Creating Slit Scan Images from Quicktime Movies with FFMpeg on Mac OS X

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I have been filming out the window of subways lately and have come up with a foolproof method for creating slit scan images out of these vignettes. I use an iPhone 5s held in portrait mode, so the instructions below include a rotation of the video before compositing.

If they’re not already installed, install ffmpeg and imagemagick using Homebrew:

$> brew install imagemagick
$> brew install ffmpeg

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These 32 generative images (used as the background of this site) were inspired by the previous 16 Crystalline HTML Structures, use a custom OpenGL application, written in openFrameworks, to render generative patterns. The application (Github link) can also output Postscript vector files for high-resolution print output.

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All Images after the jump.

Convert a quicktime movie to animated gif with ImageMagick on OS X

First install Imagemagick with Homebrew with

brew install imagemagick

Then:

$> mkdir frames
$> ffmpeg -i movie.mov -r 30 frames/$image%03d.jpg
$> convert frames/*.jpg anim.gif

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View on Codepen: http://codepen.io/camb416/pen/YPvpLz

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