help i accidentally a wigglegram
149 points by winter
149 points by winter
This really is so fun and silly - it's such a "stupid" thing and yet it works so well. But oof, that hashing process (oof in the "that's a huge amount of downloading and hashing work" sense, not criticizing it). For a quick toy project/experiment like that it seems entirely reasonable to do the simplest thing that could possibly work and just have it take a "long time" but while it's in the background so that actual wall clock time isn't actually important.
If I had the imagination to have thought of something like this I'm not sure if I would have done it this way, or if I would have pre-filtered to exclude any pictures that were not taken within fairly narrow time window of other photos. But that's with the huge classic caveat of a variation of "... and then I spent a week trying to do the optimal pre filtering process, got bored, and didn't end up with anything interesting or fun".
It's the classic problem of "doing the dishes", I could do all the dishes myself in under ten minutes, or I could put them in The Device and wait a couple hours for very little personal effort.
dishwashers also use way less water
I was taught to use 2 basins for handwashing - one for the soap, and one for rinsing.
So you rinse in one with on basin of water then soap them in the second basin of water then drain and wash off? I never got this method well
Not exactly. The first basin is generally with soap. You wash there, then rinse in the second basin which has non-soapy water. But this of course gets more and more soapy as washing proceeds. I guess it's a fight between saving water and getting less than pristine plates and cutlery.
Mind you, this was in home ec in middle school. Hygienic standards might have been revised since the last century...
Agreed.
When I worked in commercial kitchens a long time ago, we had 3 sinks(I may have the rinse/sanitize order wrong, but I don't think so):
They are the big stainless steel square sinks you see everywhere in commercial/industrial kitchens. We would fill about 1/2 full with water and scrub everything, move to the rinse and then when the rinse sink was full, we would pull from the bottom and move to the sanitize. It would just slip through the sanitize for a few seconds, not long at all and then get dried and stacked(and usually used again minutes later, when under load)
Then we got a commercial dishwasher, and wow those things are amazing. They take giant racks of dishes and wash in 5 minutes or so. Optimized very differently than a personal/household dishwasher. We had a full time guy that just ran the dishwasher. Plates never left the racks the dishes were put on, they were never stacked. We had 100's of the dish racks and counter/rack space for days just to handle dishes.
But they do use way more electricity, which in many (most?) parts of the world is the more scarce and expensive resource.
(I measured and ranked the electricity use of everything in my house a few years back and the dishwasher came in at #2, after the central air conditioner.)
Does that only apply if you use heated dry, or was energy usage still high with heated dry disabled? I always turn that off because it seems unnecessary.
In my experience, the heating element is on almost the whole time the washer is running. This is to make the cleaning process more effective (hot water removes food particles better than cold or warm water) and also to kill bacteria, etc. But yeah, the drying cycle also adds to the energy cost, if you use it. (I don't either but it's the default on every washer I've ever seen, so probably most people do.)
I’ll never understand my parents love for their dishwasher when just loading and unloading takes longer than washing by hand…
Well made point
As others said, less water, and dishwashers usually sanitize by heating them after. That's why they come out hot.
If you're spending under five seconds washing and drying a plate I think you might not be doing it thoroughly.
huh..?
It takes very very little time to put a plate into or take it out of a dishwasher. On the other hand washing it manually tends to take more time as you need to wash and dry it.
Back in 2013 my then-partner and I built a stereoscopic "photo booth" consisting of three iPods behind a two-way mirror, controlled by a small web app, with an iPad used to trigger the capture and show you the result. It wasn't very good but it was fun to make! http://stereogif.me
I wonder if a date taken analysis would give similar results. Perhaps more false negatives because not all sequences are taken quickly.
I think it'd be a good "bucket these into potentials for hashing" filter (along with location information if it's there) - saves you hashing every single photo at least. Plus, I think, at least on macOS, you could grab timestamp + location information direct from Photos' sqlite database without having to download anything from the cloud.
I remember this effect being extremely popular in early 2010s on Tumblr and neighbouring sites.
That said, I have spent last hours taking photos of my cats and creating gifs, thanks for this!
How do I get that grainy, lofi look?
Floyd-Steinberg dithering with a 256 color palette. You'll get the latter "for free" by virtue of generating a GIF unless you use fancy techniques to compose frames of multiple windows with their own local colortable.
Ooo, neat. There used to be a service that took Nintendo 3DS pictures and turned them into animated GIFs for each of the two camera frames. I called them "wigglepics" on my blog. It was a very fun aesthetic.
i'm not sure if this is the same service, but this is the one i use to make mine!: https://3dswigglegram.com/
it's made super easy with a 3DS that has CFW so you can transfer the pics through an FTP server. that's what i do at least. i have a small gallery of some of my wigglegrams here; this post has me wanting to make more lol https://eunoia.sayitditto.net/photos/wigglegrams/
I had no idea hashing algorithms which retain information about the picture (so you can compare hashes to yield the similarity of the pictures) existed. I bet that has loads of applications I've never thought of before.
Apple Iphones and google pixel have something called live/motions photos, so we already had live photos before them called wiggles :P \j
No? They were called "wiggle" in 2002 and "wigglegram" was coined in 2007 - both well before live photos were introduced in 2015.
See https://kitslo.com/the-history-of-wigglegram-3d-photography-from-nostalgia-to-digital/ for more details.
Yeah but those are also just short videos - they don’t really produce the same effect as the wiggling does. I’d guess it’s specifically just the toggling back and forth between just two frames is another to trigger some part of the binocular perception and interpretation in the brain.
Also (very subjectively) I found the switch from rapid series of photos to short videos terrible - I don’t think I have ever wanted an incredibly short video, I want to take a series of photos so that I can get a photo at the right moment while something (90% my dog) is moving or thinking about moving.