Everybody likes a just right animated GIF, excluding for some Hackaday commenters who it seems that like to reside a joyless life. And we will be able to’t suppose of a higher approach to have fun transferring photos than with a 3-D-printed trinocular digicam that makes virtual Wigglegrams a snap to create.
What’s a Wigglegram, you assert? We’ve observed them sooner than, however the elementary concept is to take 3 separate images via 3 other lenses on the identical time, in order that the parallax error from every lens ends up in 3 relatively other views. Stringing the 3 frames in combination as a GIF later ends up in a captivating phantasm of intensity and movement. In line with [scealux], the foundation for construction this digicam got here from photographer [Kirby Gladstein]’s paintings, which we need to admit is beautiful cool.
Whilst [Kirby] makes use of a distinct lenticular movie digicam for his pictures, [scealux] determined to start out his construct with a Sony a3600 mirrorless virtual digicam. A 3-D-printed lens frame with a focusing mechanism holds 3 small lenses which have been harvested from disposable 35 mm movie cameras — are the ones nonetheless a factor? Every lens sits in entrance of a collection of baffles to keep watch over the sunshine and make sure every of the 3 pictures falls on a definite a part of the digicam’s symbol sensor.
The ensuing trio of pictures presentations important vignetting, however that simplest provides to the allure of the completed GIF, which is created in Photoshop. That’s a handbook and relatively tedious procedure, however [scealux] says he has some macros to hurry issues up. Grainy even though they is also, we love those Wigglegrams; we don’t even hate the vertical structure. What we’d in reality like to look, even though, is to look the whole thing performed in-camera. We’ve observed a GIF digicam sooner than, and whilst automating the post-processing could be a problem, it sort of feels possible.