Time displacement. Documented in the Adobe CS6 manual in 2012; older digital precursors.
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Time Displacement: official Adobe demonstration, single image.Adobe, After Effects documentation.View source ↗
Prompt
Apply a Time Displacement effect, depicting different regions of the subject at slightly different implied moments of movement. Introduce sliced offsets, flowing contour distortions, and staggered movement phases across limbs or silhouettes, with transitions following broad tonal bands rather than simple transparent duplicates. Keep the original subject and composition.
Atime displacement map determines which point in time of aclip becomes visible at aspecific position in the frame. Adobe documented the effect in the 2012 After Effects CS6 manual, describing aneutral gray value as well as negative and positive time offsets. Asmooth gradient creates continuous distortions; stepped maps divide the image into time segments. The year 2012 serves as averifiable documentation reference point, not apurported invention. The similarity to slit scanning aids understanding but does not replace the historical distinction.
Distinction
Unlike spatial displacement scanning, this method shifts the scanning time. It is digitally programmable; aphysical slot camera is not required.
Aftermath
Time is treated like aspatially paintable material.
Further examples · 7 images
02Stevemann selfportrait home-made slit-shutter camera1992A face is repeated and distorted in a horizontal sequence. This result demonstrates the visual outcome of time-based scanning, where movement relative to the capture axis creates multiple temporal phases in one frame.Glogger · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons03Leaving Bergamo. Glitch artwork of „The Art Of Surviving One Day On Planet Earth In 2017“ and the artvideo "Surviving The Purple Prophecy", Horizontal bands show different moments of a street scene simultaneously. The stepped segments create a disjointed temporal map, effectively dividing the moving image into distinct time slices.Lasemainecomtoise in real life the artist Joseph Ayerle · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons04Sowavey architecture analog skyporn ＃glitch ＃nofilter burning hours before Amtrak 2 Chicago ＃shadowtravel show! (j bizzie) 2014-06-04The building's roof appears wavy due to motion during a scan. This continuous distortion demonstrates how a smooth temporal gradient shifts pixels in time relative to their spatial position.j bizzie from MINNEAPOLIS, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons05Waving goodbye (Fluzwup)A hand shows wavy distortions caused by movement across a scanning sensor. This illustrates the visual result where different spatial rows correspond to different moments in time.Unknown · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons06The unique technical set up created to generate the images for Chel White's animated short film Choreography for Copy MachineThe apparatus shows a person moving against a moving scanner light. This physical process creates a time-displaced image, where the subject's position changes relative to the scan's temporal progress.Chel White · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons07AI illustration: A dancer appears with horizontal distortions where different rows of the A dancer appears with horizontal distortions where different rows of the image represent different moments. A luminance map shifts the time of pixels along the Y-axis to visualize movement through time.Illustration generated for the Atlas (AI)
Question
What happens with a monochrome gray time-displacement map?
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All positions receive the same time offset. Aneutral gray leaves the image unchanged in terms of time.
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