Chronotopic Anamorphosis

By yayo in Art, Video Clips on Jul 6, 2008 at 1:45 am

André Mintz of the Marginalia Project explains what “Chronotopic Anamorphosis” is all about:

The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distorsion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or, as Brazilian researcher Arlindo Machado calls it: chronotopic anamorphosis.

The last segment of the video is the coolest one, hit play or follow the link to the Vimeo video.

Link – via Furl

Author of Chronotopic Anamorphosis video and software: André Mintz
Marginalia Project group: André Mintz and Pedro Veneroso
Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil – Thanks for the info, André!


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  1. Vlad Bjornson
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 2:15 am

    This technique is also know as Slit Scan photography. Makes for some pretty trippy images/video.

    http://s12336.gridserver.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/

  2. Evilbeagle
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 3:21 am

    That was pretty neat, even though it’s probably not the best thing in the world to watch with a hangover.

  3. Joseph Francis
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 3:45 am

    That technique is called ‘slit scanning’ and it dates back to optical printers, animation stands, Douglas Trumbull, and the 1960′s

  4. yayo
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 4:45 am

    may not be good for a hangover but if you’re still on it could be “kindacool!”

  5. Evilbeagle
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 7:25 am

    Good point, yayo. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t have been able to find my computer last night if I had wanted to. ;)

  6. Peter Kelly
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 10:10 am

    It is a good effect. I think ultra subtle use could give an almost subconscious trip effect. The lines are distracting. It would be nice to see with a rendering that gave half values and smoothing to the break points so they were not obvious.
    Overall very cool. :)

  7. yayo
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 10:35 am

    yes… it’s homemade, a bit more of postproduction could make it better…

    Anyway, the goin’through the door effect is really cool ^^

  8. Thomas
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    Effin awesome.

  9. CheeseDuck
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    Woah. Thats just awesome.

  10. Roger Avary
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    While it’s true that Slit Scan photography was invented by Douglas Trumbull, this technique of Slit Scan time displacement on 3d objects was first done by Zbigniew Rybczynski.

  11. AM
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    That guy knows how to move hehe

  12. ted
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    Cool. That kid can dance.

  13. MidwestMedic
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 11:09 pm

    This video did a darn good job of showing what vertigo feels/looks like to e when i’ve had it. You know things aren’t moving like they look like they are…but you see it anyway. though this has more the trippy effect than the nausea of vertigo.

  14. Jagsareblack
    Jul 7th, 2008 at 10:06 am

    This is like Muse’s “Unintended” video!

  15. pedro veneroso
    Apr 19th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    marginalia project has a new experiment on the following link:
    http://www.vimeo.com/4205136
    thanks for posting chronotopic here, btw


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