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Rolling Shutter Wobble

video & glitch

Typeface · Tourney

Atlas demonstration: the free source photo and the computed Rolling Shutter Wobble. The Golden Gate Bridge stands over the San Francisco Bay as evening lights illuminate the city. The rigid steel suspension cables and towers are transformed into fluid, oscillating waves that snake across the frame.
Atlas demonstration: the free source photo and the computed Rolling Shutter Wobble. The Golden Gate Bridge stands over the San Francisco Bay as evening lights illuminate the city. The rigid steel suspension cables and towers are transformed into fluid, oscillating waves that snake across the frame.Image: Jan Senderek jansenderek · CC0 (via Wikimedia Commons), processed for the AtlasView source ↗

Prompt

Apply Rolling Shutter Wobble, bending vertical structures into soft gelatinous curves and diagonally skewed segments. Vary horizontal displacement progressively between image rows, creating stretched contours and uneven leaning shapes without adding blur or changing the existing colors and lighting. Keep the original subject and composition.

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Identify

Straight, vertical shapes in the video appear to bend, stretch, or warp diagonally like soft gelatin.

Principle

This happens when a camera records an image line by line rather than capturing the entire scene at once. Fast movement during this sequential scanning1 distorts the final frame2.

Try it out

Look for slanted telephone poles or warped airplane propellers to spot this effect.

Classification

Calculated image processing result.

Further examples · 9 images

Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Close-up of a fledgling (Unsplash)”
02 Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Close-up of a fledgling (Unsplash)”A small bird is perched near the edge of a structure against a soft-focus background. The bird's neck and the surrounding landscape are pulled into a dramatic, rubbery zig-zag pattern.Saurabh Sarkar ilivegrunge (photo); processed for the Atlas · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Violet flowers on a table (Unsplash)”
03 Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Violet flowers on a table (Unsplash)”A white decorative vase holding purple flowers sits upon a wooden table surface. The vase and the flowers appear to melt sideways as if they were made of liquid gelatin.Brigitte Tohm brigittetohm (photo); processed for the Atlas · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Eiffel Tower at night (Unsplash)”
04 Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Eiffel Tower at night (Unsplash)”The Eiffel Tower is captured at night, glowing against a completely black sky. The entire structure bends in an impossible, serpentine wave from top to bottom.Arnaud Papa arnaudpapa (photo); processed for the Atlas · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Yellow Think Coffee neon (Unsplash)”
05 Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Yellow Think Coffee neon (Unsplash)”A city street scene features a brick building above a coffee shop with people and cars in front. Every vertical edge, from the window frames to the people, is warped into a repetitive rhythmic curve.Patrick Tomasso impatrickt (photo); processed for the Atlas · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “People at car show (Unsplash)”
06 Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “People at car show (Unsplash)”A row of colorful cars is parked outdoors with their hoods popped open during a car show. The flags and light poles in the background are transformed into thin, squiggly lines that snake upward.Parker Gibbs parkergibbsmccullough (photo); processed for the Atlas · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Two dogs playing on the beach (Unsplash)”
07 Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Two dogs playing on the beach (Unsplash)”Two thin hounds engage in play across a sandy shore under a bright sky. The bodies of the dogs appear to ripple with a gelatinous motion, pulling their limbs into unnatural curves.Mark Galer markgaler (photo); processed for the Atlas · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “A footprint in the snow (Unsplash)”
08 Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “A footprint in the snow (Unsplash)”Light snow covers a field of grass, creating a textured surface of white and green. A rhythmic swaying distortion travels through the center of the image, bending the blades of grass into concentric arcs.Paul Green pgreen1983 (photo); processed for the Atlas · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Pfeiffer Beach at Dusk (Unsplash)”
09 Rolling Shutter Wobble, applied to “Pfeiffer Beach at Dusk (Unsplash)”Rugged rock formations frame a narrow beach where the tide washes over dark sand. The solid stone cliffs seem to wobble like liquid, exhibiting a distinct s-curve distortion along their vertical edges.Kace Rodriguez kace (photo); processed for the Atlas · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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