ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Slit-scan photography

Okay, so imagine you have a camera and you want to take a picture of a moving object, like a race car or a bird flying through the sky. But when you take the picture, it comes out blurry because the object was moving too fast!

Slit-scan photography is a way to take a picture of that moving object and make it look really cool and trippy. Instead of taking the picture all at once, like a regular photo, you take it a little bit at a time.

Here's how it works: You take a long, skinny piece of paper or plastic and cover up your camera lens, leaving a small slit open in the middle. Then, you point your camera at the moving object and start taking pictures as it moves past.

Each picture you take only captures a tiny slice of the object as it moves past the slit. But when you put all those tiny slices together, it creates a really cool image that shows the object's movement over time.

It's like if you took a bunch of pictures of a person jumping in the air, but instead of seeing them all at once in one picture, you saw each tiny moment of their jump as a separate picture, all lined up in a row.

Slit-scan photography can create some really cool and trippy effects, like stretching out the object or making it look like it's bending in strange ways. It's a really creative way to capture movement in a still image!