Time Maps: Credits, Papers, and Acknowledgements

Time Maps were devised by Michael Terry as part of Diane Gromala's Experimental Media class at Georgia Tech.

Grace Ou and Jaroslav Tyman, along with Michael Terry, created the 9 minute movie Tesseract showcasing these techniques. Starting with a series rapid-fire snapshots taken from over 20 webcams scattered across the globe, Tesseract gradually stretches time out, presenting ever-increasing views of lengths time. At its finale, the audience is treated to a simultaneous showing of an entire season of days progressing on opposite ends of the earth (Hong Kong and Alaska).

Papers

Gabriel Brostow joined the project to contribute to an academic paper describing the Time Maps technique. This paper is part of SIGGRAPH 2004's Technical Sketches program. The paper is available here:

Making Space for Time in Time Lapse Photography (PDF)

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Cornell University for granting us permission to use their webcam footage in our demonstrations and videos.
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