![]() I can’t tell you why this clicked, but it did. Now, I know to many, my wife included, the idea of hiking up and down the same trail time and again seems kinda crazy, and I can’t argue with that. We still traveled and took vacations, so I had plenty of days off, but whenever I was able, I did the hike. Weirdly, that never happened, and I kept going through the year, sometimes multiple times in a day. In fact, initially, my goal was just to hike every day until I got sick of it. Now, I had no intention of trying to do it thousands of times like the guy in the video. In my search for inspirado (warning, adult language), I’d stumbled upon something I found exciting, something that got me motivated. A trail that takes you straight up the mountain to a rock outcropping and some pretty spectacular views. In fact, there’s something like it a few minutes from my house. However, things like it exist all over the place. And, I mean, strictly speaking that’s true. ![]() What really struck me was the statement, and I’m paraphrasing, that nothing like the Manitou Incline exists anywhere else. So, as 2022 rolled around and I was staring at my phone, feeling sorry for myself, I happened upon this video on YouTube. I’m full of nervous energy that needs an outlet lest I go nuts. On top of the general cruddiness of 2021, it was an especially bad year personally, and the icing on the cake was the fact that my outlet for years, mountain biking, was no longer bringing me joy. I just couldn’t turn down the opportunity to verbally assault my computer screen because of something I didn’t understand or a version change that completely took a tutorial off the rails. I’m also a bit of a masochists when it comes trying new software. I was loosely familiar with Blender in the 3D world, so that could be why I was drawn to it. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline-modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.ĭespite “video editing” seemingly being an afterthought in that blurb I pulled from the Blender website, it turns out to be a capable tool that also happens to be free and open source. ![]() In truth, I was always going to use Blender, I just had to make half attempts at and subtly sabotage the other options as a way to convince myself to learn an entirely novel tool.īlender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. I also realized that using image-based tools, I was still going to have to use some sort of video editing software to create the time lapse. GIMP and Photoshop were straightforward, but the automated results weren’t great, and I got frustrated in my attempts to manually set target points. align_image_stack.exe produced weird results, and the lack of graphic interface was frustrating. ![]() I had options galore, and I tried a few of them. I always walk away from a SO sesh feeling smarter while simultaneously feeling like I don’t know anything about anything. For instance, “smooth large series of pictures of the same thing” was entirely unhelpful, but “align images time lapse” resulted in a bunch of quality links, and ultimately led me to my favorite place for technical smarts, Stack Overflow. Often, the crux of learning how to do a new thing online is proper search terminology. And, regardless if I’d done everything perfectly from the start, even the smallest changes that come from not using a tripod make for a pretty jumpy time lapse, so I wanted to find a way to align the images to smooth the end result, even if just a little bit. I learned early-on that they weren’t as similar as I’d hoped, which wasn’t a complete surprise as it took me some time to fine-tune my shooting spot and the landmarks I’d use in the grid on my phone. Going into the new year, I had a folder full of pictures of roughly the same scene that I wanted to turn into a time lapse. Smooth Large Series of Pictures of the Same Thing
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