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!
EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I think it's neat this service finally exists!
Before there were all kinds of GIFs, but mainly unedited direct frame sequences out of movie files, yet there was no need to keep the files small. Yet if you wanted to see them in your dashboard stream in their full animated glory, the GIFs had to be kept under that limit at all costs.
Creative workarounds were found (minimizing frames/short loops/masking out static parts of the image) to create outstanding rebloggable content worth sharing.
If tumblr didn't have that limit, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing the current GIF-renaissance, maybe reaction-GIFs, but for sure not stuff like:
iwdrm, mr. div, head like an orange
file under: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_limitation
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/04/17/_the_golden_f...
For example: http://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/
ffmpeg -i input.whatever frame-%04d.png
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.
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
You guys should consider doing affiliate deals with places like http://makeagif.com. (That's where I made my animated GIF in the first place.)
(Maybe you also snuck in "hopefully": http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/hopeful... )
We were just talking about this yesterday with some friends, and they put it nicely as "Language has no master"
Also, my handle is pronounced "James Luxury Yacht". Which is in turn pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove".
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!
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!
We even knocked over our camera while filming the shot referencing the BitBucket "Spooning" video: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/kickst... reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYBjVTMUQY0
Good luck to the team.
edit: awesome idea btw!
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!
Per pages like 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/ is cute product shipping soon: they might be interested in partnering (they've had ~2900 backers on Kickstarter)
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