Comments on: Slit-Scan

Slit-Scan

carsonb — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:07:59 -0800

An Informal Catalog of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and References
"Slitscan^w imaging techniques are used to create static images of time-based phenomena. In traditional film photography, slit scan images are created by exposing film as it slides past a slit-shaped aperture. In the digital realm, thin slices are extracted from a sequence of video frames, and concatenated into a new image." [via]

There are links to many of the examples listed; they're not immediately apparent, but usually consist of the italic text under each bold heading.

By: Saddo

Saddo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:21:00 -0800

brilliant!

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:07:27 -0800

i've actually seen that 'fourth dimention' video...it is unsane...the man and woman face each other...twist around each other...tighter and tighter into a brownish blur...which slowly untwists...into a tree. also...the ending from kubrick's 2001 UN-slitscanned.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:36:12 -0800

If anyone wants a copy of the (rather hard to find) fourth dimension video, hit me up on MeFi mail. I've been thinking about this for a while, and I think slitscanning has a lot more possibilities than currently implemented. For starters, I think it would be totally amazing in stereo. Radial slit scanning would be a trip, as would a frame with several different slit scan patterns (scanning outward from a center line). Slit scan the three primary color components of the video at slightly different delays, so still things are true to color, but moving things decohere and create interesting patterns.

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:20:22 -0800

the home version, of course, is as simple as rolling objects (like your face)(or cat) on your scanner

By: Crumpled Farm

Crumpled Farm — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:38:21 -0800

This catalog was compiled by Golan Levin. His Manual Input Sessions are particularly neat. He helped create a new Bachelor of Computer Science and Arts (BCSA) degree at Carnegie Mellon University.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:40:21 -0800

The ideologically converse progeny of this guy?

By: progosk

progosk — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:52:45 -0800

a few more i didn't see mentioned: - Keith Schofield's videos for Goose and Mims - Jonnie Ross for Blood of Abraham

By: Jonathan Harford

Jonathan Harford — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:50:32 -0800

...is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their...

By: Artifice_Eternity

Artifice_Eternity — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:35:29 -0800

One of my favorite pieces of slitscan work: the classic Doctor Who title sequence created by Bernard Lodge.

By: mrducts

mrducts — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:28:25 -0800

Very cool. Thanks!

By: ocherdraco

ocherdraco — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:51:23 -0800

Anyone know where I can see "The Fourth Dimension"? I've googled around and haven't found it anywhere. (Online would be great, but in person somewhere here in NYC would be good, too.)