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

[ferrix@mastodon.online]

@ancientjames Doom doesn't make any sense in this application; so yes obviously.

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@gsuberland @ancientjames definitely a great one that would really make some photographs just pop.

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@ancientjames I love that you do this, but I hate that you make it look so easy, but I love that, because you make it look so easy, I feel encouraged to give it a try.

[wtrmt@mastodon.social]

@ancientjames amazing stuff! The results are magical. This remind me of the weird shadows during an eclipse.

[ancientjames@mastodon.social]

@flipper I really want people watching my videos to see that these things can be done by one person, quite cheaply, at home. I always try to include some of the missteps and experiments along the way, but I always end up cutting those bits because they make it hard to follow what's actually going on. The result is a video that makes it seem as though I knew from the start what I was doing and how to do it, but the reality is a lot more haphazard and meandering.

[justin@social.younger.wtf]

@ancientjames I wonder what it would look like to do a thin top to bottom line opening that randomly bounced around, I just keep thinking of all the cool "trippy" or disorienting scenes a movie could do with this

[uint8_t@chaos.social]

@ancientjames absolutely amazing! loved the build video and animation. great work

[balloonpup@blimps.xyz]

@ancientjames stunning!

[gustav@merveilles.town]

@ancientjames This is amazing, great work!

Could you selectively open each cell in a grid in order to do make a light field representation of the image, sort of how the light field camera that came out a few years ago worked (Lytra iirc)?

Build question: How does the LCD let light through the sun glass shade? Something to do with polarization? Do you need to use special sun glasses or will any work? Would love to experiment with a diy projector using an LCD like this!

[apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises]

@ancientjames this is delightful

until the warning sign one which is viscerally low-key terrifying

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

@ancientjames Today I learned you also have a PeerTube channel! makertube.net/c/ancient/videos

[h5e@tech.lgbt]

@ancientjames holy fuckballs that’s such a simple idea with such a great effect. Not so simple to make though 😂 very impressive

Amazing

[ambientspace@cloudisland.nz]

@ancientjames this is one of the coolest things I've seen in ages. I love it!

[lymenzies@fosstodon.org]

@gustav @ancientjames

I've seen research work using coded apertures, this method would take it to another level.

https://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs448a-08-spring/levin-coded-aperture-sig07.pdf

[ancientjames@mastodon.social]

@gustav LCDs need a polariser on the front and back surface, and the liquid crystal in between twists the polarisation so that it either passes through both, or is blocked by one of them. In modifying the phone screen to be transparent, I had to peel off the original (reflective) back polariser. The bit with the glasses is me replacing that with a transparent polariser.

[ljrk@todon.eu]

@ancientjames This has some kiwami-japan vibes, absolutely mesmerizing!

[robryk@social.wuatek.is]

@ancientjames @flipper

On the off chance you didn't try: would partitioning everything into "main flow" and "failed sidepath" and indicating failed sidepath with a colored border or something make things easier to follow?

[bri7@social.treehouse.systems]

@ancientjames are you kidding me? you invented a lytro lense by accident

[bri7@social.treehouse.systems]

@utf_7 @ge0rg @ancientjames @narthur lcds require polarising filters to be able to see. Polarised light is interesting; it’s light with a grain. a filter that has opposite grain blocks the light. tilt it to match the grain it lets light through. the liquid crystal is like programmable polariser; you’re controlling the angle of the grain of the light passing through; not whether it gets blocked directly

[bri7@social.treehouse.systems]

@utf_7 @ge0rg @ancientjames @narthur a side effect is this could in theory be developed to a mode that automatically erases all reflections or deep atmospheric fog; (fog looks white cos it’s got chaotic grain. you can filter fog out with a polariser)