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Working on a demo for the MPE system consisting a grid of cells, each playing the film Run Lola Run at 60×32 pixels. Each cell is one frame behind (or ahead) of its left (or right) neighbor. The idea here is to ultimately have enough pixel space to display the entire movie all at once (much like Brendan Dawes’ Cinema Redux), only in motion. Too bad this is quite a blatant copyright violation.
(Special thanks goes to Chris Kairalla for suggesting “Run Lola Run” as the source content.)
6 Responses to “Run Lola, Ruuuuuuuuuuuuun!”
- 1 Pingback on Mar 30th, 2007 at 11:25 am
- 2 Pingback on Sep 15th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
That’s super hot Dan. I always run out of memory whenever I play around with that sort of time-slicing, because I try and load an entire movie into ram before playing it back. That way, I can pull each frame on the fly. Do you have the whole movie in memory at 60 x 43?
Well, my little post here is hiding a deep, dark secret that I am getting some memory errors and crashing after running for 5 or 10 minutes. And this is even with running the app on 3 Mac Pros with 8gb of RAM each. However, I do not load all of the frames of the movie into RAM, I simply hold onto the ones that I need by grabbing the \”current\” frame of the movie and shifting everything around. The six displays show 3,264 frames at a time. At 24 fps, this is a little over 2 minutes of the movie at once. So I just need, say, 200 or so more screens to show all 130,000 frames of the move. I suppose if I made the cells 30×16 I would only need around 45 screens. And, 15×8, just 15 screens. There we go!
I can’t help with the technical difficulties, but I will say that, had you made this unrecognizable, under previous interpretations of the law this *wouldn’t* necessarily be a violation. There had been some common-sense protections for derivative works based on the size of the infringement and recognizability of the source that have since been erased by an increasingly liberal interpretation of the courts. I can certainly say that with audio sampling. But yes, generally, not a good legal path to tread.
Of course, you can always feed a public domain movie into this. Some great monster flicks come to mind.
Just to note another static film-as-one-frame albeit in C and as a commandline application:
jekyll: http://1010.co.uk/2006.02.11.html#2
ap/xxxxx
(used in the first instance to compare eight alternately censored versions of Walerian Borowczyk’s Docteur Jekyll et les Femmes)