Genius! Just one request. Crop a little off the left of the animation. I can't stop staring at the hair on that thumb. It's like watching tall grass sway in the wind.
Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing
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#92I 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 upvoted this 10 times, even though it counts once. Thank you, scoofy.
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#93WHY OH WHY are there no Internet meme samples? I'd think Dramatic Chipmunk would be a shoo-in.
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#95Earlier 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.
I upvoted this 10 times, even though it counts once. Thank you, scoofy.
You really should have done it 9 or 11 times. :P
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#96OMG. I was just looking at one of my children's books earlier and came up with exactly this idea. Two hours later, sit down on HN and someone has already done it. Awesome work whoever did this!
I had this idea too a few months ago. I had looked at lenticular sheets and other things but stopped thinking about it eventually, not sure why. (except for the fact that is what I usually do: I have an idea, think about it for a little bit, look at how it could be done and stop there :))
I think it was a combination of the price of the individual sheets (on Amazon at least) and the need for a high quality printer and assembly (the print and the lenticular sheet need to be perfectly aligned). I was imagining a cheap service to get memes into magnets for your fridge but the prices seemed not to match this vision. Working with artists like this site is doing is definitely a great idea. I had started trying to find a local printer but I don't think I found anybody fast enough for me not to move on to a different idea.
Great work!
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 dollar…
We totally understand! We still have to finalize pricing with our manufacturer so that's why we've asked people on the homepage to email us with business card / wedding invitation inquiries. It gets almost an order of magnitude cheaper logistics/labor wise to do large runs, we just need to make sure we can do a good enough quality job!
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#98This is very cool. Is there any particular reason why non-GIF version is limited to just 2 pictures? It would be awesome to be able to manually upload a number of images, especially with phones supporting burst mode.
We'd love to offer manual upload of a sequence of images, we just don't want people to get the idea that they can upload 10 unique images. With lenticular sheets at this high framecount there's always some ghosting, so it's really for motion (gifs+video) or flipping between a couple distinct images (flip)
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#99Explain what lenticular is on the home page, and maybe show a photo of an actual example?
That's great feedback. The first image is an actual example of a gif card at work (hovering plays the animation), and the third link is an explanation of lenticular printing. We should make it more clear though!
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Thanks for this! This thought has been stewing in my head for a while too. Like, for example, cinemagraphs are a creative invention forced by the constraint of the GIF format (ie, tumblr and imgur's size limit means playing to GIF's strengths, like only animating regions of images).
We've also heard from working with Mr. Div and Patakk and the others that sometimes they do hacks to maximize their oomph. For Patakk, sometimes his geometries don't take up the full 500px so that he can pack more motion in a smaller area (and so for our art prints, he's filling out the frame more because that restriction isn't there). Exciting times!