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3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect

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Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect

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Post by supercoder »

afhof wrote: post #13
neals wrote: post #3

Kinda reminds of that other visual effect, where they add circles to a photo and give the illusion of the people in the picture being naked. Won't post the link here cause NSFW, but I can imagine it being a related effect: adding visual markers to change perception.

The interesting effect of bubbling is not so much that people appear naked, but that the original picture, containing clothed people (typically bikinis), appear naked.

I've read this sentence 5 times and still have no idea what your argument is.

Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect

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Post by shmerl »

derefr wrote: post #14
shmerl wrote: post #12

Why specifically GIFs? It's a generic animation technique, works with any video format. As was pointed out many times, if you have control over your site, don't use GIFs for video and animation. Use proper video formats (WebM and etc.). It will only save space and loading time and improve quality.

Basically: GIFs autoplay on people's Tumblr dashboards, proper video formats don't, and that's pretty much all people are trying to achieve in the first place. If we just had some sort of file-extension/media-type (.webg, maybe?) that signalled to a browser "I'm a video container, but treat me like a gif, by defaulting to autoplaying, looping, and muting me", we'd replace gifs instantly.

Video tag autoplays on any site where you have control over HTML. For example on Blogger. Can't say anything about Tumblr - never used it.

You don't need any special containers. Just use video tag properly, it covers all that functionality since the beginning:

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTML/Element/video

Something like

Muting can also be simply achieved by making audio empty in the video if you need to.

Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect

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Post by shmerl »

ijk wrote: post #17
derefr wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically: GIFs autoplay on people's Tumblr dashboards, proper video formats don't, and that's pretty much all people are trying to achieve in the first place. If we just had some sort of file-extension/media-type (.webg, maybe?) that signalled to a browser "I'm a video container, but treat me like a gif, by defaulting to autoplaying, looping, and muting me", we'd replace gifs instantly.

It'd also have to be compatible with all browsers (including primitive versions of IE) to cover the other reason people use gifs.

Primitive versions of IEs can be ignored. Worrying about support for old IE is counterproductive.

Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect

#24

Post by gatehouse »

supercoder wrote: post #21
afhof wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The interesting effect of bubbling is not so much that people appear naked, but that the original picture, containing clothed people (typically bikinis), appear naked.

I've read this sentence 5 times and still have no idea what your argument is.

There are lots of pictures of naked people online. Millions probably. A visual effect that makes it look like someone is naked isn't that impressive, because there are naked people all over the place. The nudity aspect isn't the most precise description of what makes the bubbles effect interesting, it is the undressing aspect that makes it a interesting psychological/visual effect.

Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect

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Post by seszett »

derefr wrote: post #14
shmerl wrote: post #12

Why specifically GIFs? It's a generic animation technique, works with any video format. As was pointed out many times, if you have control over your site, don't use GIFs for video and animation. Use proper video formats (WebM and etc.). It will only save space and loading time and improve quality.

Basically: GIFs autoplay on people's Tumblr dashboards, proper video formats don't, and that's pretty much all people are trying to achieve in the first place. If we just had some sort of file-extension/media-type (.webg, maybe?) that signalled to a browser "I'm a video container, but treat me like a gif, by defaulting to autoplaying, looping, and muting me", we'd replace gifs instantly.

I don't think the current popularity of GIF compared to HTML5 is really because of autoplay (since can do that too, and loop too).

The big advantage of GIF is that it works in an tag just like any other image, so you don't need a website to explicitly support it.

Another advantage, I think, is that GIFs are guaranteed not to play sound, which is great when browsing say imgur.com or pr0gramm.com at work (edit: of well, I had missed the "muting me" part of your comment, so let's just say that we agree that it's an important component).

Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect

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Post by [deleted] »

gatehouse wrote: post #5
tekacs wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In case anyone has trouble searching for this, the term you're looking for is 'bubbling'. Parent poster has already warned you that this could presumably be considered NSFW somewhere (apparently)

Yeah, I'd consider it Not-Safe-For-Work (nudity). Since you've been warned thrice here is a link: http://i.imgur.com/OeSyGw5.jpg

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Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect

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Post by shmerl »

seszett wrote: post #25
derefr wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically: GIFs autoplay on people's Tumblr dashboards, proper video formats don't, and that's pretty much all people are trying to achieve in the first place. If we just had some sort of file-extension/media-type (.webg, maybe?) that signalled to a browser "I'm a video container, but treat me like a gif, by defaulting to autoplaying, looping, and muting me", we'd replace gifs instantly.

I don't think the current popularity of GIF compared to HTML5 is really because of autoplay (since can do that too, and loop too). The big advantage of GIF is that it works in an tag just like any other image, so you don't need a website to explicitly support it. Another advantage, I think, is that GIFs are guaranteed not to play sound, which is great when browsing say imgur.com or pr0gramm.com at work (edit: of well…

Video can be muted with the tag itself. The only advantage of GIF is like you said - you can use it in any place where images are supported (forums and etc.) and video is not. On the sites where you have control over the tags GIFs are counterproductive. For example they are way bigger for the same length of video.

Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect

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Post by kingkawn »

kingkawn wrote: post #29
s-macke wrote: post #28

http://www.well.com/user/jimg/stereo/stereo_list.html Other idea, but gives similar 3d effects

i think that using stereoscopic video footage run frame by frame back and forth from one lens to the other would be an interesting experiment

also using 60 fps footage to do it so that it was essentially watching to 30 fps pieces at once
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