"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result.

[ancientjames@mastodon.social]

"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result.

I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@ancientjames the ⚠️ bokeh was so good

[narthur@hachyderm.io]

@ancientjames @awilbert what an incredible breadth of skills you have! And the imagination (and fortitude!) to put them together this way! Just… wow!

[ge0rg@chaos.social]

@ancientjames this is so wild and exciting! 🤯

I couldn't imagine that creating an active lens mount adapter is within the skills of a single person. For sure it's far beyond my skills, even though I often wished I had a way to create an active adapter for my abandoned Samsung NX camera system.
@narthur

[craftamap@chaos.social]

@ancientjames this is so lovely!

... Can you play bad apple on it?

[tinybird@timetheft.social]

@ancientjames this is really cool. interesting to see the Uffington White Horse on there, are you from Oxfordshire or something?

[utf_7@mastodon.social]

@ge0rg @ancientjames @narthur i dont even understand how it works. sunglass + lcd = transparent? but as soon you add a pixel, it is intransparent?

[helvick@mastodon.ie]

@utf_7 @ge0rg @ancientjames @narthur

LCD panels work by changing the polarization of the light as it passes through. Adding the polarising sunglass lens at a perpendicular angle makes it able to turn on and off pixels to selectively allow light through.

The execution of the idea is incredible.

[ancientjames@mastodon.social]

@tinybird yes!

[ancientjames@mastodon.social]

I made a deliberate decision not to put Bad Apple or Doom on this, YouTube commenters be damned.

But I'm going to put Doom on it, aren't I?

[nf6x@oldbytes.space]

@ancientjames If you wanted to defy expectations, you could put a nice rickroll on it instead.

[ancientjames@mastodon.social]

@NF6X That's one to slip into the background of a future video.

[krono@toot.berlin]

@ancientjames This is soooo cool

[lymenzies@fosstodon.org]

@ancientjames

Brilliantly done with excellent fit and finish.

[bornach@fosstodon.org]

@ancientjames
You have completely generalised the concept I saw someone did mechanically in a short
https://youtube.com/shorts/hgjK57kYGks

Also if you used the same binary patterns as in structured light photography you essentially have turned your camera into a slow Lytro Light Field camera
https://youtu.be/TcXMf0mTh94

Although you'd need a very steady hand to capture the 4D lightfield

[ancientjames@mastodon.social]

@bornach Oh nice - my initial concept was going to be mechanical, like a zoetrope.

[justin@social.younger.wtf]

@ancientjames I did this for a client project and put a logo in the bokeh with redshift, but this is so much cooler to have it IRL.

[doctormo@floss.social]

@ancientjames

I watched this while listening to https://toot.boston/@knizer/116030142808648378 and absolutely jived to the combination.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@ancientjames

I have that same miniware hotplate love it.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@ancientjames

Putting this right on #fediTV