Difference between revisions of "Talk:381: Mobius Battle"
(This trick is easy to do with 16mm cine film.) |
|||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
Technically, there's only one guy. He passes through the comic twice for every one time the ball passes through. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.167|199.27.128.167]] 20:37, 17 December 2013 (UTC) | Technically, there's only one guy. He passes through the comic twice for every one time the ball passes through. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.167|199.27.128.167]] 20:37, 17 December 2013 (UTC) | ||
| + | |||
| + | The explanation says "[the projectionist] would have no way to feed a Mobius strip film reel properly into a normal projector." That depends on how you define "normal". I just tried this on my grandfather's 16mm cine (film) and it worked fine. I cut ~300 frames from the start of a movie, twisted 180°, and spliced. Since my projector loads from the side it went in no problem and I used empty takeup reels to hold the loops. This wouldn't work on 8mm, though, cause the holes are only on one side. Can't speak to 35mm or IMAX film; I suspect not, because they have soundtracks, but I don't know for sure. Oh, I just thought of something to try with my 16mm loop; if I cut it in half lengthwise I should have a 600 half-frame 8mm loop, right? I'm not gonna try 'cause I don't have any way to cut down the middle in an exact enough way but that would be cool to try. Oh, and isn't it spelt Möbius? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.213|173.245.54.213]] 03:15, 13 January 2015 (UTC) | ||
Latest revision as of 03:15, 13 January 2015
The gif should alternate left/right in order to properly portray the battle. 184.66.160.91 06:48, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
- Look again, it does already! --83.243.48.2 08:20, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Technically, there's only one guy. He passes through the comic twice for every one time the ball passes through. 199.27.128.167 20:37, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
The explanation says "[the projectionist] would have no way to feed a Mobius strip film reel properly into a normal projector." That depends on how you define "normal". I just tried this on my grandfather's 16mm cine (film) and it worked fine. I cut ~300 frames from the start of a movie, twisted 180°, and spliced. Since my projector loads from the side it went in no problem and I used empty takeup reels to hold the loops. This wouldn't work on 8mm, though, cause the holes are only on one side. Can't speak to 35mm or IMAX film; I suspect not, because they have soundtracks, but I don't know for sure. Oh, I just thought of something to try with my 16mm loop; if I cut it in half lengthwise I should have a 600 half-frame 8mm loop, right? I'm not gonna try 'cause I don't have any way to cut down the middle in an exact enough way but that would be cool to try. Oh, and isn't it spelt Möbius? 173.245.54.213 03:15, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
