If I'm not mistaken this blog is from a person I had the pleasure of working with in undergrad for a course project. They were brilliant then and are still now.
If I remember correctly you carried that project!
Help I accidentally a wigglegram
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#122none of those accidental wigglegrams actually work in the sense of looking convincingly 3d though, unlike the more deliberately created examples that introduced the idea.
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#123This is what happens when you let the frontend team name things
Meanwhile non-frontend folks decide to call one thing "threads" and another thing "strings" and have them be completely unrelated to each other.
Yet thread and string really are different things.
Is there an App that explores the smeared line between meanings?
Show me pictures of (rope, thread,string,twine,line, cable, wire, fiber, ribbon, braid) and let me pick the right word.
We sometimes discern fine differences between similar things, but might find it difficult to describe exactly what those differences are. I've recently been trying to work out what a modern hatchback is.
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#124The 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 unfortunate reality of accidents, lack of intention~ I've been taking pictures to be more effective wigglegrams now that I know I can auto-GIF them. I'll do a followup post at some point. The big trick is that they look better when the subject stays in the center of the frame, with the camera "orbiting" it to create a sort of parallax effect.
Yes that helps a lot, perhaps because it is more natural and familiar movement. The unpredictable wiggling might be tricking my brain into thinking I’m bouncing all over.
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#125Does 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.
Perhaps you mean stereographs, if so they work because you get a separate photo for each eye up close, with a seperator, with or without lenses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy
https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/caring-for-our-collections/stereo...
https://news.library.mcgill.ca/double-takes-a-brief-history-...
https://restoreoldphotosnow.com/what-are-stereographs/
https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/earlyphotoformats/ste...
Another method would be anaglyph, red-cyan or amber-blue dubois requiring similarly coloured glasses. https://adcnj3d.wordpress.com/the-science-of-anaglyph-3d/
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#126That frog with a joint is a turtle with a joint FYI.
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#127Re: Help I accidentally a wigglegram
#128Found a guy on instagram who builds a custom stereoscopic camera with 4 identical pi cams spaced evenly (about 1 inch (2.54cm)) away from each other on a line. It creates wigglegrams https://k4mera.world/
Cool concept, but implementation is bad. The exposures vary so much between the separate shots it's giving a stroboscopic effect. Hopefully they fix it in later revisions.
I think that's part of the charm.
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#129Re: Help I accidentally a wigglegram
#130There are many ways of making wigglegrams. The first method is to capture multiple horizontally displaced shots together at once. There were cameras designed for this in the 80s that had 4 lenses, with the widest about eye width apart; the intent was for them to be printed as lenticular 3d images. The second is to have a single shot and then synthetically create additional perspective, such as by using a depth map. I…
OP’s wigglegrams are fun but a bit jarring; your “at the concert” is much smoother. I wonder how we could bridge that gap. My first thought was to use video stabilization algorithms. I suspect they would either fail do to insufficient frames or remove the interesting movement entirely.