Temporal distortion photography



I just stumbled across the amazing KHRONOS projector while browsing for Slit Scan Photography .

Slit Scan photography has been around for a long time, it basically just means that you take a pictures through a moving slit, exposing only a small strip of your film at a given time. If this sounds like gibberish, just imagine placing your hand an a photo copier and moving it with the scanner.... the hand will stretch forever, as long as it moves with the slit.

Now this technology creates fun, yet non-interactive distorted pictures. What would happen if you stored all the movement, but you wouldn't freeze it into the pictures?

Luckily the digital age has made this possible, by adding the time as a third dimension to an image. This 'temporal offset' can then be experienced by 'punching' into the picture. Enough said, just try it out yourself!

Here are some interactive examples using the Processing scripting language:



http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/Khronos_P5/Khronos_Jefo.html

http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/Khronos_P5/Khronos_ShibuyaShort.html

The main KHRONOS Projector website can be found here: http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/

Posted: Tue - January 2, 2007 at 02:27 PM         |

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