How the World Looks to Your Hubcap
July 29, 2014 10:31 PM Subscribe
Not clicking that!
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 10:48 PM on July 29, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 10:48 PM on July 29, 2014 [1 favorite]
Awesome! It's like Dave Bowman's interstellar trip to the Gas n' Sip.
posted by retronic at 10:51 PM on July 29, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by retronic at 10:51 PM on July 29, 2014 [5 favorites]
I was thinking Douglas Trumbull, as well. The Star Gate seqeunce was done using an elaborate slit-scan rig.
In any case, I don't consider myself much affected by flashing lights (just bright point sources in my peripheral, usually), but there's no way I could watch this thing for ten minutes.
posted by dhartung at 12:19 AM on July 30, 2014 [4 favorites]
In any case, I don't consider myself much affected by flashing lights (just bright point sources in my peripheral, usually), but there's no way I could watch this thing for ten minutes.
posted by dhartung at 12:19 AM on July 30, 2014 [4 favorites]
Wait, you mean my commute ISN'T supposed to look like this?
Oh. Um. Right. I guess I'll get new glasses after all.
posted by happyroach at 12:26 AM on July 30, 2014
Oh. Um. Right. I guess I'll get new glasses after all.
posted by happyroach at 12:26 AM on July 30, 2014
dhartung, that link has slitscan AND Lego?! Coolness!
posted by retronic at 12:28 AM on July 30, 2014
posted by retronic at 12:28 AM on July 30, 2014
Another hubcap cam.
Camera mounted on bicycle wheel 1.
Camera mounted on bicycle wheel 2.
Remember old screen saver on Windows, going through stars in space? I used to love that. This, however, these would make the ultimate screen saver.
Great post, thx for posting, OP.
posted by dancestoblue at 3:24 AM on July 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
Camera mounted on bicycle wheel 1.
Camera mounted on bicycle wheel 2.
Remember old screen saver on Windows, going through stars in space? I used to love that. This, however, these would make the ultimate screen saver.
Great post, thx for posting, OP.
posted by dancestoblue at 3:24 AM on July 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
That's really very mesmerising. I don't think I would be game - I can't imagine a level of strapping that would make me comfortable the camera wouldn't go skittering off into the never-never.
posted by smoke at 3:29 AM on July 30, 2014
posted by smoke at 3:29 AM on July 30, 2014
C'mon, it's just a spiral marketing campaign for Amoco.
Invigorate.
posted by Herodios at 4:19 AM on July 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
Invigorate.
posted by Herodios at 4:19 AM on July 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
That's really very mesmerising. I don't think I would be game - I can't imagine a level of strapping that would make me comfortable the camera wouldn't go skittering off into the never-never.
posted by smoke at 5:29 AM on July 30
Ryan Fox Plus 2 days ago
Believe it or not just duct tape. Tested it on slower roads at first and the camera wasn't budging so I took it in the city going 45mph .
That's the second comment under the video -- duct tape!
posted by dancestoblue at 4:36 AM on July 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by smoke at 5:29 AM on July 30
Ryan Fox Plus 2 days ago
Believe it or not just duct tape. Tested it on slower roads at first and the camera wasn't budging so I took it in the city going 45mph .
That's the second comment under the video -- duct tape!
posted by dancestoblue at 4:36 AM on July 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
I tried something like this. I put my Gopro brand camera into my Blendtec brand blender.
posted by bitslayer at 4:48 AM on July 30, 2014
posted by bitslayer at 4:48 AM on July 30, 2014
Related. Edited to lose the sense of discovery in it, but it's got a nice Boris Blank sountrack.
posted by ardgedee at 5:37 AM on July 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by ardgedee at 5:37 AM on July 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
Well, I was wondering, but a rough estimate shows that you'd need to go about 135mph before you'd reach a 30 frames per second synchronization causing the image to stabilize and that the revolutions per second of a car's hubcap at 45mph is therefore only about 10 †.
"I can't imagine a level of strapping that would make me comfortable the camera wouldn't go skittering off into the never-never."
I have a GoPro and the official heavy-duty suction mount which they "rate" at up to 120 miles per hour on a good, cleaned surface. And that's assuming, I imagine, a relatively low level of shocks and vibrations as mounted on the body of vehicle with a suspension. On the actual wheel, the mechanical shocks are going to be much higher.
I'd trust that suction mount on my car, including down near the running board (I've been intending to do this, but haven't gotten around to it), but absolutely would not on a hubcap. It would fail almost immediately. But duct tape would probably work quite well on a cleaned hubcap for a reasonably short period of time.
Personally, I probably wouldn't trust that, either. Cheap hubcaps are very cheap and you could drill a good mechanical mounting point into one, assuming that the hubcap mounting itself wouldn't fail because of the additional weight or that it's unbalanced. But if I did this, I'd put the GoPro in the protective case and use heavy-duty mounts and attach them to a hubcap that I knew would be secure.
It's an awful lot of trouble for a modest result and doesn't seem worth it to me. It might be more interesting if I were going to actually reach 135mph.
Hmm, you only need 1,798 rpm for sync which is right in the range of a variable speed drill (too slow for a rotary tool). So that might be a fun experiment. Maybe I should get on that.
† A 225/45R17 tire will have about a 24.98 inch outer diameter and thus a 78.48 inch circumference. The NTSC video framerate is 29.97fps, meaning the car would have to travel 196 feet per second, or 134 miles per hour for sync. And that means that at 45mph, the hubcap is turning at 10.1 times a second. At 23.976fps, it's 107.2mph for sync, so that doesn't help much.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 9:18 AM on July 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
"I can't imagine a level of strapping that would make me comfortable the camera wouldn't go skittering off into the never-never."
I have a GoPro and the official heavy-duty suction mount which they "rate" at up to 120 miles per hour on a good, cleaned surface. And that's assuming, I imagine, a relatively low level of shocks and vibrations as mounted on the body of vehicle with a suspension. On the actual wheel, the mechanical shocks are going to be much higher.
I'd trust that suction mount on my car, including down near the running board (I've been intending to do this, but haven't gotten around to it), but absolutely would not on a hubcap. It would fail almost immediately. But duct tape would probably work quite well on a cleaned hubcap for a reasonably short period of time.
Personally, I probably wouldn't trust that, either. Cheap hubcaps are very cheap and you could drill a good mechanical mounting point into one, assuming that the hubcap mounting itself wouldn't fail because of the additional weight or that it's unbalanced. But if I did this, I'd put the GoPro in the protective case and use heavy-duty mounts and attach them to a hubcap that I knew would be secure.
It's an awful lot of trouble for a modest result and doesn't seem worth it to me. It might be more interesting if I were going to actually reach 135mph.
Hmm, you only need 1,798 rpm for sync which is right in the range of a variable speed drill (too slow for a rotary tool). So that might be a fun experiment. Maybe I should get on that.
† A 225/45R17 tire will have about a 24.98 inch outer diameter and thus a 78.48 inch circumference. The NTSC video framerate is 29.97fps, meaning the car would have to travel 196 feet per second, or 134 miles per hour for sync. And that means that at 45mph, the hubcap is turning at 10.1 times a second. At 23.976fps, it's 107.2mph for sync, so that doesn't help much.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 9:18 AM on July 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
Dead link.
posted by charlie don't surf at 1:13 PM on July 30, 2014
posted by charlie don't surf at 1:13 PM on July 30, 2014
Yeah, looks like he either deleted it or took it private. It's not on his list of videos any more.
posted by ardgedee at 1:28 PM on July 30, 2014
posted by ardgedee at 1:28 PM on July 30, 2014
Ivan Fyodorovich: "a rough estimate shows that you'd need to go about 135mph"
Strap that sucker to a classic Mini with its 19.1 in diameter/60.1 in circumference tire and you only need to go 103 mph. Course you are now in a classic mini doing a 100.
posted by Mitheral at 5:05 PM on July 30, 2014
Strap that sucker to a classic Mini with its 19.1 in diameter/60.1 in circumference tire and you only need to go 103 mph. Course you are now in a classic mini doing a 100.
posted by Mitheral at 5:05 PM on July 30, 2014
It must have only been taken down temporarily, because I can see it in the list of videos, and it comes up fine when clicking the link.
posted by Bugbread at 9:16 PM on July 30, 2014
posted by Bugbread at 9:16 PM on July 30, 2014
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