Paul Maguire
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WTF... does anyone else see the child teleport? pic.twitter.com/P0ju9J9cby
— @realTewkesburyBC (@TewkesburyLeak) December 12, 2018If you watch the woman’s face at the same time the boy appears, you can see her expression morph into a smile.
This technique is known as a Morph Cut, a feature added to Adobe Premiere Pro in 2015, intended to smooth transitions in interview footage, removing unwanted pauses, stutters, and filler words (“like,” “um,” and “uh”) without hard splices and cuts.
The results, when used appropriately in interview footage without a changing background, can be nearly seamless.
It’s likely that BBC News used a morph cut in the clip above to tighten up the interview without changing its meaning. But it’s also ripe for abuse and fully capable of altering the meaning of an interview, and in many cases, undetectable.
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4DViews
French production company specializing in volumetric filmmaking to create high quality assets for film production and AR ‘hologram’ actors captured as moving 3D models (ignore the twinky-twonky tech industry music):
Presenting our volumetric capture technology and its applications: hologram, VR, AR, VFX .. and so on.
Whilst this is not the first example, there are a couple of noteworthy things. First, there is a selection of interactive examples that run in browser which you can find here
Second, there are a few downloadable examples which can be used with either Unity or a variety of 3D modelling software (I presume this could be theoretically remixably in some way), which you can find here
4DViews website link can be found here
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Joost Grootens’s maps
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Singing Code
Work that strattles the messiness of natural language and the rigor of code, carrying across qualities of both, is perhaps the dominant theme of this blog, even more so than esolangs themselves.
The work of Sophie Brueckner, a former Silicon Valley software engineer, does this beautifully. Her Crying to Dragon Dictate is a personal favorite, a piece where she literally cries for five minutes into the dictation app, which desperately tries to find semantic value in the sounds of her sobbing.Crying to Dragon Dictate
A second piece is a performance of code inspired by John Baldessari. Baldessari put Sol LeWitt’s Sentences on Conceptual Art to showtune music, paying tribute to LeWitt while reminding us not to take this stuff too seriously. Brueckner sings the code she knows: C++. In a medieval-sounding chant, Brueckner brings our attention to each syllable of the work: code as flow.
Singing Code
More of Brueckner’s singing and code related work can be found here.
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(via fyprocessing)
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Doing some lerping. (Inspired by @revdancatt)
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Renewal
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RapidRecap
Surveillance cloud service from FLIR summarizes a time period of CCTV into a shorter video collaging together key moments. I know this is not something new (especially in the US where it has been available for some time), but the visual effect is interesting:
RapidRecap is an exclusive technology that simultaneously presents video events recorded at different points in a chosen timeframe to help users quickly review video footage that could span hours and hours.
With RapidRecap, all the activity the camera captures – such as pedestrians, animals and vehicles – are superimposed, each with an identifying time stamp. This powerful technology, that previously was only available to elite law enforcement agencies, makes it easy to quickly see everything that happened over a period of time in a single condensed video.