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a camera that forgets the whole picture and obsesses over one thin line of it, forever.
means an imaging technique that builds an image or video by exposing only a narrow slit of the frame over time, so motion gets stretched, sliced, or frozen in strange ways.
from born in the 1800s with strip photography for timing horse races and finish lines, then reborn in the 1960s when douglas trumbull built a slitscan rig to create the psychedelic star gate sequence in 2001: a space odyssey.
finish linesolympic photo finishes are literally slitscan images
warps timeobjects moving with the slit stretch or vanish entirely
pre-cgi effecttrumbull's rig took months of manual exposures
panoramic cousinrotating slit cameras made ultra-wide group photos
for instance
olympic photo finish — used since 1912 stockholm games to break sprint ties
jitter camera — golan levin's 2000 interactive slitscan art tool
strip photography — 19th century horse-race cameras that inspired it all