A couple years ago I made a video called "Colors". This video came out of my interest in wanting to make something using slit scan. This is a very common and quite easy technique where basically something is photographed through a slit. For more information see Golan Levin's page about slit scan here. After spending some time trying to teach myself how quicktime works and how video is displayed on a modern computer, I finally ended up with Colors. Anyway, basically Colors PE (the personal edition version which is available below as both a binary and source) is a small application that will play any quicktime movie using a slit scan technique one line at a time starting from the top. Personally, for my version, I used it to play the movie Colors by Dennis Hopper (to play every color in the movie takes 33 days). So below is the program in case anyone is bored, has some time on their hands, and wants to try it at home. Disclaimer: This version requires some legwork to get working, FYI. Also is a video excerpt of what it looks like.
2. Video (excerpt)
...the actual video is about 33 days long...
3. Source Code
Here I have made available two different files. One is the Xcode project for Colors. This is the entire source Code using the "Open Frameworks" system. This one is for nerds who wanna play around with the code. The other file is just the run time binary (Osx) for semi-nerd who wants this at home. To run the second version:
1. Download the Colors PE Binary. (Intel Macintosh Application)
2. Get yourself Colors on DVD if you would like that version but note it can play any movie so knock yourself out, suggestions include "Stripes" (thx hanne), "The Color Purple", etc, etc, you get the idea.
3. Rip this movie to your hard-drive. I would suggest using Mac the Ripper (to get the movie on your drive), and then Mpeg Streamclip (to save it as a quicktime movie)
4. Rename the quicktime version of your movie you have put on your harddrive colorsall.mov, and place it in the same directory as the "Colors" app you have downloaded above in the Colors PE binary download.
