the driving of the "Train” in Blender. The newest Lingbot-map is unfurtunatly not really trained for sideway movement. I always asked myself if the sideway movement and the Parallaxe would make way easier to infer the distance and the 3d scanning capabilities because the pixel only really move one as long you dont drive turns

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Post by decae »

I've posted this here before but I have been creating animations using a similar process with a regular camera and manually splicing the frames together. [1,2,3] The effect is quite interesting in how it forces focus on the subject reducing the background into an abstract pattern. Each 'line' is around 15px wide. I think I went through exactly the same thought process as the author, funny how ideas can come up independently like this.

[1] https://youtube.com/shorts/VQuI1wW8hAw [2] https://youtube.com/shorts/vE6kLolf57w [3] https://youtube.com/shorts/QxvFyasQYAY

I also shot a timelapse of the Tokyo skyline at sunset and applied a similar process [4], then motion tracked it so that time is traveling across the frame from left to right[5]. Each line here is 4 pixels wide and the original animation is in 8k.

[4] https://youtu.be/wTma28gwSk0 [5] https://youtu.be/v5HLX5wFEGk

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