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Re:Lenticular Clock by calebm on Monday August 19, 2024 @05:23PM (#41294688)
I love lenticulars. I'm working on writing my own lenticular software right now. You can see some of my lenticular math art here: https://gods.art/
Re:Lenticular Clock by JKCalhoun on Monday August 19, 2024 @06:55PM (#41295254)
I did some experiments creating lenticular 3D and failed miserably. I'll look at what you got.

I would love to see the software, BTW.

Re:Lenticular Clock by silvershell on Monday August 19, 2024 @06:46PM (#41295198)
Amazing work!
Re:Lenticular Clock by theferalrobot on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:06PM (#41295887)
Those are amazing! Are you hand aligning those lenses on the print or is there some sort of tooling/hardware/service that is capable of it?
Re:Lenticular Clock by calebm on Monday August 19, 2024 @10:55PM (#41296333)
Hand aligning is the only way I know of.
Re:Lenticular Clock by mordechai9000 on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @01:58AM (#41297198)
Any chance you could share the math behind the pixel snowflakes?
Re:Lenticular Clock by hnlmorg on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @01:56AM (#41297194)
I’d love to know more about the floating exclamation mark in one of those pictures you’ve linked to
Re:Lenticular Clock by calebm on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @05:03PM (#41304046)
I just walked into the room and that was there. After some examination, I realized it is a projection of the forest behind our house shining through a crack in the window.
Re:Lenticular Clock by dr_kiszonka on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @02:23AM (#41297335)
I love the Give and Take one.
Re:Lenticular Clock by alt227 on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @02:30AM (#41297361)
When I click on a piece of art on your website it takes me to a page with an unhappy face and a message that says "No video with supported format and MIME type found".

Using Firefox 129.0.1

Re:Lenticular Clock by mkesper on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @10:48AM (#41300589)
It's a MOV tagged as video/mp4. For me, FF recognizes only the audio part but if extracting the raw video URL I can play it with vlc.
Re:Lenticular Clock by Hello71 on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @03:11PM (#41302992)
They're the same thing. The problem is not the container, it's the H.265 encoded video which Firefox doesn't accept. It's not a good idea to throw raw cell phone video onto a website, first because it probably won't play everywhere, and second because there's embedded high-precision location data.
Re:Lenticular Clock by sramsay64 on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @07:36PM (#41315244)
It's funny seeing this after the arguments in the mpv thread a few days ago[1] where over if VLC's extra bloat (and lack of features like stepping back a frame) is justified by it coping with diverse formats. This file doesn't play correctly for me in mpv[2], but does fine in VLC.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277014 [2] https://imgur.com/TeL4sfq

Re:Lenticular Clock by calebm on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @05:07PM (#41304079)
Thanks for the bug report.
Re:Lenticular Clock by navigate8310 on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @03:05AM (#41297541)
Hexagonal Jewel Tunnel looks like a hyperdrive into space
Re:Lenticular Clock by Karliss on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @06:32AM (#41298664)
I like how you chose the content of drawing so that it's complemented by lenticular effect instead of fighting against it. In many typical lenticular pictures that attempt to show an animation or 3d effect, there are angles in which you partially see two images thus ruining the picture by making it look blurry/striped. Not sure if it looks equally good in real life, but at least in the videos of your art the color gradients seemed to produce much smoother transition, which doesn't break the picture even when you partially see two consecutive frames.
Re:Lenticular Clock by calebm on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @05:05PM (#41304060)
Yes, if you want to do good lenticular art, you want nice smooth transitions (on a pixel-by-pixel level).
Re:Lenticular Clock by ljf on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @07:07AM (#41298851)
These are amazing - I'd love to buy one, if you are selling your art. Though shipping to the UK and import tax would probably make this prohibitively expensive.
Re:Lenticular Clock by calebm on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @05:06PM (#41304064)
I am selling. I can be contacted at [email protected]. I'm really not sure how much shipping/tax would be to UK (never sold internationally).
Re:Lenticular Clock by evan_ on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @01:25PM (#41302001)
those look great, you should post a Show HN about them. I'd be interested to know more about your process if you're comfortable sharing.