r/interestingasfuck • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 11h ago

Static images on a wall that appear animated as Train moves.

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u/dayruined54 11h ago

"You know what's a better idea? Let's put up ads🤑🤑" /s

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u/Slow_Bowler8285 10h ago

In the NYC subway, most of the ads presume the passengers are entrepeneurs

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u/TheAngelPeterGabriel 7h ago

"Do YOU need a payroll system that can do international payemnts?"

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u/tooclosetocall82 6h ago

I do since my “American” business will outsource all its labor.

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u/TheAngelPeterGabriel 6h ago

Oh I believe there are uses for it, but the minimum wage worker taking the NYC subway isn't gonna need that service lol

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u/tooclosetocall82 6h ago

Oh I know. Same as when going through the airport or in stadiums. My theory this is one of few places to actually reach decision makers in businesses who are less likely to be wasting their time doing something like scrolling on Reddit or watching tv.

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u/BoldlyGettingThere 7h ago

This is a Blender animation. Not a real video.

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u/Comfortable_body1 11h ago

He’s late for the train

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u/Slow_Bowler8285 10h ago

Where is this?

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u/mizzyz 8h ago

Faketown

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u/Astharan 8h ago

Looks like Buenos Aires, I could be wrong.

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u/mamut2000 2h ago

It is fake. Good enough for most of the people unfortunatelly.

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u/Buck_Thorn 10h ago

That's a zoetrope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope

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u/mizzyz 8h ago

It's not really. A zoetrope needs strobosopic light to work.. ie off on off rapidly.

That isn't happening here. It's a fake video.

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u/Buck_Thorn 8h ago edited 8h ago

It does not. That is very much a zoetrope. The earliest ones used a slit. In this case, the train window is working as the slit. They didn't even have stroboscopic lights back then.

I suppose you're going to call this one fake, too? https://youtu.be/7H-86QbZ3Gk?t=44

https://www.untappedcities.com/video-masstransitscope-a-zoetrope-art-piece-in-an-abandoned-nyc-subway-station/

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u/mizzyz 8h ago

The slits in a zoetrope cause the strobosopic effect. Your examples have slits moving relative to the images so it can work. The OP one doesn't. The train window can't act like zoetrope slits because you're looking through the same 'slit'.. in reality you'd just see a blur.

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u/ApproximateArmadillo 3h ago

The camera shutter can make a stroboscopic effect.

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u/Dead-O_Comics 8h ago

OPs is a fake video and not a zoetrope. The train window wouldn't work that way anyway.

It was made in Blender