Photographer shoots using a ring of 100 pinhole cameras

[Tony Egan]

I thought this was fascinating:

http://petapixel.com/2016/01/29/photographer-shoots-bullet-time-using-a-ring-of-100-pinhole-cameras/

 

[AgX]

What does "bullet time animations" mean?

 

[Mick Fagan]

What does "bullet time animations" mean?

I have no idea, but I would love to have that darkroom.

Very interesting concept and showing the whole process really makes one appreciate just how much work has gone into it.

Those pops from the flashes were blinding, and going on the intensity of the pop, they were probably running full discharge each time, talk about blinding everyone there.

Mick.

 

[Newt_on_Swings]

What does "bullet time animations" mean?

It's taken from the matrix movie where Neo dodges the bullets in slow motion that agent smith shoots at him. The camera revolves around the subject to capture it. Also a popular video game made use of it called max Payne.

 

[bsdunek]

What does "bullet time animations" mean?

This is from the comments:
The bullet time effect was originally achieved photographically by a set of still cameras surrounding the subject. The cameras are fired sequentially, or all at the same time, depending on the desired effect. Single frames from each camera are then arranged and displayed consecutively to produce an orbiting viewpoint of an action frozen in time or as hyper-slow-motion. This technique suggests the limitless perspectives and variable frame rates possible with a virtual camera. However, if the still array process is done with real cameras, it is often limited to assigned paths.

So, now the mud is a little clearer - more like coffee (from the
caffinol I guess).

 

[MattKing]

Courtesy of Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time

The term "bullet time" is a registered trademark of Warner Bros., formally established in March 2005, in connection with the video game The Matrix Online.[2] The term had first been used within the original script of the 1999 film The Matrix,[3] and later in reference to the slow motion effects in the 2001 video game Max Payne.[4][5] In the years since the introduction of the term during The Matrix films it has become a vastly applied expression in popular culture.

Think of those high speed shot/slow motion viewed photographs that show the details of a bullet in flight.