This video shows every day scenes in a city, in the most impossibly awesome and freaky and mind-twisting way I can imagine. It’s the antithesis of the soothing time-lapses we are used to: a slit-scan ...

The trippy twist stretching across your screen is a doctored flower—though you won’t see this creation at a wedding reception anytime soon. Each spiral is a product of an editing technique called slit ...

Award-winning visual effects artist Douglas Trumbull died recently, leaving behind a body of memorable work including the slit-scan ‘Stargate’ sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But what is ...

Slit-scan photography works much like a rolling shutter does—the sensor continually collects image data but the shutter never actually closes, hence its use in determining a “photo finish”—whatever ...

A photo finish isn't just an illustrative expression. Some finishes in racing are so close that only photography is precise enough to determine the finishing order conclusively. A slit-scan camera ...