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

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

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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 :)

that would be amazing! we're hi@gifpop.io

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

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Looks fantastic. I noticed that all the lenticulars demonstrated have horizontally aligned lenses for a final image that you rock head to heel. Why not offer a vertically aligned lenses for a final image to that you rock side to side? If I understand correctly, a user should be able to do this themselves if they flip the source image 90 degrees, but an option would be nice. There are some issues with your eyes seeing…

Vertically-aligned is a good way to get 3D out of lenticular prints because each eye sees different images. Unfortunately, this means that things that are supposed to be 2D/animated instead of 3D/still would not look as nice as horizontally-aligned ones.

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

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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.

You snuck in "irregardless" and I claim my $5 reward.

(Maybe you also snuck in "hopefully": http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/hopeful... )

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You snuck in "irregardless" and I claim my $5 reward. (Maybe you also snuck in "hopefully": http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/hopeful... )

Please, I expect better than that from HN!

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

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This is an awesome idea. I would love the option to upload a short video clip instead of a gif though, and have it take 10 evenly spaced frames from the video. My nieces (ages 8 & 10) would love to use this to make prints of themselves in action, but it would be easier for them to be able go straight from a video taken with a phone to a printed product.

Thanks! We currently do support Vine and Instagram video, and you can pick a short clip from there. Processing all videos in all formats is a little tricky right now and it's helpful to have the pre-constraint of those social networks. Taking video from a phone is a great idea though!

Expanding on what doctorwho said:

    ffmpeg -i input.whatever frame-%04d.png
Explode virtually any video format into frames, assuming that you've configured ffmpeg generously at compile time.
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