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

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This looks fantastic. I make gifs out of pictures I take on burst mode and these would be beyond perfect for presenting them. (try it at a party, it's much more fun than static pictures, also for posed group shots)

I'm waiting for flexible color solar-powered wireless e-ink displays to give the full "Harry Potter" moving-picture effect, but they're a few years out!

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

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No second clause in the "whether"? That's "sneaking out", though. Also, feh, descriptivists...

It's "snuck" rather than "sneaked." Considered incorrect by many for nearly 50 or so years.

Seriously? "Snuck" is incorrect? That's the first time I hear about this.

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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.

I should of known its a loosing battle.

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

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It's "snuck" rather than "sneaked." Considered incorrect by many for nearly 50 or so years.

Seriously? "Snuck" is incorrect? That's the first time I hear about this.

It's not though, that's the entire point. All usages except irregardless, which is well on its way, are considered correct, though not so in the past.

Also, snuck is the last accepted irregular verb, rather than pronoun.

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

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Totally! We just need to do more work on our end to make sure we don't end up accidentally accepting multi-gig video files. Vine and Instagram is a convenient way to start because it's much more constrained :)

client_max_body_size 50M;

Haha awesome. We need to step up our game! We're primarily frontend designer/developers and this is our first node.js project :)

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

#87
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also just found out about http://meshu.io through this- also a great idea!

Thanks! Meshu was our first project together, and we built it on Python/Django. It's been really fun and kind of crazy to have two projects with holiday rushes at the same time :)

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

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$12 for a single business card ? I feel like I would be better served by stapling my existing business card to a $10 bill...

It's definitely pricy if you order one at a time, but if you want a run of business cards costs come down to a couple dollars each. Or you can just staple your existing business card to a $1 bill!

>It's definitely pricy if you order one at a time, but if you want a run of business cards costs come down to a couple dollars each.

I found those prices in the 'how it works' page and nearly closed the tab without a second thought. You might want to give some prices for larger runs, or at the very least say somewhere that volume discounts are available. Now that I know that I wouldn't have to pay thousands of dollars for business cards, I'm more interested.

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

#89

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!

My personal theory is, that it was tumblr's original arbitrary limit of 512KB (now 1MB) that elevated GIF content's artistic quality to new levels.

Before there were all kinds of GIFs, but mainly unedited direct frame sequences out of movie files, yet there was no need to keep the files small. Yet if you wanted to see them in your dashboard stream in their full animated glory, the GIFs had to be kept under that limit at all costs.

Creative workarounds were found (minimizing frames/short loops/masking out static parts of the image) to create outstanding rebloggable content worth sharing.

If tumblr didn't have that limit, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing the current GIF-renaissance, maybe reaction-GIFs, but for sure not stuff like:

iwdrm, mr. div, head like an orange

file under: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_limitation

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

#90
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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

$12 for a single business card ? I feel like I would be better served by stapling my existing business card to a $10 bill...

> I feel like I would be better served by stapling my existing business card to a $10 bill...

You've expressed a thought, not an emotion.

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...

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