r/woahdude • u/mervenca • 6d ago

video Mechanical video loopback device this dude built making wild fractals and visuals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3eHKI0nvKA
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u/sutroheights 6d ago

I did a similar thing shooting a tv screen with a video camera in 1993, you'd get crazy fractals and swirls rotating.

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u/mervenca 6d ago

Yep, but this dude does it multiple times over, so it kinda trancends the regular feedback effect.

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u/nurb_your_enthusiasm 6d ago

Yep, but people have been fucking around with stuff like this for a while. This guy's video is impressive because there's a physical representation but running recursive loops is not new. For the record I still think this video absolutely fits the subreddit but he's not "transcending" at the level you think.