Timelapser

I have recently started moving my development efforts over to GitHub, to keep everything in one place. Now I have also uploaded a small application I developed for a project by my mother, Norwegian sculptor Grete Refsum. She wanted to create a timelapse video of her making a new sculpture, “Hommage til kaffeselskapene”, for her installation piece Tante Vivi, fange nr. 24 127 Ravensbrück.

There are lots of timelapse software available, but none of them that fitted my needs. So I developed a small Max patch called TimeLapser. TimeLapser takes an image from a webcam at a regular interval (1 minute). Each image is saved with the time code as the name of the file, making it easy to use the images for documentation purposes or assembling the images into timelapse videos. The application was originally developed for an art project, but can probably be useful for other timelapse applications as well.

The application will only store separate image files, which can easily be assembled into timelapse movies using for example Quicktime.

Below is a video showing the final timelapse of my mother’s sculpture:

• jitter
• Max
• timelapse
• video