Time-lapse videos as impressionist paintings

Brad Emerson uses some python code to stitch together his time-lapse photos into animated impressionist paintings (he uses the free program Imagemagick to process the images). Link (Thanks, Brad!)

[#1 posted by Torley , April 12, 2008 7:30 AM]

Link's not working at the moment but this looks beautiful, I'll come back to check it out later! :)

[#2 posted by jpanega1 , April 12, 2008 8:01 AM]

sorry, but it looks like a cheezy photoshop filter

[#3 posted by Jake0748 , April 12, 2008 9:39 AM]

Link still isn't working. I'd like to see, it looks interesting.

[#4 posted by qubex , April 12, 2008 9:41 AM]

JPANEGA1, yes it is a filter. That's the point. But it's animated - and impossible to watch as the server is broken. Mirror, anyone?

[#5 posted by the Other michael , April 12, 2008 2:54 PM]

At least one -- fireboat and Queen Mary -- is on YouTube from CaptEmerika

Trains doesn't seem to be on YT in the "animated" version, tho.

[#6 posted by erratic , April 12, 2008 3:58 PM]

Qubex, time-lapse does not equal animated and faux-art filters do not equal animated. So how does time-lapse + filters equal animated?

[#7 posted by Takuan , April 12, 2008 4:25 PM]

is a flip-book animated?

[#8 posted by weldpond , April 12, 2008 6:14 PM]

My friend Nirva was doing this in 2001:

http://www.ishiboo.com/~nirva/Projects/vidfilt/

[#9 posted by palindromic , April 12, 2008 9:56 PM]

Its neat to look at.. that one movie Waking Life users the same concept only a worse filter imo. They should have used something more like this for that movie..

[#10 posted by erratic , April 13, 2008 9:18 AM]

sigh... there's a lot of misunderstandings about filters and animation here. Waking Life did not use filters, it used a team of people who drew on top of footage frame by frame. That is called rotoscoping. It's not the MOST respectable form of animation because the rotoscope artist mostly traces existing images, but it is miles better than this because a monkey could push a button to turn on the filter. That's it, there's no frame-by-frame attention from the maker of this thing. The only thing remotely artistic about this might be the photographic composition and even that's fairly bland. This is not animation, it's a sequence of photos a monkey could take with an automatic filter that a monkey could apply. This really isn't boing boing worthy material.

[#11 posted by Turnbill , April 13, 2008 3:20 PM]

I'm sorry, but this is just kitch.

[#12 posted by palindromic , April 14, 2008 1:06 AM]

Fair play.. I thought it was computer generated. I still hated the look of it, immensely. Funnily enough I don't hate this..

[#13 posted by wrybread , April 14, 2008 10:36 AM]

I'm surprised there are so many negative comments on this. Come on, its a cool effect, and new to me. I agree that Photoshop filters on their own can be annoying but this is well done and a nice idea. Besides, timelapses are always interesting, and this is a good subject for one.

Search youtube for his timelapse of a sunset, absolutely beautiful.