{"id":3387,"date":"2009-05-16T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2009-05-16T05:26:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T09:26:18","slug":"houston-ship-channel-time-lapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3387","title":{"rendered":"Houston Ship Channel Time Lapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video is very simple, but I found it to be oddly captivating.  The time lapse of a big ship like this gives a better sense of how it moves, in a way you just can&#8217;t see when watching it creep along in real time.  <\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DiwP-DZ8B0c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DiwP-DZ8B0c'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I love the 0:27 mark, when the tug opens up and pulls away.  It looks like the enterprise going into warp at this speed.<\/p>\n<p>The sidebar says that  this was done by taking a photograph once every six seconds.  Assuming the video was then made by simply mapping one photograph to one frame of video (which is by no means certain) and assuming the video was made at 30fps (was also isn&#8217;t certain) then 1 second of video would represent 3 minutes of activity.  That&#8217;s a compression factor of 180:1, which means that the three minutes of visible activity would represent&#8230; nine hours?  <\/p>\n<p>That sounds wrong to me, but I honestly have no idea.  Either way, it&#8217;s fun.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyoteblog.com\/coyote_blog\/2009\/05\/awsome-video.html\">Via.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is very simple, but I found it to be oddly captivating. The time lapse of a big ship like this gives a better sense of how it moves, in a way you just can&#8217;t see when watching it creep along in real time. Link (YouTube) I love the 0:27 mark, when the tug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}