Help I accidentally a wigglegram(lmao.center)
293 points by gregsadetsky 2 days ago | 65 comments
tl;dr: A photographer realized their habit of taking many near-identical shots from slightly different angles had accidentally produced years of raw material for "wigglegrams" (stereoscopic GIF loops). They wrote a script using perceptual hashing and Hamming distance to scan their iCloud library, find clusters of similar images, and auto-stitch them into wigglegrams. The script is on GitHub and works with Mac iCloud libraries or any image directory.
HN Discussion:
  • Sharing related tools or libraries for stereoscopic/pseudo-3D visualization
  • Appreciation for the website design, dithering aesthetics, and hand-written (non-AI) code
  • The wigglegram effect actually reduces depth illusion and looks like disjointed animation
  • Mentions of similar motion-capturing alternatives like phone Top Shot features or short videos
  • Interest in using the script to handle large personal photo libraries with duplicates