A collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr
archive on the subject of Slitscanning, a photographic effect
that creates distortions and occasionally insightful images
based on time. The slitscan effect has, of-late, had something
of a renaissance over the past year thanks to digital
technology. Once a time consuming and expensive technique,
coders have created their own solutions (either personally or
commercially in the mobile app market). For the uninitiated, it
has been defined by Golan Levin thus: Slitscan imaging
techniques are used to create static images of time-based
phenomena. In traditional film photography, slit scan images are
created by exposing film as it slides past a slit-shaped
aperture. In the digital realm, thin slices are extracted from a
sequence of video frames, and concatenated into a new image.
Below are some examples of creative coding with the slitscan
technique: Volumetric Slitscan Experiments by Memo Akten The
slitscan technique is a well-explored method in photogr