Does anyone have the originals to compare?
3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
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Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
TIL There is a subreddit for this. http://www.reddit.com/r/bubbling .
Well, that's a pretty weird subreddit. Lots of people on there trying to get their "friends" bubbled, probably without most of these "friends" being any the wiser...
There are a lot of pretty weird subreddits when you get right down to it.
Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#53Showing the same gifs without those white solid lines for comparison would have been better. Anyways cool stuff :).
yeah this is something I want to see. i would think that the blur that goes on on the background part of the images plays some part in the 3D effect. would like to see how it plays out without the white lines.
I just tried the blur effect, but it is too much manual work. I spent 20 minutes, and finished a very small part of the gif. I just deleted it. It wasn't getting the 3D feel I wanted. I think having solid bright color instead of a blur, gives it more impact in the outcome.
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#54This was submitted last week, but didn't get many upvotes, so I'm glad to see this submission taking off today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7200147
The following was a really interesting discussion, that I'd love to hear more opinions on:
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pedalpete 8 days ago | link
This is really interesting. I wonder if the lines have to be so solid, or if a similar effect could be accomplished without breaking the image so much.
Would a bunch of almost imperceptible lines work? What about a smallish change in colour saturation or similar? reply
gojomo 8 days ago | link
I was wondering the same thing. Might a finer mesh/grid work? Or bars with some dimensional shading themselves? Or slight transparency?
Could the bars/layer even be animated, along some consistent plane, so that there's no static background part of the scene that's always obscured. (That might allow even thicker bars, if that's otherwise helpful for the plane-of-reference establishing effect, but which aren't as distracting, since the mind's persistence will 'see around' them.)
Combining these, maybe there could be more than one synthetic depth plane active at once, distinguished by color, translucence, or direction-of-motion? There'd be some perceptual dimming with all that layered-in non-native 'depth chrome', a little like looking through lenses or filters... but hey, other stereo 3D tech has similar tradeoffs.
Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#55Unfortunately, I don't perceive the effect (I'm assuming there's supposed to be an optical illusion of 3D). The animations all look flat to me.
Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#56Earlier 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)
TIL There is a subreddit for this. http://www.reddit.com/r/bubbling .
A predict a live Bubbling app coming to Google Glass in 2016.
Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#57One particularly interesting thing about the origin of this effect is that it spawned from the file size limit on .gif files on tumblr. If users wanted to exceed the balance of gif length, frame rate, and detail that they wanted, they would upload multiple sections of the same scene side by side. Tumblr's formatting would then add in the white bars automatically. This presumably gave the inspiration to use this for a 3-D effect.
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#58Earlier 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.
After the bubbling, the people aren't any "more naked" than before. Their clothes are no longer visible, sure, but the people aren't any more exposed.
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#59This affect does not work on me, and, yes, I have two working eyes and neither is "lazy".
Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#60Earlier 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 doesn't autoplay on iOS devices, while GIFs will playback for a few iterations automatically, last I checked.