ryanhartzell / scanimate

Tiny Python package for generating static animations (also known as 'scanimations')

scanimate

Tiny Python package for generating static animations (also known as 'scanimations')

Leverages Moire patterns for motion effects.

Note that you'd currently need to fake things digitally to see movement which defeats the purpose, or (preferably) print the grid onto transparency paper or 3D print an opaque grid. Eventually I'll be creating a simple web-app to simulate the effect and provide an interface and API for generating scanimations of user uploaded image stacks or gifs, and I have follow-up plans to make a lightweight phone app (at least on android) which could display various "grid" patterns as an overlay of video from the camera/webcam.

Example:

Michael GIF

Michael Scanimation

Grid used to create effect

scanimate's Issues

Switch to mathematical descriptions of patterns

For any pattern there should be an analytical formula which can be implemented. They're all periodic in nature, so it should be pretty easy. Will need to do some fun stuff with phase in order to translate things properly on a meshgrid, but it'll make the most sense for more complex patterns like radial Moire spiral

Angular app

Make an angular app which we can host on project page, and which will eventually contain client-side code to run the app directly from static github-pages website. Likely TypeScript + Tensorflow.js is what I'm thinking

More patterns!!!

Implement some other patterns to have fun with! :)

Moire class build-out

Need to continue translating proof of concept script into easy-to-use single class interface.