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Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing
- bigtech 13y agoSuper cool. Wondering if the prices are the same for original art as for the artist generated works.
- thebiglebrewski 13y agoHey, this is a great idea! Are you going to put out an API for this?
- goldenkey 13y agoYou should elaborate on whether you mean an affiliate API or something else. An API means nothing when the subject is a user-catered service
- thebiglebrewski 13y agoOk sure, let me elaborate. Will you have an API where I'll be able to send a request with a gif and an address to send it to, similar to lob?
- shashashasha 13y agoHi! Yes, we are planning on having a way to integrate with Gifpop. We're talking to a few gif app makers and hopefully will have something put together soon! (for the interested, we're currently built on node and express, which has been really great for prototyping and building out new endpoints that require lots of processing. our previous website, http://meshu.io http://meshu.io, was built on python/django)
- thebiglebrewski 13y agoAwesome! Thanks for your answer. Looking forward to that.
- shashashasha 13y agoYes thanks! If you have a specific usecase, please feel free to email omg@gifpop.io and we'll let you know when we have more information!
- devindotcom 13y ago10 frames is a little scanty, but I think the idea is great. I'm afraid most of my favorite gifs won't fit, but using this type of display is forehead-slappingly obvious - now that they've done it, of course.
- shashashasha 13y agoHi, thanks! 10 frames is a little short right now we agree, and we're working with our manufacturer to get even more. The main constraint is the registration accuracy between the lens and the print, which gets super hard when printing more than a few frames.
- swashboon 13y agoHave you tested making "loops" with larger frame counts by example printing out a strip and taping the ends together and spinning it to create a movie effect? Does that make sense?
- AdamTReineke 13y agoThis wouldn't work smoothly because each image would be, for example, 2 inches wide. You may have several frames per image, but then your eyes would have to jump two inches to the next frame. The old style zoetrope would have a much cleaner effect.
- shashashasha 13y agoThat's actually one reason why we're limiting things to up/down rotation also — the spacing of your eyes makes it hard to display lots of frames accurately when you're rotating it left/right. And zoetropes, so cool! We really want to try some of these out too: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/the-first-animated-gifs/ http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/the-first-animated-gif...
- evacuationdrill 13y agoYou could have four of these (maybe more?) with the top edges glued to a stick (side view: +). As you rotate the stick, you'd see 10 frames per sheet, then focus on the next one. I'm not sure if that would work.
- ljf 13y agoI want to see more shots of the actual prints though, I only saw one in the video, be good to get a better idea of the quality of the print and the motion.
- shashashasha 13y agoThanks! Here are some more links to gifs we've printed for artists: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/mrdiv-8x8.gif https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/mrdiv-... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/dvdp-8x8.gif https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/dvdp-8... And here's one of the very first we made, only with four frames and with a lower quality manufacturer, but it was a gift for a friend: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/firstgifpop_migurski.gif https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/firstg...
- Semaphor 13y agoThat Immortal business card is amazing :D
- highphive 13y agoAwesome idea at a pretty reasonable price. Regarding the video... they might want to invest in some acting lessons haha.
- shashashasha 13y agoYeah we are so bad at acting :) We even knocked over our camera while filming the shot referencing the BitBucket "Spooning" video: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/kickstarter_outtake.gif https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/kickst... reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYBjVTMUQY0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYBjVTMUQY0
- jimzvz 13y agoI liked the video. I hate it when people take themselves too seriously. Good luck to the team.
- sarah2079 13y agoThis is an awesome idea. I would love the option to upload a short video clip instead of a gif though, and have it take 10 evenly spaced frames from the video. My nieces (ages 8 & 10) would love to use this to make prints of themselves in action, but it would be easier for them to be able go straight from a video taken with a phone to a printed product.
- shashashasha 13y agoThanks! We currently do support Vine and Instagram video, and you can pick a short clip from there. Processing all videos in all formats is a little tricky right now and it's helpful to have the pre-constraint of those social networks. Taking video from a phone is a great idea though!
- doctorwho 13y agoIt's pretty easy to extract all the image data from ANY video source using FFMPEG. If the command line version doesn't fit into your workflow, there's always libavcodec (what FFMPEG is based on). Give me a shout if you're interested in supporting any and all video formats.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y agoExpanding on what doctorwho said: ffmpeg -i input.whatever frame-%04d.png Explode virtually any video format into frames, assuming that you've configured ffmpeg generously at compile time.
- shashashasha 13y agoTotally! We just need to do more work on our end to make sure we don't end up accidentally accepting multi-gig video files. Vine and Instagram is a convenient way to start because it's much more constrained :)
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- skyebook 13y agoWe were lucky enough to have Sha and Rachel come to ultravisual for lunch yesterday, first time I got to see some of the lenticulars in person and they look awesome. I think they're taking this in a really fun direction, can't wait to see what people make with the service :)
- nthitz 13y agoIt would be cool if the user could pick the 10 frames out of the gif rather than requiring 10 sequential frames!
- PavlovsCat 13y agoWith CSS transforms and javascript, it might be possible to make some kind of in-browser preview of the final result even!
- jypepin 13y agoOmg this is an amazing idea! I love gifs so much, I will definitely try this out!
- wnevets 13y agoI wish I would of though of this, pretty clever idea.
- kadjar 13y agoIs there really no way to see the pricing structure before I upload things? That's frustrating.
- shashashasha 13y agoThat's great feedback! We've been so rushed to get it out the door for the holidays that we're lacking some basic information up front. We'll get that up shortly! For now, some price/sizing deets: $12 each — 2.125" x 3.375" — Business Card $12 each — 2.75" x 2.75" — Small Square $15 each — 3.5" x 5.0" — Postcard $15 each — 5.0" x 5.0" — Large Square
- melvinmt 13y agoWhat's the delivery time? I would love to print a couple of these for christmas.
- shashashasha 13y agoWe're currently doing rolling shipping starting next week, and it should only take us a few days from you placing your order to us shipping things out!
- cadr 13y ago$12 for a single business card? I feel like I would be better served by stapling my existing business card to a $10 bill...
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- shashashasha 13y agoIt's definitely pricy if you order one at a time, but if you want a run of business cards costs come down to a couple dollars each. Or you can just staple your existing business card to a $1 bill!
- biot 13y agoI know this ship has sailed, but the G in GIF is pronounced like in "gin", not like in "gig".
- Pxtl 13y agoThen they should've called it Jif. Tasty, tasty Jif. Also, my handle is pronounced "James Luxury Yacht". Which is in turn pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove".
- dublinben 13y agoAs the initialization for Graphics Interchange Format, a hard g is just as appropriate as a soft g.
- scoofy 13y agoAs a student of philosophy of language I love/hate this debate. I'll say this, I feel badly for people who think the creator gets to control the pronunciation. Hopefully the prescriptivists will learn language evolves irregardless of whether we want it to. Whenever you think you have firm rules, you will find they will change momentarily. Let me know if you spot what I snuck in there.
- shashashasha 13y ago<3 <3 We were just talking about this yesterday with some friends, and they put it nicely as "Language has no master"
- heyitsnick 13y agoPerhaps more accurately put, the "English language has no master." Many--perhaps most--European languages, do have prescriptivist masters. Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and dozens more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators
- kalensh 13y ago
- BSeward 13y agoThis is super cool. I've looked a little at lenticular printing for 3D prints but sourcing the lenses was a little more effort than I needed. I'd pay well over material cost to have someone else handle assembling. If you add an option meant for that I'd be all over it.
- shashashasha 13y agoThanks! What do you mean about adding an option for 3D prints? Do you mean doing the layering on our end? We could get you viewing angles and such so that you could upload prelayered imagery through the website normally, would that work?
- rcthompson 13y agoLenticular printing can also be used to present stereoscopic images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing#Types_of_lenticular_prints http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing#Types_of_le...
- BSeward 13y agoLayering on your end, yeah. Per pages like http://www.microlens.com/pages/choosing_right_lens.htm http://www.microlens.com/pages/choosing_right_lens.htm different applications prefer different viewing angles. If you can track down ideal lenses and give tips for capturing ideal photos that'd be awesome. http://poppy3d.com/ http://poppy3d.com/ is cute product shipping soon: they might be interested in partnering (they've had ~2900 backers on Kickstarter)
- aleyan 13y agoLooks fantastic. I noticed that all the lenticulars demonstrated have horizontally aligned lenses for a final image that you rock head to heel. Why not offer a vertically aligned lenses for a final image to that you rock side to side? If I understand correctly, a user should be able to do this themselves if they flip the source image 90 degrees, but an option would be nice. There are some issues with your eyes seeing different frames with vertical lenses, but that could be used for cool stereo effects too.
- shashashasha 13y agoHi Aleyan! Yes, side to side works but it works much better when you're further away (unless you've calculated the eye spacing and distance in your imagery). We're planning on offering the option for artist prints to be printed horizontally or vertically, because some of them will be hung on walls.
- thedufer 13y agoVertically-aligned is a good way to get 3D out of lenticular prints because each eye sees different images. Unfortunately, this means that things that are supposed to be 2D/animated instead of 3D/still would not look as nice as horizontally-aligned ones.
- kkshin 13y agoHow far is the technology from being able to do this on textiles? That would be sick.
- doctorwho 13y agoVery cool! I wrote code to do this back in 1995 for a company called 3DCOM. We supported full color, full page prints from a sequence of 24 images, each from a slightly different angle to produce a 3D "holographic" printout. the effect was so good you could stick your finger into the image. At the time (the dark ages of commodity printer technology) it required an EPSON inkjet that could do at least 1200dpi. After printing you just slapped a sticky-backed lenticular lens (lined up with registration marks) on the printout and voila! I kept one 8"x10" 3D printout of a buckyball that's still pretty impressive looking, even after nearly 20 years!
- shashashasha 13y agoThat's amazing! That's why we're honestly so excited about using lenticular type technologies with gifs — they both feel like dumb, old technologies that are actually kind of wonderfully straightforward, and have a lot of creative potential! If you have any photos of that buckyball print we'd love to see it!
- doctorwho 13y agoI'll dig it out of its box and take a snapshot, or a little video :)
- shashashasha 13y agothat would be amazing! we're hi@gifpop.io
- iancarroll 13y agoPost it on HN, I'd love to see it as well.
- doctorwho 13y agoHere's a quick video of the buckyball. The video is from today. The image was printed about 18 years ago :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlysJLjUZZQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlysJLjUZZQ
- awongh 13y agoalso just found out about http://meshu.io http://meshu.io through this- also a great idea!
- shashashasha 13y agoThanks! Meshu was our first project together, and we built it on Python/Django. It's been really fun and kind of crazy to have two projects with holiday rushes at the same time :)
- recycleme 13y agoOk, now just combine that with t-shirts (g-shirts). edit: awesome idea btw!
- duiker101 13y agois that my hackertyper that I see there? :D
- shashashasha 13y agoYES OH MY GOD! We tried to reference a lot of our favorite memes and things in the video. Glad you caught it!
- duiker101 13y agoI love the fact that people still use it ^^ Thanks for that you really made my day!
- judk 13y agoExplain what lenticular is on the home page, and maybe show a photo of an actual example?
- shashashasha 13y agoThat's great feedback. The first image is an actual example of a gif card at work (hovering plays the animation), and the third link is an explanation of lenticular printing. We should make it more clear though!
- ntaylor 13y agoGetting errors when I attempt to upload an image in Chrome (and IE). Uncaught SecurityError: Access to 'localStorage' is denied for this document.
- wehadfun 13y agoput this on etsy
- HyprMusic 13y agoThis is very cool. Is there any particular reason why non-GIF version is limited to just 2 pictures? It would be awesome to be able to manually upload a number of images, especially with phones supporting burst mode.
- shashashasha 13y agoWe'd love to offer manual upload of a sequence of images, we just don't want people to get the idea that they can upload 10 unique images. With lenticular sheets at this high framecount there's always some ghosting, so it's really for motion (gifs+video) or flipping between a couple distinct images (flip)
- andersthue 13y agoCan they do animated ascii art too?
- geekfactor 13y agoJust placed an order. Looking forward to receiving the card. You guys should consider doing affiliate deals with places like http://makeagif.com http://makeagif.com. (That's where I made my animated GIF in the first place.)
- yefim 13y agoThis is awesome. Definitely has a Harry Potter feel to it. Love it!
- csmuk 13y agoOMG. I was just looking at one of my children's books earlier and came up with exactly this idea. Two hours later, sit down on HN and someone has already done it. Awesome work whoever did this!
- shashashasha 13y agoThank you! XOXO http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbxb2zaVsR1qcqj0ko1_500.gif http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbxb2zaVsR1qcqj0ko1_500.gi...
- Timothee 13y agoI had this idea too a few months ago. I had looked at lenticular sheets and other things but stopped thinking about it eventually, not sure why. (except for the fact that is what I usually do: I have an idea, think about it for a little bit, look at how it could be done and stop there :)) I think it was a combination of the price of the individual sheets (on Amazon at least) and the need for a high quality printer and assembly (the print and the lenticular sheet need to be perfectly aligned). I was imagining a cheap service to get memes into magnets for your fridge but the prices seemed not to match this vision. Working with artists like this site is doing is definitely a great idea. I had started trying to find a local printer but I don't think I found anybody fast enough for me not to move on to a different idea. Great work!
- roywiggins 13y agoThis looks fantastic. I make gifs out of pictures I take on burst mode and these would be beyond perfect for presenting them. (try it at a party, it's much more fun than static pictures, also for posed group shots) I'm waiting for flexible color solar-powered wireless e-ink displays to give the full "Harry Potter" moving-picture effect, but they're a few years out!
- jasonkostempski 13y agoGenius! Just one request. Crop a little off the left of the animation. I can't stop staring at the hair on that thumb. It's like watching tall grass sway in the wind.
- lubujackson 13y agoWHY OH WHY are there no Internet meme samples? I'd think Dramatic Chipmunk would be a shoo-in.
- garthdog 13y agoIt'd be nice if I could upload 10 PNG files so as to not be bound by the 256 color limitation of GIFs.
- jl6 13y agoHow good can this tech get? Could you print an ultra-high dpi image, put ultra-fine lenses over it, and turn it very slowly to get several minutes of video?
- nakedrobot2 13y agoYou have no pricing whatsoever on your site. I had to upload a gif just to see the prices. This is probably not ideal. I'd suggest adding a pricing page :)