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Update: the videos I made from the same footage is here.
I’m currently working on a new time lapse project. Not a sort-of-time-lapse. But a true one. To put it short: I’ve had an SLR camera in my window at the same spot for one year. Snapping an image every half hour. Resulting in some pretty nice time lapse videos I’ll post here in a couple of days. But first a still image.
The resolution of the 16 000 images I now have from 2010 are 3888×2592 pixels. So I selected 3888 images snapped during the day. Then I got some generous help from my blog readers and twitter followers. To make a script that would take one line from the first image, the next line from the next image and so on. Jo Christian Oterhals, Nikolai Kristiansen and Aslak Hellesøy provided complete code for the solution.
I used the script from Aslak and made the following image:
You can click it to make it bigger.
It shows one whole year. January at the left and December to the right. You can clearly see that we have a pretty long winter and a decent summer here in Oslo, Norway.
The spring and autumn are both quite short.
It would have been nice to make an interactive version of this image. Where you could mouse over and get info on exactly when the image providing the line was taken. And maybe also bring up a thumbnail of the complete image. Maybe I’ll post all the 3888 images and hope that someone will make a solution like that…
Update:
I have now posted the full 3888 resolution image on flickr.
The diversity
Light and timing are some of the most important factors in an image. I have huge amounts of images snapped at the exact same spot. With the exact same focus point and the same f-number. The only thing that have changed is the season and the light. Bringing diversity like this:
But now I have some amazing videos to finish… 🙂
That is AMAZING. I’m going to favorite this so I can one day remember to check out the videos when you post them. I’m fascinated by time lapse so I’d love to see em. Gnarly, keep up the good work 🙂
Really lovely idea! Would be great to see the full resolution final image though. It seems a shame to use 3888 slices of photographs and then have the click-through image be only 1280×860.
I’ve now posted the full 3888 resolution image on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eirikso/5329594414/
Wow, that is cool. And you even have quite a nice view! If I did the same, I would end up with 3888 almost identical images of the block across the street. :-p
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Even on the full size image the vertical transitions are a little harsh. You might want to try the convolution trick I suggested in the previous post.
I was hoping you could share how to run Aslak’s script? What scripting language is it in?
Looks like a UNIX/Linux shell script using the ImageMagick montage and convert tools.
Eirikso,
I would like to do this same project. Would you be willing to do a tutorial on it? I would like to know what program you use to merge the images. Where would i place the script of code to complete this? Thanks!
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would it be possible to get a torrent (or direct download) of the 3888 images? I think I could do a (java based) interactive version fairly quickly…
That being said, 3888 images is 10.65 images per day, which seems a bit strange 🙂
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Another awesome and thematically related image that just showed up in my news feed, that I feel obligated to share with you:
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/01/twenty-four-hour-view-of-the-sky.html
Now that’s an amazing image!
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Wonderful work!
I did the same thing with a 2 hour time frame of the city of San Francisco.
I used Adobe Photoshop actions to put it together.
Fascinating work! Well done.
Awesome!
great idea. nicely done.
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Nice one ! Really like the final result.
I did something similar called HDTR, for “High Dynamic Time Range” : http://undo.copypaste.ch/experimental/when-the-night-falls-on-the-leman-shore
Keep up the good work !
Great work!
Question: did you use an intervalometer or just manually snap as you saw fit?
Thanks in advance.
I controlled the camera with an intervallometer. A laptop with timelapse software.
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Wow! This is incredible!
Wow. This is incredible!
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Hey Erik, is the full resolution original version sans text going to go up for sale? It’s a HUGE hit on Reddit right now, and I would love to make it my desktop background. It really moved me as a piece of art.
Thanks,
Mark
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Could I have 4 highres pictures of each season from that picture? If I can, email me it please.
Thanks in advance,
I would love to see a 3888 frame video where each column of pixels is gradually shifted.
I am a programmer, so please let me know if you would like me to write this! It would be awesome, I promise.
Dude this is super awesome! It looks so surreal and I love the fact you posted the diversity of some of the originals below it. That’s a project that must have taken an amazing amount of patience! To basically give up one of your SLR cameras for a year! Love it!
@Fredrik: Would this do: https://eirikso.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/OneYear4seasons.jpg ?
Nathan: making a video is a very good idea that I tried doing when making the image. But it would have occupied my machine for weeks rendering it.
However, now I have an 8 core MacPro that I can use and will see if I can alter the script and start rendering. I’ll let you know if I need any assistance with the programming.
An will keep you updated here.
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This is fantastic!!! Love your work and seeing the change in seasons… truly beautiful and incredibly patient of you to do this… well done x
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Its good one.
I once was talking to a friend about the following. Take the universe space, times, everything included. You can imagine it as a multidimensional (as many dimensions as you need) figure. Let’s say, that locally it is a bunch of 3-dimensional pictures in a stack that accounts for the pass of time. Our consciousness is manifested by looking at those pictures once after another in the time-wise direction. Then I was entertaining the idea of considering beings who’s consciousness is manifested in a different direction. Perhaps a direction that moves both a little bit time-wise and a little in some spacial direction(s). Here it is then that someone has created a cool picture of what such a being would see in an instant of its life.
Now I am really eager to see a video of what such a being would see in a ‘time’ lapse.
This is so amazing – I really love it. Thank you so much for sharing the whole process and the resulting mashup photo with us.
Trully amazing!
Hi Eirik, great project! I had the same idea that Nathan suggested of having a video where time moves from left to right. I think the time shift effect would look really awesome. I hope you can figure that out.
Did you manually align the individual photos in post processing, or was the camera anchored well enough that the photos were taken pre-aligned? I saw your video on the other timelapsed videos and you showed manually aligning them. It would seem a pretty onerous task for 3888 photos.
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Amazing picture!
Warm greetings,over there in lovely and amazing NORGE! I have liked so much your wonderful Creations.Indeed you have brought into being uppermost Photographies.I´d like to keeping up beholding your uttermost and workmanlike creations.Glad to meet you.I look forward to thy next message.Have you and yours a thriving New Year! Cheers! Heartily Alvarson.
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WOW!!!!!!!!! That’ so Amazing!!!!
I’m Very surprise!~!!!!!!?
That’s very wonderful~ I can see Norway’s 4 season in this Wonderful and fun ‘<>. Very good!!!!!
And, I know Norway’s 4 season length have a glance.I’m from Korea~~ I’m surprise too. ☜This mean, Korean is be surprised too.. As all that, This picture is Very exllent~!!b Umm~~ good!!!!!!♡♥<~ (That's (b's) means is very good~, exllent, and very wonderful.)))
Wow! It’s awesome! What a great picter this is! I think you are genius. I impressed your picture. I think Your idea was very fresh. Anyway, thank you for upload your nice ficture. I wish you have good 2012.
Such a great project, my hat goes off to you!
I hope it’s ok that I shared your picutre on my blog, http://karoleen.blogspot.com/2012/01/eirik-solheim-all-of-2010.html
All the best
Karoleen
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Hi Eirik, I love the images that you’ve put together. If possible, I’d like to get copies of the original full-size images you used. I tutor a course on image analysis, and an image collection such as this could prove very useful for giving students some hands-on experience with image manipulation.
Looking forward to seeing your future works.
Trevor
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awesome work and idea … a bit freaky, but awesome : )
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…I’d like to see the same technology capture a cross section of the earth’s surface from pole to pole… showing the length of seasons/photosynthesis represented by the visible color range of the photos (gradually expanding and contracting from top to bottom).
@Edward you should check out the Degree Confluence Project. They have photos of the surface of the earth at the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections. You can view a map of all of the images.
http://confluence.org/
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Amazing Picture. How do you realize it? fixing a camera a whole year in front of a winfow?
You can read more about how I did this here: https://eirikso.com/2011/01/05/one-year-in-2-minutes/
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How can I buy a large print of this for my home? Is that possible? Can you shoot me an email please?
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Your work with the images is really impressive. The four images are really superb. Thanks a lot for sharing!
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Hello Erik,
this is one of the most inspirering images I’ve seen. great idea, and a fantastic result!
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Is it at all possible to buy a print of this image? It is absolutly breathtaking, inspiring, and peaceful 🙂
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What an interesting idea!
I wonder whether some interpolating of light levels between images could reduce the prominence of the vertical ‘streaks.’
I could give that a shot. Contact me if you’re interested.
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Hi. If you provide me all photos and info, I will prepare version were you could rollover each line to get info about day and photo 🙂 It should take me about one day to code it 🙂
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Can I buy a printed copy of this image, please?
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nice work!
photographing that much is quite some work – especially without moving the camera!
i did something similar, though on a different time-scale.
I photographed ten days, spread out at different – not too irregularly spaced – intervals during the whole year, but at 2880 images per day ( one every 30 seconds ), and put it together into an animation where the time of day is the same in each day… so one can see the light levels in parallel:
https://vimeo.com/12871781
nice work Eirik!
miska
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Amazing work Eirik!
How do I purchase a large print for my home?
That is absolutely amazing. I have never seen anything like that before.
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Hi there, just wondering if you would be willing to send that algorithm for this, its stunning, so many possibilities. or even the name of the software you used would be awesome,
please let me know
You find the code here:
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From the comment and instructions from Aslak Hellesøy on this page:
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Hello Eirik,
We would like to feature this photo and the story behind in an article. Please contact me at bernt.kastberg at digitalfoto.dk. Thanks in advance, Bernt.
The people who keep posting this with the caption “A year in 365 slices!” are rather misleading. That caption made me think they were claiming the image comprised of only 365 photos, which I thought are way too few for such a uniform image. 3,888 makes far more sense! Great job (:
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Hi eirikso
I am a 17yo student who would like to make a similar project but i don’t really know how to use the program……
The resolution and number of pictures i have are different from you i i wish to get some kind of guide……
I would be really happy if you would reply to me.
Thank you
Hi. As data scientist and graphic design enthusiast, the composition annoys me since a moving average instead of raw pixel columns would help to create flow and continuity smoothing the image. A gaussian kernel with periodic boundary conditions would create an awesome effect. I can write a python script that will do it in minutes, just let me know if you want to give it a try. Cheers.
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