What if we made a camera that sees in reverse?

[@StuffMadeHere]

If you’re interested in messing around with data from the camera I’ll be posting some of the raw data for these pictures on my Patreon: patreon.com/stuffmadehere. Also, THANK YOU to all the patrons who support these projects!

[@Keenora]

Ohhh new video, I am down! x3

[@Lavassin]

He made stuff

[@dogefort8410]

What's the key benefits of Patreon membership again? 🤔

[@Basement_CNC]

Who needs drugs when you can have engineering???? I DO.... It's called coffee and red bull.....I'd also go for something stronger and less legal, but I've already blown my budget on the parts of the engineering project 😂

[@ikesau]

i am so grateful that you continue to defy the incentives to make "lightning vs laser" videos or whatever. gonna finally sign up to your patreon now to hopefully help keep it that way 🤞

[@smartereveryday]

When you made the real life Orthographic Photo I was so happy for you. That's a huge deal. Awesome video!

[@drhxa]

Agreed, this one is HUGE! Very impressive result, congrats!

[@quertz42]

There is an amazing video by Applied Science where he plays around with an actual physical lens that does the same!: watch?v=iJ4yL6kaV1A

[@aargourdin]

Incredible and has some pretty interesting implications for how the Nth iteration of this camera could be utilized. So cool!

[@BojanMilic84]

Yo, Destin, shouldn't you be blowing something up? Why are you wasting time on YT? Just kidding, love your stuff.

[@garystarnes5178]

Destin. You are the reason I found his channel. Both of you are awesome!

[@nerfherder4284]

I wonder if your camera could be used to simulate what animals with different shaped irises would see such as horses, goats or cats, or octopuses.

[@MattH-wg7ou]

Interesting idea!

[@liftchampion]

Top idea!

[@CapnDumbass]

Solid idea

[@vennic]

You had me at nerf herder

[@psychic_wolf]

This is a GREAT idea!

[@Benlucky13]

if anyone else was curious, the transimpedance amplifier he talks about at 10:25 is listed at $537.91. I can see why he wanted to build his own

[@sometimesleela5947]

A cheap source of these is old supermarket checkout scanners. I used to get lots of these from the scrapyard to harvest the lasers and driver modules, but they're probably on the auction sites. The photodiode sits right on the amp board inside a shield. Great for making laserbounce listeners with just a simple lm386 audio amp added.

[@turbochoochoo]

Id argue that's a pretty good deal considering the cost of his time.

[@BooBar2521]

Haha I even paused to check if there was a price

[@InservioLetum]

...hang on there's a machine to impede trans people?

[@zilfondel]

Is that a real word?

[@scubat5360]

>Camera that sees behind stuff >Camera lens peeks behind the stuff

[@ArchangelExile]

Lol, I was thinking the same thing.

[@NateD77]

True, but it is also pretty interesting that the image of him just about looked like a straight on photo even though it is peeking around from the sides and never a straight on view.

[@matthewcartermusic]

@@NateD77 I came here to say this. Still a cool achievement!

[@encycl0pediaman]

That's what I thought but it's not as simple as just looking over and taking one big picture, it's the fact they all come together and as one person here said. Makes it one straight in image. But yes I too thought the camera would somehow curve around and look behind a wall

[@GOREMAXXX]

stop typing like that, this isnt 4chan

[@VenseyNess]

All you need to see around walls is a dense enough object to perform gravitational lensing. Can your CNC work on singularities?

[@MrBubmer]

Don't give him ideas, next thing we'll know is there's an apocalyptic event at a warehouse

[@BlueGamingRage]

Bending light is a solution

[@a64738]

Or just use mirrors and make a periscope...

[@SkinnyObelix]

or a window

[@cyanhacker]

Brick is dense enough to hit the wall

[@falalaffel]

"There are a finite number of issues, and then eventually it works." Having a rough time with an engineering project right now and that was really good to hear. It's been true many times before, and it'll be true this time. Awesome work.

[@souptikb7]

IKR. When I heard him say the line, I thought this should be every engineer's mantra

[@HenryAlexander-i4p]

This time last year I considered crypto without much knowledge and decided to have a consultation with a fiduciary, and it was incredibly insightful. I got into the market with 15k, One year and a couple of months in, and I'm up with 550k. I truly cannot stress enough how helpful experts in this field are!

[@katypatyDieguezz]

how do y'all even make so much from crypto trading?

[@katypatyDieguezz]

Market behavior can be complex and unpredictable. Mind if I ask you to recommend this particular advisor to whom you have used their services?

[@pascualMiguel-k8f]

I'm new to cryptocurrency and don't understand how it really works. how Can someone know the right approach to investing and making good profits from cryptocurrency investments?

[@bobbylox]

It's so funny that the answer to "How can you see around walls?" is essentially "put the camera on a stick so that it peeks around the sides of the wall." lol

[@dan1ar]

yeah, i guess the most impressive things in this video ware perspective stuff

[@MisterJackTheAttack]

Yeah, it saw around the wall the same way you see around a small sticky note placed between your eyes.

[@arielmorandy8189]

You didnt demonstrate that you can see “behind” walls. You put the camera on a stick.. LOL.

[@igorsvacic217]

basically yes. Its move camera arround. The overengeneered version. But non the less, its crazy what he achieved here.

[@jayd00k]

Or just use WiFi

[@stickfiftyfive]

Woow. That was all amazing. 1. The device itself. 2. The genius in your idea of making it in the first place, and then actually doing it. 3. The patience of a non-mortal in error handling and problem solving to achieve said end. 4. The pictures themselves. 5. Your *amazing* talent at concise but brief explanations of the basic concepts you're working in here. Bravo good sir.. blown away 💥

[@justinsalazar4952]

One more thing, when he said she looks like Thomas the Tank.

[@ElectroBOOM]

Awesome as always!!

[@fnaf1sout907]

Yoooooo sup Electro

[@mufasaiam7794]

Engineers of KZbin, assemble

[@user-kg9po8es6r]

Hello :D

[@SeyedMansour27]

missed opportunity "Brilliant as always!!" :D

[@Bjrn-nv3ie]

On my way to watch your new video father electron

[@CharlieKellyEsq]

I know it takes a REALLY long time to create your projects and edit them. But I'm going to need you to take stimulants, stay up 72 hours per day and pump out one of these every 3 or 4 days

[@drake1636]

He already does

[@artiumromanov9798]

Crazy comment. Hilarious too

[@MrCandyPants]

He owes it to humanity

[@MonkeMan54]

Definitely

[@Vik1919]

​@@MrCandyPants He owes nothing. You need to contribute instead, he's already doing it by being himself.

[@danny2667]

"Medusa whack-a-mole, where you fix a problem and two more appear" You got your mythological creatures mixed up. You were thinking of a hydra ;)

[@BarrytheSuperScot]

I immediately paused the video and came to the comments to see if anyone caught that! 🤣

[@Josh-qm7fl]

@@BarrytheSuperScot Same xD

[@NOTNOTJON]

'Like playing Medusa whack-a-mole where you fix one problem and it proptly truns some part of your project into stone and eventually all the problems in your project are heavy weights you drag over the finish line.' Is what I think he meant.

[@Derixyleth]

@@Josh-qm7fl Also same lol

[@Galerak1]

Hail Hydra

[@asymmetricfuzion970]

1 minute in. Your description of how a camera works. 10/10. Never thought of it like that and proof of the concept of "if you can't explain something complex to a child you don't understand it well enough yourself"

[@Spirit532]

Fun fact: all of these wacky lenses simulated in this video actually exist, and are widely used in manufacturing and inspection! Telecentric(no perspective) lenses are most common and very popular in metrology, but pericentric(seeing more than one side of the object), hypercentric(seeing behind and/or underneath the object), and even wacky combinations with mirrors. This allows you, as a common example, to inspect the cap on a plastic bottle from all sides, at the same time, using the same camera. Above, around the corners, from the side, AND from below!

[@evanbarnes9984]

Shane used a telecentric lens on the puzzle robot!

[@The_NSeven]

These lenses are so cool. If only they could easily (and cheaply) be adapted to digital cameras.

[@LenovoIdeaPad3]

i need an example

[@genesises]

@@evanbarnes9984 it's almost as if you watched the video

[@ivanjermakov]

Yep, it's just hard to apply on normal-life-sized objects because this would requite aperture to be meters in diameter.

[@sebastiankranz4306]

You think u studied engineering and did photography for half a dozen year, u know a lil something about optics. And then this guy comes around and proves you wrong. Honestly amazing work, I look forward to each and every video of you. Thank you for making engineering and mint so interesting.

[@Ibrahim-rc8sn]

Where did you study , you must be dumb

[@x0urce942]

We definetly need a StuffMadeHere2 video about how you even came up with the idea and how you went from nonsense to actual Images @11:56 There are a lot of questionst that, as you said, went unanswered

[@stuartallen2001]

Maybe it could be called StuffMadeThere?

[@willierants5880]

@@stuartallen2001 Good one.

[@teemukarjalainen5361]

My guess is there was some bug with the code mapping angle sensor output to real world position. About the idea I'm betting he was pondering one day what would it take to make a real life ortho camera. I sure have pondered the same but quickly thought it must be impossible. This still baffles me though that it seemed to work so well. How far can you see with the thing? what if you point it a mile away? What if you point it to the moon (assuming there was so super accurate rig to keep it pointed at the same spot on moon surface?

[@Stirdix]

@@teemukarjalainen5361 I'd think the primary limitation is the angular resolution, determined by the length of your tube - keeping in mind also that a longer tube is a narrower field of view, hence less light and therefore noisier. [And also, at least if you actually look at the moon, atmospheric distortions.]

[@helper_bot]

seems like it was just warped and the equations didnt line up if he was using a still image pattern wall for debugging instead of an actual wall, could've probably debug it easier

[@TheSlicingSword]

the way you can describe everything in such an understandable way with simple drawings is amazing. ur drawings (and/or whatever software ur using) is so satisfying

[@jakobfink6007]

There’s absolutely no other KZbin channel that I look forward to as much as this one! The content here is simply outstanding, the quality is unmatched, and the way complex topics are presented in such an engaging and fascinating way is truly remarkable. Every new video feels like a gift, and I can’t wait for the next one to drop. This channel isn’t just entertaining; it’s a genuine contribution to society. Incredible work, keep it up!

[@john-davidgerard2219]

I agree!

[@charlottelanvin7095]

Mate! There's the outback edition @ididathing 😂

[@wormangel]

this is the first video I watch from this channel and I'm just WOW

[@japuma630]

This, MyMechanic and Primitive Technology

[@PrescottJackson]

Seriously, incredible work. I’ve no idea how he’s found the time to do everything he has already done.

[@aJaklin]

15:08 sick album cover

[@MetalShopBuilds]

ya

[@NotGabe001]

that was my first thought for the first color photo

[@osmium7738]

That's exactly what I thought, lol

[@pablogriswold421]

v a p o r w a v e

[@nauga2295]

I was coming to comments to say that exact same thing.

[@amarug]

I have a PhD in mechanical engineering and watching your channel really itches every scratch that made me go for engineering in the first place. One of the last remaining channels where I watch every second of every new upload without a second of distraction. Absolutely impressive every time. You say "the unsatisfying answer is a lot of math an science". I must say, just thinking about the whole code that takes the voltage readings and then transforms it into a pixel image using the kinematics of your motion gives me butterflies. I will never forget when I visited a Computer Vision lecture and the Prof. one day showed us the inversion of the Radon transform that created the foundation for CT scanners. He also had this gift to make every lecture like a tense thriller, but this one really left me so speechless, I it took me 10min to find my jaw on the floor again... Till this day it makes me happy just thinking about it sometimes. Math as a tool for engineering can be DEEPLY satisfying. :))

[@oz_jones]

"Who needs drugs when you have engineering" might have been half a joke but it's actually a pretty raw truth. And I'm not even that much into engineering.

[@leocurious9919]

If only he would actually show all of these things instead of just talking about it and showing the end result.

[@hraefn1821]

You most definitely hafve the heart, soul and mind of an engineer through and through. I'm grateful for people like you~

[@sfmc98]

Who was your professor?

[@owene2530]

Atches every scritch*

[@zakmartin]

So... you did not, in fact, make a camera that can see behind objects.

[@InformatrIIcks]

You pretend to be clairvoyant and then post this comment ? Is that a compliment? This camera is more impressive than all of your "talents" combined.

[@sodmade9446]

Him dropping a video is almost like Christmas. It immediately makes my day at least a bit better

[@petertomasini3294]

Same

[@VicJang]

JCS Criminal Psychology dropped a video on the same day too. Today is insane.

[@spaced5155]

stop the glaze poof

[@13donstalos]

I also find Xmas to be rather unsatisfying

[@brannon5688]

"Who needs drugs when you have engineering" lol I absolutely love it xD

[@9000ft]

Shh...they'll they will ban creativity next.🤫

[@DaxCyro]

I felt that one. Some of the stuff I've worked on has felt like teetering on the edge of madness. And Stuff Made Here works on even crazier stuff than me.

[@Madfox88]

“Why not both?”

[@xWood4000]

I need coffee for my engineering

[@mrbdmnable]

Merch!

[@sebastiansteffen4554]

This project can not stop with this video. Dont start a next one yet, instead have some fun with the camera and do a second vid. The picture turn out too nice to put it aside now

[@fred700]

Completely agreed! I would love some more orthogonal perspectives captured in the outside world - like buildings, streets, different objects, ... There must be so much to discover with this cam !

[@dwergmeneer2419]

​@@fred700building would be hard to fotograph because the arm would have to be as big as the building

[@aceman0000099]

I want to see a landscape photo!

[@Siberius-]

NOPE! in the trash! (or DEEP-storage), the content train must move along! Don't worry, this stop can be circled back around to in a couple years if it makes sense for the algorithm 👍

[@noturmom]

13:13 I was using blender and thought "is an orthographic camera even possible?" I went on KZbin looking for answers, and here I am. This is awesome.

[@mploehrer]

14:07 You blew my mind with that image. I just paused the video and thought for a long time before resuming. Incredible work.

[@ultralysp]

I think this image made me realize what perspective really is. I’ve had my share of decades in this life, so it’s a big deal to have a smart person explain complex things in a simple way!

[@Verchiel_]

He krilled styro pyro Styro pyro has been reduced to mannequin

[@Dasspapirfly]

Had the same experience, just sitting and thinking and then looking around in the office and trying to visualise how it would look without perspective

[@rooknado]

I concur. It only gets crazier!

[@pumbaa667]

Same. And then the one at 14:45 blew each previous mind-particles again.

[@jesuizanmich]

The orthographic photo is basically an orthophotomosaic, but you're stitching points instead of entire orthophotos. This is really cool. Google Earth is basically the same thing; the swinging arm is gravitational orbit and the camera is a satellite. So it's basically simulating an orthographic camera that's a spherical shell around the Earth. These are really useful for making maps and getting the direct relative size of things without having to compute a simulation of it virtually. I haven't heard of them used in any engineering field, but I imagine being able to produce the orthographic projection of any real life object without simulating it would be quite useful.

[@WizardofoOZeAU]

Yes, the clever bit is stitching all of the data together in a realistic simulacrum. Light travels in straight lines, but the receiver isn't necessarily constrained by that.

[@jdm3asy897]

I got no idea what you are talking about, i don't understand images you show, but when you started to play with perspective my mind blown... You earned a sub and a like

[@gk5947]

11:39 wait, isn't the hydra the creature that grows back their heads?

[@fikus7879]

That's what i wanted to say!

[@Jack93885]

Yup, Medusa was the mortal Gorgon (a creature that can turn people who look at them to stone) who was killed by Perseus

[@Bassalicious]

not just grow back - grow back more than it lost

[@wretchedexcess1654]

Dammit an hour too slow...

[@tolkienfan1972]

I had decided not to point this out. 😂

[@Ravin428]

You should use this camera to film some basic shapes like cubes, cylinders and cones to make a education video for teaching perspective. It could be super useful for art classes and drafting classes.

[@RFC3514]

Basic shapes are easy to draw (or 3D render) with varying perspective anyway. The point of making a camera that can do this is so you can play with perspective in "real" (complex) scenes. Anyway, this isn't new. Search for "Hypercentric optics: A camera lens that can see behind objects" for a video published by Applied Science a few years ago (smaller lens, but it's the same principle and works in real time).

[@dykm2]

I was hoping to see 5 sides of a cube all at once

[@robertschwien6396]

You may want to use a first surface mirror if you're not already doing so. I used to make machine vision applications and if the camera angle needed to be changed. Using a regular mirror would result in the primary image from the reflective surface on the back of the glass, and a second ghost image reflected from the front of the glass.

[@moos5221]

what would it be like, just a highly polished metal sheet without glass?

[@RFC3514]

@@moos5221 - Can be, or sometimes silvered glass but you put the silvered surface on the front (i.e., use the glass just as a substrate, so you only need a very thin layer of deposed metal).

[@bluerendar2194]

@@moos5221 Glass behind metal instead of metal behind glass Reason why it isn't usually done, the glass protects the metal for one, also it's much easier to make flat glass surfaces (and deposit metal, making the metal contacting it flat) than making flat metal surfaces

[@moos5221]

@@RFC3514 @bluerendar2194 ok, understood, makes sense.

[@stevenpolak4801]

Those are common in laser applications too, like lasercutters. Preventing heat buildup in the glass

[@Szczezam]

11:50 is a Mantra in itself. When you're feeling overwhelmed and nothing is working yet sometimes you need to keep going. What is the most important step one can take? The next one. Great video! The stuff you end up creating is awesome and I love seeing your process. Thanks for doing what you do!

[@douglaspcoelho4432]

I graduated in Engineering in 2015, but for nearly 10 years I have been working and teaching Photography! I was SO excited watching this video! Damn, I would love to be able to be there with you and test some crazy shots I have always wanted to do, but never had that machine to do it. Cheers!

[@g_way]

It's always so exciting to find a video that's your exact bread and butter. I love finding people that are the same flavor of nerd as I am lol

[@ilyassyakie]

I only just started watching the video but I already love how there's this precise optical device and it's clamped to a piece of lumber. Makes me feel right at home!

[@U_Geek]

So fun fact, most images you have seen of stars from telescopes looked around an obstacle. Newtonian telescopes have two mirrors with the secondary mirror being in the middle of the of the scope's fov but when well focused it doesn't appear in the final image.

[@urgay1992]

You can also just buy catadioptric telephoto lenses for normal digital cameras that work on a similar principle. A quirk of them is that out of focus highlights form rings instead of spheres because of the ring shaped aperture.

[@NovemberIGSnow]

Another fun fact: If you cover the bottom half of a regular camera lens, it will still capture the full field of view. This is because even though the obstruction is blocking 50% of the light going to the lens, all of the light rays are still able to find paths to the detector through the uncovered half of the lens. This is in principle the same thing that happens with the secondary mirror in telescopes. The secondary mirror blocks a portion of the incoming light, but there are a bunch of other paths for the light to take that will hit the primary mirror.

[@WizardofoOZeAU]

Look up the controversy that Flat Earthers stir up by ignoring effective aperture diameter of a lens when modelling a flat table as the flat earth. The engineering here destroys their arguments in a way.

[@soliloquym5473]

Honestly, I cannot express how much respect I have for you and your channel. as a kid I played a text based game years ago and wrote "systems" within that game in a program called mudlet that used lua. I remember all the days I spent trying to debug/get working some basic code I wrote and how frustrating it was to slog through each and every line of the code until you find the "duh" mistake you made and it all magically works and suddenly all that effort was worth it. remembering that gives me a marked appreciation for the mental fortitude you have to slog through the problems you face in your high level creative projects.

[@antibrevity]

Very cool. This isn't the first time you've built something complex enough that viewers might not be as impressed as they should be ;). You did a fine job of explaining the concept in 20 minutes, but you've obviously had to gloss over many of the image-building difficulties. This is an incredible camera and you've only shown us a few of things it can do; it's a virtual lens on a human-sized sensor. In a way, this reverses much of what digital sensors have been doing for decades; their pixels get smaller and their lenses focus light onto smaller areas to fit into more devices while your camera is a humongous sensor with large virtual pixels. Both strategies require software correction, but for different reasons.

[@spaced5155]

shut up mate stop yapping

[@forestpepper3621]

Years ago, I worked in an optics lab, and part of my work involved making holograms. An interesting hologram property is in the negative. When you make a hologram, you first make a "negative" image, similar to the "negative" from which a photograph is made. In a photographic negative, colors all become the complementary color; i.e. blue becomes orange, red becomes green, just like the "after image" you see when you close your eyes. The interesting thing about a hologram negative is that the perspective is inverted. It is surreal to see actually; as I recall, things become larger as they get farther away in the negative, whereas normally we expect things to get smaller as they get farther away. It is interesting to know that the same effect can be achieved using a properly designed camera lens, as described at 14:25 in this video, where the "reverse perspective" lens is discussed. One last comment, this approach to photography seems to be analogous to how "Synthetic Aperture Radar" images are formed.

[@lindybeige]

Fantastic work! This must have some practical applications. I was disappointed not to see a perspectiveless picture of a cube. Could it be used to create clothing patterns on a mannikin? I suppose that existing 3D CAD can do that another way, but it might be a way to reverse engineer a pattern from clothing. Could you create a funky animated sequence by scanning the same thing many times with different lenses and then viewing the pictures in sequence?

[@VcSaJen]

Yeah, I was expecting a cube, and a lot of other pictures. Just one picture per simulated lens type is really not enough.

[@brianargo4595]

Oooh! It's Lindy! I'm allowed to be a pedant! A mannikin/manikin is an anatomical model, a mannequin is for fashion, though when I was in art class it was always a mannequin here in the US.

[@ScottiStudios]

Yes! I cam here to say the same thing. Really wanted to see perspectiveless photo of a cube, and also a reverse-perspective photo of a cube. Please do a short, StuffMadeHere :P --- Great video tho, what a brilliant idea :D

[@GhostGK21]

It's Lindy Beige!

[@Penrowe]

>This must have some practical applications Telecentric lenses exist so no.

[@AaronJames2780]

This was one of the coolest videos I've ever seen I think. Everything lined up. Total badass. I'm subscribed.

[@solomarkgulo]

12:09 "Who needs Drugs when you have engineering?" needs to be a motivational poster

[@dj5t0rm]

MERCH!

[@Tmanaz480]

An Adam Savage T-shirt.

[@insertgamertag5369]

Engineer some drugs *walter white walks in*

[@WolfVidya]

16:26 HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN IN YOUR DREAMS?

[@Ksoism]

Comment that in every other KZbin video would have a different perspective.

[@skedfinger]

Adam Driver you mean?

[@onlyonecannoli7537]

That's my runescape character

[@donaldbrorson4583]

It’s Zark Muckerburg

[@RyanMercer]

Oh this should be fun, and semi-safe for once.

[@Runefrag]

A giant steel weight spinning around on an arm with exposed electrical wiring touching. Yeah, super safe.

[@RyanMercer]

@@Runefrag safer than several of his last projects though.

[@rhetorical1488]

engage your safety squints as prudence the safety goat is on the case.

[@Voyajer.]

​@@Runefragnow describe operating a car in the same style.

[@BrockToews]

You're right. It needs something sharp or explosive. Powder actuated spinny cam?

[@joeg4707]

Incredibly novel. Outstanding design and troubleshooting. As a mechanical engineer, I'm so impressed with the overall system engineering, particularly the software.

[@biggiecheese7489]

it always interests me how long these incredible projects take. have you thought about maybe including some sort of date or time stamps throughout the video? its just something i would personally like to see, thats all. but i love getting to see almost every single little step of the process. great video!

[@iAmGrizzlyBear420]

Yeah I'd love if the clips had timestamps

[@brinckau]

This is his 3rd video in 2024, not counting the one released on January 1st because it was made last year. So, probably 4 months to make one video, on average.

[@thomaskletzl6493]

I must really say i extremely appreciate that you let your projects be the star of the show. No extra hype or fancy showing it. Just the project, how its made and the engineering behind it.

[@traviscunningham_1]

12:01 Somebody needs to make a super cut of all of the times Shane has a breakthrough and finally gets his builds to work. Truly inspiring stuff, keeps you going. Love these moments.

[@raphiseth6942]

The best part is without any context this seams very weird to be happy about a picture like that

[@no_not_that_one_again]

One of my kids is a 12 year old genius. Your videos are so inspirational for him that it's hard to describe. He wants to be just like you - making the weirdest things because you can. Thanks for sharing your passions with us!

[@PineappleElephant68]

he's not a genius

[@dan725]

Channels like these are absolutely godsend. Bro is inspiring so many people to be smarter and go out there and make stuff. I absolutely LOVE how you really showcase your perseverance and problem solving. As an engineer myself, I can understand those looong hours troubleshooting; but the payoff and that “YES IT WORKS!” moments always makes it so worth it. You’re showing my kids in such a fun way what’s that’s like. You are an incredible role model.

[@beavismount]

I wrote off the idea of an orthographic camera as impossible after years of playing in Blender and CAD, and now my feeling of awe is intense! This was a joy to see, please keep taking pictures with that thing. I'd also enjoy a separate video going over the image building code and component selection in moderate detail. Like the kind of broad strokes that apply across languages and software.

[@vexnity460]

IKR? i was super amazed by the orthographic camera

[@idontknowanygoodnames1498]

There does exist lenses for regular cameras that give an orphographic perspective.

[@vexnity460]

@@idontknowanygoodnames1498 Really??

[@LucasH-x7m]

@@vexnity460 It's called a telecentric lens, and its widely used in machine and computer vision

[@PineappleElephant68]

noob

[@user-.--.-]

12:36 idk why, but i really like this one specifically. it feels like one of those captchas where they ask you to type the numbers but they're all squiggly

[@Harhour]

I will always be impressed and have great respect for people who experiment and create things out of the blue. I found myself getting as excited as you were as the video progressed and the result unfolded. Bravo and much respect!

[@philipdirnberger]

I’ve always loved your videos and appreciate the effort you put into them! Lately, though, I’ve noticed a shift, they seem to gloss over some of the details that used to make them so engaging. I understand you might be catering to a younger audience, but for many of us who watched for the in-depth problem-solving, that was the real draw. Have you considered creating a second channel or series for those of us who enjoy the deeper dive? It could be a great way to cater to both audiences!

[@nictheregulardude]

I’m with you on this!

[@poolkrooni]

He does in fact have a second channel!

[@poolkrooni]

Stuff Made Here 2, it was made for that very purpose (deep dives), but now sees way less frequent uploads than the main channel

[@philipdirnberger]

​@@poolkrooni Woah! Thank you lol-I had no idea it existed! I just checked it out, and it looks like a great start. However, it feels like there could be more content related to what’s posted on the main channel. I was hoping to see more.

[@nononanonon]

I would pay for extended cuts. This content has real value. Just saying.

[@HartleysFilms]

As a filmmaker and camera lover, this was seriously amazing. This kind of camera could make some amazing art. I can't help but wonder what video would look like from some of these configurations. Speaking of art, you said this camera feels a lot more like creating art. Art is all about making *choices*. And here you're making a LOT of choices about the way you're photographing your subject.

[@AlexSanchezW]

Thanks! I don't know how many hours you spent in this project but here is my small sign of appreciation 😊

[@PineappleElephant68]

pinch purse 👺

[@shyboy2112]

your enthusiasm is contagious. Awesome stuff!

[@hipstersavage]

16:52 unironically would go super hard as an album cover

[@aj383]

I was thinking that a lot of those images could look quite good as disc art!

[@segfault-]

He was definitely onto something when he said these images "felt like art" it's basically an album cover machine

[@scott_pilgrim]

18:32 too

[@nabinnyc]

Either that or as CCTV footage of a serial killer in a Walmart.

[@yommish]

Would be cool as 12” label art, made me think of some of the labels for AFX - Analord

[@perpetualengine]

Was Medusa wack-a-mole supposed to be hydra wack-a-mole? 11:34

[@TravisTaft]

Had the same thought

[@froggyleaf6096]

Yes, yes it was. But he’s doing something more important so we will let it slide

[@Fight2Survive559]

The common don't have mentors to show us what lies past persistent effort... except for here. You and all of the educators / makers on KZbin and other platforms bring the fear of failing into part of the process. You are an inspiration, man. Nothing but love towards you and those that support you. Keep it up.

[@soliloquym5473]

those drawing you make really make what you're explaining super understandable for someone not versed in these topics.

[@Lockwren]

We need a spin off series of shorts called Stuff Made Here: Failure Diary. Around 11:35 you mention 'fixing all the issues', it'd be cool to get a look at a few of the problems you solved going over "What is supposed to happen", "What IS happening", "What you suspect is causing the issue", "What IS causing the issue", and what decisions or misunderstandings led you to having the issue in the first place.

[@Merok23]

yeah! wish he used 'stuff made here 2' more and for these things!

[@StolenBlock]

Yea i'm missing the old videos. Like, how is he blending the pixels/light readings? Is he making more readings on the outside. How is he supporting everything with electricity, why this focal length for his lens, how is the balancing weight moving past the sensor when he's in the middle. Is the gearshaft not fixed to the rotating pole, how is he unswirling the patterns or is he measuring where the readings were taken. Why is there a bulge in the photo and why is he not fixing it. Is he taking a reading on time intervals so he is moving faster inwards because there is less area to scan...... I want all his thoughts and prayers

[@cranemon]

Honestly, as a hobbyist programmer, debugging is just not very fun or interesting. Usually it's something really dumb and simple that you overlooked (like letting the electrical contacts touch by accident), and you go through countless iterations of getting the computer to spit out its data at intermediary steps to follow where it's going wrong. It's already confusing enough as the programmer to debug, and even more difficult to explain your thought process behind it. Most of it will just be fruitless "I spent 5 hours thinking in was a problem with X, when it was a problem with Y."

[@nicknack125]

10:30 I 'm a EE at Thorlabs and couldn't agree more - even when prototyping a new product, I'll end up copying the a lot of the analog design from our dark magic wizard analog design engineers, or slapping one of those amplifiers in-line to verify everything works before trying a design myself. The analog stuff gets real funky real fast and it's always best to use something you know will work at first.

[@williamcox8491]

Does Thorlabs still send the goodie boxes? That was the best part of my PhD

[@nicknack125]

@williamcox8491 Yes! Still doing the labsnacks with all the orders :)

[@dulmi2317]

@@nicknack125 My coworker is always getting labsnacks. Extras when they ship one order in multiple packages.

[@alexandermarsteller7848]

A very common question in my past with photo diodes: Do I want to go through the pain to try to build an amplifier for this, or buy a good, working one? After one attempt, the latter answer is the default now 😅

[@Qpwrtm]

@@alexandermarsteller7848sometimes available TIA don’t give you needed amplification-bandwidth ratio. Then you have to design your own haha

[@spencereaston8292]

11:20 was rough. I remember checking in a one line of code change after a week of debugging to have the boss ask me what I was doing all week. My soul was already broken and her question felt like a boot to the neck. Hang in there champ! You are doing good.

[@privacyvalued4134]

Nah. You should just find a new boss. Some bugs take a long time (weeks to months) to track down and are one-line fixes.

[@joshd79]

@@privacyvalued4134debugging is a skill you can improve. And one that should be taken into account for compensation…

[@Houdini111]

@@privacyvalued4134 100%. There's a phrase usually used for repair people that's also relevant here. Don't remember the exact phrasing but it's basically "You don't pay $1000 to fix it, you pay me $100 to fix it and $900 for knowing how". Most people could do the same thing (literally just changing a character in a file) but most people also would have no idea how to find out what to change.

[@SystemsPlanet]

If your bugs take weeks to find, find another profession

[@SrKinko]

​@@SystemsPlanetYou're the guy writing all the bugs

[@pellecarlen]

I really liked this video. It’s informative and engaging. I actually yelled ”YES!” when you got the first decent photo 😂 I respect you man.

[@michaelwagner8856]

This is awesome, you should make an animation where you take a series of pictures with a progressively narrower field of view until it becomes orthographic then continue with a increasingly negative field of view. So you would start with being able to just see the cardboard then the card board would "shrink" eventually shrinking until it reveals the thing behind it.

[@GrzecznyPan]

With every vid I do admire your bravery on putting your great talent and knowledge to KZbin instead of some dull, well-paid engineer position in a big corporation. Respect, congratulations and thank you.

[@BenniK88]

That’s absolute insane. I work in the film industry and engineering and this it’s probably one of the most exciting thing in camera tech I’ve ever seen. I didn’t know it’s even possible to simulate lenses like this. Feels truly like a 3-D program. And even there I’ve only seen an autographic view not all the other crazy creative ideas. I can’t imagine how absolutely insane it would be to have this in high resolution with proper RGB read out. And then a proper photo campaign shot on it. Congratulations to this absolute insane achievement The only other absolute insane engineering. I’ve seen a few years ago, was a camera that’s basically reverse ray-tracing the light rays, and therefore can really look around corners and in other rooms without even being there. But seeing you engineering everything yourself from the software to the hardware and everything else is absolutely insane. After seeing your concept, I wonder if it’s possible to kind of use the same concept, if you have multiple images/photographs, undistort, account for their sensor size, and focal length and triangulate them, so you get their position in space, and then later, on the software side, fill in the blanks in kind of like a reproprojection setup to achieve basically the same as you did, but without having to have kind of like motion control rig. What’s what probably result in some that pixels probably could also work even though they’re not all on the same depth axes As a sidenote, it would be super interesting to know more about the hardware you used, I saw an Arduino but more insights about your tech stack and the math that’s making it possible would be super interesting

[@MattH-wg7ou]

It reminds me somehow of distributed aperture telescopes like the VLA Very Large Array. Maybe I'm off base but thats what I thought of.

[@moosewithguns1134]

The idea of reverse ray-tracing light rays makes my head hurt

[@DanielG-z8r]

all these lenses exist in a way that could be applied to a film camera, unlike this

[@theShadeslayer]

was the reverse raytracing another youtube video? I'd like to check that one out

[@TPTurkey-x2i]

Things like this exist for applications like inspecting equipment or hard to reach places.

[@neoone9820]

Kudos to you dude! Unbelievable patience and dedication to see something like this through.

[@brentmattix8749]

Shane, this is the first video of yours that I have seen and it was a pleasure watching you walk through your process, especially noting your trials while celebrating your triumps. Ironically, you say it at the end; the phrase that kept pounding in my mind was, "I am proud of you!" I've been coaching and teaching for the last thirty years and this video models everything that we need in the world to make it a better place. Kudos to you and thank you for sharing. Keep up the great work.

[@Mr_Wh1]

22:44 - We might never see a video from him again.

[@Darkstar77_1]

The cut was ominous.

[@kABUSE1]

Insert "totally worth it" meme here

[@Bob-o-h4k]

Ya it’s not looking around a wall he is moving a camera around the wall? Not cool

[@BroTeachesU]

@@Bob-o-h4kThat better be sarcasm

[@6apa6axx]

​@@BroTeachesU He ain't wrong tho. It's a really cool contraption, but it is basically peeking around the object. To actually see something from behind you'd need a force capable of bending light rays. Like that demonstration of moving near light speed.

[@JasperToeli]

I (as a visual artist) would just love to see more of those emulated wacky lenses images around 12:57! Thanks for blowing my mind

[@No1wochienfan]

I am extremely impressed by the quality of this video, your ingenuity and how good you are at explaining?? It’s very entertaining and you make stuff understandable??

[@memtub8782]

I really believe u transcended boundaries of engineering in this one and made art.

[@nichan008]

Who says there's a boundary between engineering and art??

[@Franch3ttz]

Never clicked so fast

[@Yellowsam4145]

Same

[@RekodeIt]

Back from work, sofa, open KZbin, click first suggested video.

[@ace1122tw]

dicked down

[@franchiniitalo]

The level of complexity in this project is out of this world! Genius!

[@jasonwattsae]

Absolutely Bravo! 99.9% of people cannot even begin to fathom how difficult these type projects are. You have so much respect!! I agree, these images are utterly amazing!

[@potaatobaked7013]

One thing that would be interesting to see from this is a photo with a different fov at each angle. Like it could be normal at the vertical but go through orthographic and end up at reverse perspective at the horizontal. Probably would just look like a mess, but it’s an interesting idea

[@milest9754]

Have it take a picture of itself in the mirror What would it look like??

[@EternalPending]

The same, or you would see the lens always

[@milest9754]

@@EternalPending yeah I think you’d see the camera blurred everywhere

[@_Stormfather]

​@@milest9754you wouldn't see it blurred, but you would see the camera arm in each position overlaid all on top of each other. Basically imagine the camera has ten thousand identical arms all around the circle, and it's not moving. That's what you'd see.

[@zixvirzjghamn737]

@@_Stormfather so like the ring camera diagram

[@SimonVaIe]

​@@_Stormfatherif I saw it correctly, the mirror on the camera can only tilt along one axis. Assuming that's true: If the camera is set to orthographic projection, the resulting image would just consist of the same pixel of the camera sensor over and over. If the camera mirror is fixed during capture, and pointing to the rotating arm, similar to what you said, a thin line of the rotating arm would be captured and each point of that capture would show up as a circle in the resulting image. And then you could also change the tilt of the camera mirror during capture, the result would be similar to the ones before though.

[@jckf]

The concept of looking "around" something is actually the least interesting here. Any camera can do this if placed on a long stick like this machine. Everything else is really cool though, especially the elimination of perspective!

[@tomadams7553]

The looking around is interesting because the photo looks like it's taken from a stationary point behind the cover. Sure, you could put the camera over the top of the cover, but it would be a picture from above.

[@_Stormfather]

​​@@tomadams7553this. I don't think he emphasized enough why this was such a big deal. It's not about what you're taking a picture of, it's about the impossible perspective you produce with the final image, which no other camera will be able to do

[@SimonVaIe]

​@@_Stormfather hyper centric lenses do exactly that, and telecentric lenses do orthographic projections. If I'm understanding correctly, the contraption here can basically emulate those lenses.

[@PineappleElephant68]

​@@SimonVaIeidiot

[@mattjones162]

Hey Shane, love your videos, keep up the good work and effort. I’d love to see your take on a 3d print recycling machine, one where it takes in failed prints, grinds them up, and produces new filament to then use again. I’ve seen lots of attempts, but nothings come close to a self contained, functional, and reliable process. Love to see what you’d be able to come up with!

[@KAYDdubz]

The way you explain things and the visualizations you use are otherworldly. You make extremely complex topics that I otherwise would assume I could never understand, very very digestible and easy to comprehend.

[@impavidvs_]

Nice to see Styropyro here. Huge collab! 14:53

[@michaelhoff852]

My kids and I watch your stuff, along with others like you.... i tell them that its cool to be smart and do good in school because you can do stuff like this, and you are an example of that. We love your videos. Keep inspiring us all.

[@dallinbeveridge9269]

My favorite day of the quarter are when these get uploaded. In all seriousness, these projects are worth the time you put into them. Great work.

[@pootyskills]

The 'nonplussed wife' gag on this channel is what keeps me coming back. That and the stuff made here

[@orangenostril]

The truest comment 😆

[@KieranSmit]

This has probably, surprisingly, been my favorite of your videos to watch so far. Obviously being able to control perspective to a degree in 3D software is one thing. But to see the images you've created is almost like discovering a new colour or smell. The theory makes sense and seems obvious as to what will happen but seeing it for real (watching a video) is pretty exciting.

[@phoenixking339]

~ 11:45 Hydra, not medusa.

[@RamanSharma89]

This blew my mind. I can't believe someone could put so much efforts into a project. Very inspiring.

[@JeffGeerling]

5:24 - Pi 5: spotted!

[@Jeff121456]

I thought you had finally lost it looking at an Arduino Mega, then I spied the Pi 5 hidden behind.

[@8bits59]

He's got the whole US supply of them on that one camera :P

[@JeffGeerling]

@@Jeff121456 Haha I was like "there *has* to be some more grunt besides just an Arduino on there..."

[@ScammerBoy-l2s]

Shure it’s not a pi 4?

[@ScammerBoy-l2s]

Look at 5:23 , looks like an audio jack

[@hclnet]

When you started describing this it immediately reminded me of things like mechanical tvs or the scanning cameras on satellites.There is a great video from Applied science where a similar effect is made with a big Fresnel lens. Making a scanner just rebuilds the lens one pixel at a time and that is so neat.

[@Ryan-xc4em]

No way people find this video through the search bar

[@lenOwOo]

Yeah, i didn't too

[@nixdorfbrazil]

I did. I saw it a snippet on tiktok, then looked it up on YT using the search bar.

[@AlvinWasHereRn]

Actually searched for a guy that got split in half by speeding F1 race car. Got this guy instead.

[@Jsbshsjsbshs]

@@AlvinWasHereRndid you ever find the f1 thing

[@kenshiro1990]

​@@JsbshsjsbshsI suppose they're talking bout the south african grand prix

[@AbdulelahAGR]

That feeling when you fail a lot, then it works! Amazing job in this project!!

[@lordmwa25]

"It's a very weird camera" I'd be very disappointed on this channel if it wasn't...... 😂

[@mstreich]

"Looks like I've seen some stuff." Yes, ma'am, you have seen some stuff. 22:27

[@gabriyeldoll1502]

"Who needs drugs when you have engineering" - 12:10

[@jordanbradford7729]

I’ve been chasing that high for twenty years in my career. 😂

[@BoxOfSnoo]

Yup I loved this line! It accurately captures the *euphoria of triumph* over an extremely challenging problem.

[@kazebaret]

Found your channel by chance, I know nothing of Engineering... Your passion and amazing ability to describe your thought process made me immediately subscribe! You are a gift for KZbin sir!

[@SpaghettiRoad]

This is absolutely amazing! Could you make a photo of a globe with the last “lense” you used? 🌎

[@Mike-B-Jackson]

14:00 - MIND. BLOWN. Never seen anything like this! Never even imagined it would be possible. This is cool! The funny thing is, the "seeing around objects" stuff at 16:30 is somehow less impressive, as you could really just move any old camera around the object without needing to spin it. But the no-perspective images are so unlike anything our eyes could ever see. I'm seriously impressed!

[@katiekawaii]

Completely agree.

[@AlexsProjects]

I love that you share your passion with your family. Best content ever.❤

[@JonLutz]

Amazing! The dedication to stick with it paid off in the end! The beauty is that no one could have invented the look of these photos; they are 100% a product of the effort and execution.