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Long Video War Game Exposures by Decius at 11:54 pm EST, Feb 18, 2007
A set of long exposures that were taken while playing video war games of the 80's, created by Atari, Centuri & Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while playing the games. By recording each second of an entire game on 1 frame of film, captured complex patterns were captured not normally seen by the naked eye. Fantastic! Where can I get prints?
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RE: Long Video War Game Exposures
by Hijexx at 12:29 am EST, Feb 20, 2007

Decius wrote:
Fantastic! Where can I get prints?

I was wondering the same thing, would love to have a print for my studio. This Tempest one is the best by far, but man I'd kill for a Robotron one :) I like the concept in general. If she isn't actually selling prints this shouldn't be too hard to replicate with a good film camera. Digitals probably cause too much CCD or CMOS noise over long exposures to be useful for this.

Did you see what Dan Kaminsky did with audio visualizers? Basically took sequences of video frames and made volumetric data sets out of them ala CT/MRI scans. I think it'd be rad to take old school vector games like Tempest and give that the treatment, then flip the resulting data around ala Eddie Elliot's Video Streamer. You may remember Eddie's work being published in the first Wired magazine. Now he gives the source away for free, pretty cool

Long Video War Game Exposures
by Hijexx at 12:18 am EST, Feb 17, 2007

A set of long exposures that were taken while playing video war games of the 80's, created by Atari, Centuri & Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while playing the games. By recording each second of an entire game on 1 frame of film, captured complex patterns were captured not normally seen by the naked eye.

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Neato.

Long Video War Game Exposures
by Rattle at 2:34 pm EST, Feb 19, 2007

A set of long exposures that were taken while playing video war games of the 80's, created by Atari, Centuri & Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while playing the games. By recording each second of an entire game on 1 frame of film, captured complex patterns were captured not normally seen by the naked eye.

Awesome. The included image is from Tempest. I could tell the second I saw it. Tempest is one of the coolest video games ever.

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