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 distortion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or, as Brazilian researcher Arlindo Machado calls it: chronotopic anamorphosis.
The effect as he walks in and out of the door is cool.
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I believe that software grows on cow turds.
I wonder if this works with porn.
This is nothing new. Everything looks that way when you’re trippin’ balls.
I just turned down the color level on my TV. I call it… Coloralis Desaturatus.
I just turned the color all the way up on my TV. I call it Colorific Blastawhamic.
Lame.
And Deja VU too. Seen it Late eighties on TV. There was even a Brazilian soap opera from early nineties with this effect (but done right) on the opening credits.
Pretty cool effect.
I have the same effect going the morning after I had too many beers.
I expect to see this in some movie within a year or so. Hopefully the guy can cash in a bit.
Give it time. Someone just might find a use for this.
Somewhere out there, Philo Farnsworth and Vladimir Zworykin are saying “WTF? Bad interlacing is art? Who knew?”
#13, pedro,
I’m so glad to hear you have the time to watch British soap operas. I have no idea which one, even if I knew any by name, so therefore have no confidence in his post.
You, on the other hand, are still a jerk.
And you Mr. Catshit are geographically agnostic:
Brazillian, not British…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbsNc0l-YHk
Warning: NSFW (although this used to air @ prime time, at least here in Portugal)
What’s with all the “lines” passing down along the image? Certainly, it could look smoother and more seamless. And why does the guy in the video look like such a sad sack? If you’re gonna show off something cool, smile about it!