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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Chronotopic Anamorphosis

This is pretty cool and trippy as hell:

This video shows the test of a software developed as a programming exercise.

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 distorsion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or, as Brazilian researcher Arlindo Machado calls it: chronotopic anamorphosis.
If you've never used mind-altering drugs before, this is a pretty good approximation of what things can look like. And if you're using mind-altering drugs right now, you'll definitely get your money's worth watching this guy:

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