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Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by vanderZwan »

doctorwho wrote: post #45

Very cool! I wrote code to do this back in 1995 for a company called 3DCOM. We supported full color, full page prints from a sequence of 24 images, each from a slightly different angle to produce a 3D "holographic" printout. the effect was so good you could stick your finger into the image. At the time (the dark ages of commodity printer technology) it required an EPSON inkjet that could do at least 1200dpi. After pr…

Twenty years from that to this? That's a pretty long time without anyone doing anything with this technology then (this doesn't sound much more advanced than what you did back then, except for the addition of internet and gifs).

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I think it's neat this service finally exists!

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by doctorwho »

shashashasha wrote: post #50
doctorwho wrote: post #45

Very cool! I wrote code to do this back in 1995 for a company called 3DCOM. We supported full color, full page prints from a sequence of 24 images, each from a slightly different angle to produce a 3D "holographic" printout. the effect was so good you could stick your finger into the image. At the time (the dark ages of commodity printer technology) it required an EPSON inkjet that could do at least 1200dpi. After pr…

That's amazing! That's why we're honestly so excited about using lenticular type technologies with gifs — they both feel like dumb, old technologies that are actually kind of wonderfully straightforward, and have a lot of creative potential! If you have any photos of that buckyball print we'd love to see it!

I'll dig it out of its box and take a snapshot, or a little video :)

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by doctorwho »

vanderZwan wrote: post #51
doctorwho wrote: post #45

Very cool! I wrote code to do this back in 1995 for a company called 3DCOM. We supported full color, full page prints from a sequence of 24 images, each from a slightly different angle to produce a 3D "holographic" printout. the effect was so good you could stick your finger into the image. At the time (the dark ages of commodity printer technology) it required an EPSON inkjet that could do at least 1200dpi. After pr…

Twenty years from that to this? That's a pretty long time without anyone doing anything with this technology then (this doesn't sound much more advanced than what you did back then, except for the addition of internet and gifs). EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I think it's neat this service finally exists!

3DCOM was going with a service model as well but the internets were pretty new to most people back then. They also got a write up in the Pipeline section of PCMagazine (new technologies section) back when suck things mattered. I think I saved a copy of that too. Time to go digging through the ancient technology box!

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

#54

Post by shashashasha »

vanderZwan wrote: post #51
doctorwho wrote: post #45

Very cool! I wrote code to do this back in 1995 for a company called 3DCOM. We supported full color, full page prints from a sequence of 24 images, each from a slightly different angle to produce a 3D "holographic" printout. the effect was so good you could stick your finger into the image. At the time (the dark ages of commodity printer technology) it required an EPSON inkjet that could do at least 1200dpi. After pr…

Twenty years from that to this? That's a pretty long time without anyone doing anything with this technology then (this doesn't sound much more advanced than what you did back then, except for the addition of internet and gifs). EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I think it's neat this service finally exists!

It's just the 20-year-cycle of nostalgia ;)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/04/17/_the_golden_f...

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

#55

Post by shashashasha »

melvinmt wrote: post #44
shashashasha wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great feedback! We've been so rushed to get it out the door for the holidays that we're lacking some basic information up front. We'll get that up shortly! For now, some price/sizing deets: $12 each — 2.125" x 3.375" — Business Card $12 each — 2.75" x 2.75" — Small Square $15 each — 3.5" x 5.0" — Postcard $15 each — 5.0" x 5.0" — Large Square

What's the delivery time? I would love to print a couple of these for christmas.

We're currently doing rolling shipping starting next week, and it should only take us a few days from you placing your order to us shipping things out!

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

#56

Post by BSeward »

shashashasha wrote: post #30
BSeward wrote: post #24

This is super cool. I've looked a little at lenticular printing for 3D prints but sourcing the lenses was a little more effort than I needed. I'd pay well over material cost to have someone else handle assembling. If you add an option meant for that I'd be all over it.

Thanks! What do you mean about adding an option for 3D prints? Do you mean doing the layering on our end? We could get you viewing angles and such so that you could upload prelayered imagery through the website normally, would that work?

Layering on your end, yeah.

Per pages like http://www.microlens.com/pages/choosing_right_lens.htm different applications prefer different viewing angles.

If you can track down ideal lenses and give tips for capturing ideal photos that'd be awesome.

http://poppy3d.com/ is cute product shipping soon: they might be interested in partnering (they've had ~2900 backers on Kickstarter)

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by duiker101 »

shashashasha wrote: post #46
duiker101 wrote: post #41

is that my hackertyper that I see there? :D

YES OH MY GOD! We tried to reference a lot of our favorite memes and things in the video. Glad you caught it!

I love the fact that people still use it ^^ Thanks for that you really made my day!

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by scoofy »

biot wrote: post #23

I know this ship has sailed, but the G in GIF is pronounced like in "gin", not like in "gig".

As a student of philosophy of language I love/hate this debate. I'll say this, I feel badly for people who think the creator gets to control the pronunciation. Hopefully the prescriptivists will learn language evolves irregardless of whether we want it to. Whenever you think you have firm rules, you will find they will change momentarily. Let me know if you spot what I snuck in there.

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by shashashasha »

scoofy wrote: post #59
biot wrote: post #23

I know this ship has sailed, but the G in GIF is pronounced like in "gin", not like in "gig".

As a student of philosophy of language I love/hate this debate. I'll say this, I feel badly for people who think the creator gets to control the pronunciation. Hopefully the prescriptivists will learn language evolves irregardless of whether we want it to. Whenever you think you have firm rules, you will find they will change momentarily. Let me know if you spot what I snuck in there.

We were just talking about this yesterday with some friends, and they put it nicely as "Language has no master"
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