Comments for "Animated Illusion" Video at VideoSift.com

By lucidgroove

lucidgroove (http://books.videosift.com/member/lucidgroove) — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:26:08 -0700

That is cool.

By garmachi

garmachi (http://books.videosift.com/member/garmachi) — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:03:39 -0700

I want that book! What is it and where can I get it?

By snoozedoctor

snoozedoctor (http://books.videosift.com/member/snoozedoctor) — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:13:42 -0700

Amazing.

By Raaagh

Raaagh (http://books.videosift.com/member/Raaagh) — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:21:59 -0700

Really?

I thought this was waaayyy over dramatic.

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:50:50 -0700

>> ^garmachi:
I want that book! What is it and where can I get it?

Same here! Awesome! *art

By siftbot

siftbot (http://books.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:50:50 -0700

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By NordlichReiter

NordlichReiter (http://books.videosift.com/member/NordlichReiter) — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:09:04 -0700

Makes my eyes hurt.

But Still cool.

By jmzero

jmzero (http://books.videosift.com/member/jmzero) — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:40:53 -0700

My kid has this book which is a similar idea. They're pretty neat.

By rychan

rychan (http://books.videosift.com/member/rychan) — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:24:13 -0700

It's very nice. I wouldn't call it an illusion, though. Our visual system is doing exactly what you would expect it to do. The figures we're seeing are actually being rendered by the grate. It's a clever animation system, not an illusion.

By Pooterius

Pooterius (http://books.videosift.com/member/Pooterius) — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:22:13 -0700

It looks like it wouldn't be too hard to make these with Photoshop and a printer. The overlay looks like the tough part, but I think you can laser print onto overlay material, correct? It would also be a challenge getting an animation that cycles smoothly.

By Nebosuke

Nebosuke (http://books.videosift.com/member/Nebosuke) — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:57:52 -0700

It's a zoetrope... in a book. Pretty much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope

By complacentnation

complacentnation (http://books.videosift.com/member/complacentnation) — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:19:22 -0700

Theoretically, please inform me if I'm wrong because I definitely should not be theorizing - but if the space between the lines are laid out correctly in photoshop - for the bar template one should be able to knock out each animation with the correct spacing. That is too say that the author of this video made it seem like he had the correct spacing info - but any spacing should work - his spacing looks like it worked well with only little movement required in order to trigger the animation. It's basically playing with white space. Tell me if I'm missing something I'd love to give this a shot.

By eric3579

eric3579 (http://eric3579.videosift.com) — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:36:55 -0700

Speaking of Zoetropes, check out these larger than life ones
http://www.videosift.com/video/Burning-Man-zoetropes-very-cool-art-installations

By complacentnation

complacentnation (http://books.videosift.com/member/complacentnation) — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:44:46 -0700

So, I just realized that I've seen this same technique used as animated wind ornaments. The technique is called parallax perception. Well, now everyone has to figure out how to make these in color.

By pipp3355

pipp3355 (http://books.videosift.com/member/pipp3355) — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:14:15 -0700

agreed, complacentnation, i would like to see this done 1) in colour 2) supersized scale 3) as light graffiti projected onto large buildings 4) 3d rendered 5) interactive

light gaffiti examples:

http://www.photopumpkin.com/photo-blog/light-graffiti/

By complacentnation

complacentnation (http://books.videosift.com/member/complacentnation) — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:22:58 -0700

Yeah I just did this in illustrator and photoshop real quick - quickly laid out a bar grid in illustrator. Took a star in illustrator duplicated it many times (some "movement" at interval opacity - ie object 1 - 100% - object 2 - 95% obj 3 -90, obj 4 - 95 obj 5 - back to 100). Pasted the bar bones star - then the gradated moving image. Duplicated the moving image about 5 times adjusting it's movement in photoshop. Then lastly pasted in the bar, moved the bar down the row knocking out each animation in it's succession. And wham - there it is. Well, this may not work for animating intricate animations but if you're like me and you like creating animated rorschachs then it works, hehe. One interesting thing I'm messing around with, is after knocking the bar out is to paint in something else at 80% opacity when the white had been knocked out -the image then morphs into what you painted in. Also, inverting the image is pretty neat.

By spoco2

spoco2 (http://books.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:06:22 -0700

Hey, how cool, my 18mth old son was JUST GIVEN a book that uses this... except that each page of the book does this automatically as you open the page (the plastic overlay is embedded into each page like a window that is pulled when you open it.

I just read it to him the other night and thought "Woah, this is awesome"... so yeah, cool to see it here only a couple of nights after I'd seen it 'in the wild'

By complacentnation

complacentnation (http://books.videosift.com/member/complacentnation) — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:18:03 -0700

what is the name of this (or the book you have) book and who publishes it?

By garmachi

garmachi (http://books.videosift.com/member/garmachi) — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:22:52 -0700

>> ^garmachi:
I want that book! What is it and where can I get it?

HERE it is on amazon.com

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:52:41 -0700

Similar post over here:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Animated-Optical-Illusion

By kronosposeidon

kronosposeidon (http://kronosposeidon.videosift.com) — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:17:56 -0700

*books

By siftbot

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By swedishfriend

swedishfriend (http://books.videosift.com/member/swedishfriend) — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:35:35 -0700

would have upvoted but cannot on moral grounds due to the ill-suited music.
-Karl

By lertad

lertad (http://lertad.videosift.com) — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:02:49 -0700

I want that music.

By Zonbie

Zonbie (http://zonbie.videosift.com) — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:44:46 -0700

I liked the ambient *music too Very nice

By siftbot

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By fataltourist

fataltourist (http://books.videosift.com/member/fataltourist) — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:41:35 -0700

Lenticular printing without the plastic lenses (like those old Cracker Jack prizes, etc)