The goal for this part of the project was to simulate the concept of Tilt Shift to generate miniaturized pictures. The process to create the miniture effect was as follows:
1. Select two points to indicate lower and upper bounds for focus area. This area is the image mask, and it sets the size of the depth of field (DOF) within the image. Everything outside of the mask will be increasingly blurred.
2. Create a size 8 gaussian stack of the image to simulate the effect of increased blurring.
3. Find the distance of each pixel in the image to the focus area and, based on thresholding, take pixels from the appropriate image in the gaussian stack and add them to the new image.
4. Increase final image saturation to intensify the effect.
Results are shown below. The last two images were taken by me.
Bells and Whistles: I took several pictures of a street intersection and generated a fake stop motion animation. The animation and a few of the photos used to make the animation are also shown below.
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The goal for this part of the project was to duplicate the Dolly zoom. The process of creating the vertigo effect involved stepping away from the target while zooming in to ensure that the target location and proportions stayed the same. Doing so simulated the experience of the background retreating from the target. The most difficult part was keeping the target size the same through each photo. I borrowed a friend's camera for this part of the project. Results are shown below. Bells and Whistles: I have made gifs of the vertigo sequences and are shown below.
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| Result 2: "Cheez It" Box | ||||
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