[HN Gopher] Straightened Trees
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       Straightened Trees
        
       Author : samizdis
       Score  : 90 points
       Date   : 2020-07-17 15:58 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | DoofusOfDeath wrote:
       | For some reason I get slightly nauseous when looking at those
       | photos, almost like they're giving me motion sickness. Weird.
        
       | sarah180 wrote:
       | I thought this was going to be about linked lists.
        
       | jluxenberg wrote:
       | In the same vein: https://3scape.com/pic/9767/Tilted-House-or-
       | Crooked-Street
        
       | Mejibyte wrote:
       | This is what I imagine being on magic mushrooms feels like.
        
       | tgv wrote:
       | My first thought was of course along the lines of "a flattened
       | n-ary tree representation", but no, it's about real trees, or
       | rather, pictures of them. Well worth a click.
        
         | lowmemcpu wrote:
         | This was my thought too! It took a while to load for me, so I
         | was even more surprised. Really clever art, and agreed that it
         | was worth the click
        
       | runxel wrote:
       | I would really love to see a technical breakdown and see how it
       | works, what his stack looks like, how the straigthening info is
       | put in, etc...
        
       | saagarjha wrote:
       | I'd like to see the trees before they were straightened...
        
         | EamonnMR wrote:
         | You could probably use the distorted backgrounds to reconstruct
         | the original photograph.
        
       | at_a_remove wrote:
       | I would like to see "Guilfoyle" but shot in a much wider format
       | and the "Kodak" business trimmed away.
        
       | advaita wrote:
       | Hugged to death(?)
       | 
       | Archive :
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20200717180537/http://danieltemk...
        
       | nateroling wrote:
       | Neat, but calling large format film "the only medium that
       | captures enough detail to straighten the tree without pixelly
       | artifacts" is silly.
       | 
       | Large format film is gorgeous and captures tons of detail, but
       | you could capture much, much more with a digital panorama.
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | Would this be a visual example of Derridan deconstruction?
        
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