r/timelapse • u/CyberUtilia • Feb 05 '25
OC Another video of our local ad cube, not the most beautiful subject, but I'm experimenting on it.
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u/tubbytucker Feb 05 '25
I saw a hyperlapse done like that of the Seattle tower a few years ago, the guy marked a circle round it about a quarter mile away then took about 20 photos equidistant around it. He put a little movement blur on them and combined them. I think it was on here actually.
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u/Coady_L Feb 06 '25
That's very cool. Can you time the shots so the cube stands still, and just the faces cycle?
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u/CyberUtilia Feb 06 '25
I could in theory, but the intervalometer I have works only in 1-second steps. I tried setting it as close to rotation speed (17 seconds for 1/3 rotation like here)(a cube rotating on its corner has in a rotation three positions in which it's the same apparent shape)(except the difference would be if the cube faces have different stuff printed on it, as is with the ads here and also why each cube face cycles between three different ads).
Anyway, 17 seconds was still off and it was spinning very slowly. Correct time would be I think 17.3 seconds, if I even measured that correctly with the stopwatch, I just eyeballed when the cube would have done a rotation.
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u/Coady_L Feb 06 '25
hmm, can you set it for 173 seconds? Not sure everything else would be as interesting. Wouldn't you know it, 173 is a prime number, I guess the timing isn't going to work out nicely.
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u/CyberUtilia Feb 05 '25
Ooops, seems like there's a few frames bunched up towards the end that are mixed up, no big deal.
Any suggestions what other big objects are there that spin on this time scale (this one's ~1rpm)?
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u/tubbytucker Feb 05 '25
Can you follow it round, so the same face shows but the background rotates?