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Rotating Sandwiches – That's It

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Re: Rotating Sandwiches – That's It

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I'm not sure if this is going to forestall or foment heated discussion about what is or isn't a sandwich, but it's certainly an attempt to codify what constitutes sandwichness: https://cuberule.com/

There’s no such thing as a sandwich (phylogenetically)

Sure there is, you just need to look at the evolution of language, not DNA. The common ancestor is a meal eaten by the Earl of Sandwich in the 1760s, “salt beef between two slices of toasted bread”.

Re: Rotating Sandwiches – That's It

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No.

Oh... then was chatGPT used to come up with the idea? I just don't understand why it would be on the front page without AI??

Nope. A twitter user films her sandwiches rotating and posts them. That’s it, that’s the whole website.

Re: Rotating Sandwiches – That's It

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Fun fact: Some of the sandwiches seem to be rotating in the opposite direction. This is due to an optical illusion called the "Silhouette Illusion" [0], first discovered in 2003. If you focus hard on a sandwich and blur your eyes slightly, you can make it change which direction it rotates. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_dancer

I am assuming you are joking but I see other people responding as if you aren't. This isn't true as the spinning dancer illusion only works on silhouettes and not full color images.

I squinted at the sandwiches trying to reverse their direction like an idiot. Guessing I’m not the only one.

Re: Rotating Sandwiches – That's It

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Agreed. One point of contention I've seen before is the question of whether a piece of fried chicken with breading is a sandwich. Personally I argue that it is not, because the batter is cooked for the first time on the chicken itself. The starchy finger-friendly exterior should be fully edible before the construction of a sandwich. You could argue, however, that a piece of fried chicken with breading is technically…

I mean, it really depends on the breading, though. Panko, for example, could be already cooked before breading the chicken. So, I guess a flour breaded fried chicken could be a ravioli whereas a panko breaded fried chicken could be a sandwich.

I will proclaim that the finger-friendly exterior is important, but the order in which the outside vs. contents are added/cooked/finished/whatever is not.

So well-breaded chicken is. Likewise a two-crusted pie. But a ravioli is not a sandwich.

Re: Rotating Sandwiches – That's It

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Torta Milanesa here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10d92PBihj-yx1D8QPo-Fcp1UrzQ... Folder with all my sandwich gifs here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10d92PBihj-yx1D8QPo-Fcp1UrzQ... Thanks to everyone who said nice things about my sandwiches!

Lauren, as a long-time follower I was excited to see this hit the front page of Hacker News. Since you’re here could you share some technical details about how this works? What kind of hardware/software stack are you using? Are you using NeRFs(?)?

Thanks for asking! I record everything on my iPhone in a lightbox on a rotating jewelry display, then pass the video through Premiere Pro for grading and framing, AfterEffects to rotoscope out the background, and then Photoshop to legacy export as a GIF.

Re: Rotating Sandwiches – That's It

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Fun fact: Some of the sandwiches seem to be rotating in the opposite direction. This is due to an optical illusion called the "Silhouette Illusion" [0], first discovered in 2003. If you focus hard on a sandwich and blur your eyes slightly, you can make it change which direction it rotates. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_dancer

I am assuming you are joking but I see other people responding as if you aren't. This isn't true as the spinning dancer illusion only works on silhouettes and not full color images.

It also works on translucent objects and in a different form on the mask illusion, where a rotation depends on whether you believe the mask is bent away from or toward you.

Basically anytime that depth information is obscured.

Re: Rotating Sandwiches – That's It

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Fun fact: Some of the sandwiches seem to be rotating in the opposite direction. This is due to an optical illusion called the "Silhouette Illusion" [0], first discovered in 2003. If you focus hard on a sandwich and blur your eyes slightly, you can make it change which direction it rotates. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_dancer

I am assuming you are joking but I see other people responding as if you aren't. This isn't true as the spinning dancer illusion only works on silhouettes and not full color images.

The dancer illusion is as though you are observing the dancer from a long distance away through a telescope of some sort where things like her hands do not appear to vary in relative size as she turns and they become nearer/farther from us.

Re: Rotating Sandwiches – That's It

#90
Imagine opening Uber Eats and looking for a restaurant to order from. You are scrolling and they all look the same, but suddenly... What is that? That can't be right, this one has spinning pics of all the food they serve? HECK YEAH I'm ordering from that one
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