Comments on: Playing With Time...

Playing With Time...

Jaybo — Sat, 15 May 2004 11:23:04 -0800

Playing With Time uses time lapse photography and computer animation to show events that normally happen too fast or too slow for humans to perceive. (via Neat Net Tricks newsletter)

By: i_cola

i_cola — Sat, 15 May 2004 11:56:40 -0800

I like this...I'm a sucker for continent/land formation animations.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Sat, 15 May 2004 12:25:28 -0800

This is good, etc.

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Sat, 15 May 2004 12:27:59 -0800

The Water Balloon Bounce makes me feel funny inside.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Sat, 15 May 2004 13:14:41 -0800

This one was especially cool. You can even see her hair grow.

By: ulotrichous

ulotrichous — Sat, 15 May 2004 20:06:52 -0800

These are great fun to watch... with the sound off. The added sound effects and music are awful.

By: sinical

sinical — Sat, 15 May 2004 20:33:47 -0800

That was excellent. Some of those weren't true time lapses though. They were just a set of blended images. I really enjoyed the few that were slowed down. As mentioned, the water balloon bounce is quite a trip.

By: nasim

nasim — Sat, 15 May 2004 21:58:14 -0800

These looked like the best of the bunch to me: night pregnant firecracker spraycan can glass Breaking water balloon bounce blink dandelion wood Drill snail potter freezer These are direct links to the quicktime files.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Sat, 15 May 2004 23:56:08 -0800

Most toyetic. Great fun. And some of the sound effects (like the one during the ice sculpture) were rather amusing.

By: verstegan

verstegan — Sun, 16 May 2004 06:31:57 -0800

And if you liked these, you might also enjoy the BBC's London to Brighton in Three-and-a-Half Minutes, from 1983. (Direct link to RealMedia file) The original London to Brighton in Four Minutes, from 1953, unfortunately doesn't seem to be available anywhere on the Internet. (The link on this page seems to be broken.) But the 1983 version is fun, with delightfully whooshy going-under-a-bridge, going-into-a-tunnel, going-past-another-train sound effects.