Building a camera that sees behind things

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  • Опубліковано 3 гру 2024

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  • @StuffMadeHere
    @StuffMadeHere  День тому +92

    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
      @Keenora День тому +2

      Ohhh new video, I am down! x3

    • @Lavassin
      @Lavassin День тому +1

      He made stuff

    • @dogefort8410
      @dogefort8410 День тому

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

    • @Basement_CNC
      @Basement_CNC День тому +1

      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
      @ikesau День тому

      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 🤞

  • @VenseyNess
    @VenseyNess День тому +732

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

    • @MrBubmer
      @MrBubmer День тому +31

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

    • @BlueGamingRage
      @BlueGamingRage День тому +7

      Bending light is a solution

    • @a64738
      @a64738 День тому +4

      Or just use mirrors and make a periscope...

    • @SkinnyObelix
      @SkinnyObelix День тому +3

      or a window

    • @cyanhacker
      @cyanhacker День тому +1

      Brick is dense enough to hit the wall

  • @RyanMercer
    @RyanMercer День тому +559

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

    • @Runefrag
      @Runefrag День тому +7

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

    • @RyanMercer
      @RyanMercer День тому +7

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

    • @rhetorical1488
      @rhetorical1488 23 години тому

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

  • @robertschwien6396
    @robertschwien6396 День тому +82

    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.

  • @Spirit532
    @Spirit532 День тому +43

    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!

  • @FlorenceTerry-j1i
    @FlorenceTerry-j1i День тому +69

    To create an instructional video that teaches perspective, you should utilize this camera to record various simple shapes, such as cubes, cylinders, and cones. It might be very helpful for drafting and art classes.

  • @CharlieKellyEsq
    @CharlieKellyEsq День тому +862

    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
      @drake1636 День тому +24

      He already does

    • @artiumromanov9798
      @artiumromanov9798 День тому +5

      Crazy comment. Hilarious too

    • @MrCandyPants
      @MrCandyPants День тому +8

      He owes it to humanity

    • @MonkeMan54
      @MonkeMan54 День тому +1

      Definitely

    • @Vik1919
      @Vik1919 День тому +3

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

  • @omahuvisoongaro1207
    @omahuvisoongaro1207 День тому +45

    So, you basically put a camera on a stick, which is long enough to look behind a small barier the same way you'd put a mirror on a stick to look aroud edges.

    • @FirstLast-gw5mg
      @FirstLast-gw5mg День тому +1

      It's kinda like a digital periscope.

    • @adrien5568
      @adrien5568 День тому +11

      He did, feels like cheating.

    • @nicholas4839
      @nicholas4839 День тому +2

      Was thinking the same thing if the camera sticks past the edge then it could see him and not seeing behind walls

    • @linnickschlanter4712
      @linnickschlanter4712 23 години тому +1

      Yeah, had the same feeling

    • @TheSupsnow
      @TheSupsnow 23 години тому +2

      "This camera can see behind things when I put it where the thing isn't obstructing what's behind"

  • @Franch3ttz
    @Franch3ttz День тому +302

    Never clicked so fast

  • @Ravin428
    @Ravin428 День тому +35

    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.

  • @smartereveryday
    @smartereveryday День тому +7

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

  • @spencereaston8292
    @spencereaston8292 День тому +78

    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
      @privacyvalued4134 День тому +15

      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
      @joshd79 День тому

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

    • @Houdini111
      @Houdini111 День тому +5

      @@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
      @SystemsPlanet День тому

      If your bugs take weeks to find, find another profession

  • @gk5947
    @gk5947 День тому +41

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

    • @fikus7879
      @fikus7879 День тому +2

      That's what i wanted to say!

    • @Jack93885
      @Jack93885 День тому +4

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

  • @gabriyeldoll1502
    @gabriyeldoll1502 День тому +18

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

  • @syntactyx
    @syntactyx День тому +2

    In the future, I would choose Shane with a bottle of Adderall as humanity's champion in defense against the machines.

  • @nicknack125
    @nicknack125 День тому +20

    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
      @williamcox8491 День тому +1

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

    • @nicknack125
      @nicknack125 День тому +2

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

  • @briankoonce
    @briankoonce День тому +5

    The "no perspective" and "reverse perspective" results are still boggling my mind. Incredible!

  • @bad_noob1221
    @bad_noob1221 День тому +19

    UA-cams notifications actually worked for once. Glad to catch this early

  • @RandomPerson-vz3lc
    @RandomPerson-vz3lc День тому +177

    the camera isn’t seeing behind the wall though, you are just reaching the camera around the wall

    • @1813boo
      @1813boo День тому +21

      Yeah it's cool but not really a camera that can look around walls...

    • @ForeverHobbit
      @ForeverHobbit День тому +44

      yeah, the camera is peeking around different corners and then creating a flat image by combining different sides of the subject of the photos into 1.
      I love his projects but this is just not what he says it does

    • @neb_setabed
      @neb_setabed День тому +16

      Like if I was to take a normal camera and put it at the same place as his sensor I could take a better picture

    • @robinhood4640
      @robinhood4640 День тому +12

      Thanks for saving me 20 minutes.
      The spinning arm was enough for me to doubt the claim.

    • @timothybradford8216
      @timothybradford8216 День тому +8

      @@neb_setabed His sensor is in thousands of places. It would take you a very long time to put a normal camera at the same place as his sensor. Especially accurately.

  • @Lockwren
    @Lockwren День тому +2

    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.

  • @hipstersavage
    @hipstersavage День тому +3

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

  • @Questerer
    @Questerer День тому +2

    “You look like Thomas the tank” guess who sleeps on the couch tonight?

  • @HeyV63
    @HeyV63 День тому +1

    Just a quick note at 14:18 a true orthographic projection is AWESOME in that you can measure anything in the picture and get accurate measurements off of it.
    To say it more clearly once you know the measure of one thing you can measure everything else, because everything else will be to perfect scale.

  • @AlexsProjects
    @AlexsProjects День тому +8

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

  • @jatin3355
    @jatin3355 День тому +1

    *10 missed calls from Lockheed Martin*

  • @AbbasHiridjee
    @AbbasHiridjee День тому +1

    This channel never ceases to amaze me. Thank you.

  • @blar2112
    @blar2112 День тому +4

    You made a reverse cd player

  • @dalyxia
    @dalyxia День тому +45

    So you didnt made a camera that can see behind walls... Your camera just looks around the sides of the wall in a difficult way

    • @ekasm8000
      @ekasm8000 День тому

      Thats what i thought too, not gonna lie, intresting video, but kinda disapointing.

  • @ElliotMitchellR
    @ElliotMitchellR День тому +4

    @3blue1brown *creates an entire library to articulate physics on video*
    @StuffMadeHere proceeds to scribble on an ipad while recording

    • @multiarray2320
      @multiarray2320 День тому +2

      manim might be more visually pleasing, but doing it with an ipad is way faster and most of the time good enough to understand the concept.

    • @mehmetcaneksi8388
      @mehmetcaneksi8388 День тому

      @@multiarray2320 stuffmadehere actually builds the thing. that helps. if it were only a ipad drawing you wouldnt watch it probably :)
      love them both

  • @JuliaDragocena
    @JuliaDragocena День тому +1633

    *ANYONE in 2025* ??!!

  • @mstreich
    @mstreich 23 години тому +1

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

  • @franciscot
    @franciscot День тому +1

    You should showcase these photographs in a gallery. This is so freaking cool!

    • @foxthroat3410
      @foxthroat3410 День тому

      especially the orthographic and reverse perspective!
      Basically he's the first one to every take those kind of perspectives.(correct me if I'm wrong)

  • @evanwhite8639
    @evanwhite8639 День тому +1

    Wow! 15:00 is exactly how I felt! Another incredible video! The pictures are so interesting!

  • @hclnet
    @hclnet День тому

    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.

  • @MoctezumaStudios
    @MoctezumaStudios День тому

    I could have swore I saw this on a ted talk 15 years ago. Currently at 2:39 excited to see this project com to fruition :D

  • @darrens3
    @darrens3 День тому

    0:35 Haha! I was not prepared for the laser eyes! Well done with this project!

  • @solomarkgulo
    @solomarkgulo День тому +1

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

  • @lordmwa25
    @lordmwa25 День тому +5

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

  • @lukestoolbox
    @lukestoolbox День тому +3

    i bet by the end of next year we get to see a homemade MRI machine🫡

    • @grungko
      @grungko День тому

      "I asked my wife to see what my interior looks like"
      "Looks like a crab."

  • @timothybradford8216
    @timothybradford8216 День тому +1

    I love your explanations! Some of those pictures were really trippy.

  • @CEOofNothingTakes
    @CEOofNothingTakes День тому

    The photos out of this look really cool and it's all "in" camera, love the sweeping artifacts and slight warping misalignment on the colour photos.

  • @Ibrahim-1234
    @Ibrahim-1234 23 години тому +1

    Using two cameras seems unnecessarily redundant-it mainly acts as a counterweight to balance the setup (via centripetal force) while slightly speeding up the imaging process.
    Also, are we really being told that moving a camera around an object lets you see more of it? Shocking revelation…
    I usually enjoy your videos, but this one felt a bit off. Looking forward to more thoughtful content in the future-thanks for all your hard work!

  • @douglatins
    @douglatins День тому +1

    Omg reverse perspective got him so excited that put a smile on my face.

  • @Ryan-xc4em
    @Ryan-xc4em День тому +21

    No way people find this video through the search bar

  • @snosaf1757
    @snosaf1757 День тому

    14:53 That is actually an artpiece that you can interpret a lot into. One of those pieces where it's actually interesting

  • @AhmedMostafa-kn7ii
    @AhmedMostafa-kn7ii День тому +2

    What a crazy concept to start with, never clicked faster

  • @jacobbkgaard6735
    @jacobbkgaard6735 День тому

    I never thought I would ever experience something like this .. beautiful .. mind melting .. amazing!

  • @jbartl87
    @jbartl87 День тому +2

    Never actually looked through a wall, but still really fucking cool.

  • @aserta
    @aserta День тому

    3:52 if you printed that part... might as well print the threads with it. Cutting the material will invariably weaken it. Just my 2 cents. Printed threads are stronger than cut threads with both resin types and fdm types (with the caveat that it depends on how you print the part. Obviously a 20% or cheap resin won't be able to compete).

  • @enitalp
    @enitalp День тому +1

    It would be best to take a large CoreXY 3D printer's chassis and scan it in X Y instead of in a circle where you lose density on the edge.

  • @JeffGeerling
    @JeffGeerling 23 години тому

    5:24 - Pi 5: spotted!

  • @nick.100
    @nick.100 День тому +1

    17:51 this is how that one satellite that’s like the furthest from earth takes pictures isn’t it?

  • @zacharydefeciani7890
    @zacharydefeciani7890 День тому +1

    Destin from smarter every day is gonna be all about this

    • @rising_1rish978
      @rising_1rish978 День тому

      Literally just posted a comment saying I'd love to see a collab 😂😂😂

  • @tcurdt
    @tcurdt День тому

    The ideas you come up with is the real gold here.

  • @bennettwettengel6754
    @bennettwettengel6754 День тому +1

    I was literally checking yesterday to see if you'd uploaded recently. Let's goooo

  • @MisterItchy
    @MisterItchy День тому +16

    The answer is, 'no'. We can't see behind walls. We can see behind walls that are not connected to other walls so, we can move the camera. I didn't get this one.

    • @neb_setabed
      @neb_setabed День тому +4

      I feel like if he would have titled it something along the lines of "I made a different perspective camera" that would be better

    • @npotufsstrugas6390
      @npotufsstrugas6390 День тому +1

      He reached around the wall.

    • @sirjorm
      @sirjorm День тому +1

      the camera sees behind walls, but not *through* walls

  • @IEIDIDO
    @IEIDIDO День тому +3

    👍 for the big chunk of wood

  • @bluegizmo1983
    @bluegizmo1983 День тому

    11:54 Nothing better than that feeling when it _finally_ works!

  • @Madagon367
    @Madagon367 День тому +1

    Oh no, only 23 minutes. I assume there is more on Patreon which I am too cheap to buy. So I'm happy with what we got for free of course but still I could watch a lot more of how this came together. Awesome stuff as always.

  • @CookiePixl
    @CookiePixl День тому

    This is so cool! Looking around something with it is basically like putting something between your eyes. Up to a certain size you can see around it

  • @_spartan11796
    @_spartan11796 День тому

    Always exciting to see you post!

  • @MichaelEllisYT
    @MichaelEllisYT День тому

    This was a great project! What I liked best was the orthographic photo. Removing perspective was WILD.

  • @daanzen
    @daanzen День тому

    This is probably my favorite video you have ever made! Thank you!

  • @FirstLast-gw5mg
    @FirstLast-gw5mg День тому

    The basic concept here is the same as a periscope, shifting your field of view by some distance orthoganally to see around or past something directly ahead.
    The fact that you can simulate wacky lenses in software is pretty neat though.

  • @ConnerWithAnE_
    @ConnerWithAnE_ День тому

    22:15 Hilarious, comedy gold lmfao. The look up at the camera, cherry on top hahaha

  • @wcrb15
    @wcrb15 День тому

    This project is awesome. I can feel your excitement when it started working.

  • @void_creature
    @void_creature День тому +2

    Someone please give him infinite funding

  • @acapellaacapella4723
    @acapellaacapella4723 День тому

    Never disappointed with your innovations! Can't wait till April or May for the next one!

  • @NBear50
    @NBear50 День тому +1

    An answer to a question I never had. It's perfect!

  • @ehcropydoc
    @ehcropydoc День тому +1

    Smartest human to ever exist. By far.

  • @PumpiPie
    @PumpiPie День тому +1

    Happy to see that you aren't good at everything! 11:13 😂 Brings a little hope for the rest of us.

  • @QuintBUILDs
    @QuintBUILDs День тому

    Professor: This is linear algebra. Me: When would I ever use that stuff? Me today: Oh...

  • @Steedie
    @Steedie День тому

    WOAH this is incredible! Nice work

  • @robotics_and_stuff
    @robotics_and_stuff День тому

    I liked the ortho camera. Thanks for sharing!

  • @rasmus9311
    @rasmus9311 День тому

    The reverse perspective thing was very cool, would love to see more examples of it

  • @Zakk_Ross
    @Zakk_Ross День тому

    This is beautiful. also the coolest profile pic creator. So cool!!! and I would love to see landscape photos and what not with weird lenses! that's art man!!!

  • @LetsPlay4Free
    @LetsPlay4Free День тому

    Another banger Stuff Made Here Video. Can't wait for the next one!

  • @user-fm5ju8cx4v
    @user-fm5ju8cx4v День тому +1

    It's not useless, it makes great black metal album cover pictures iI think

  • @nicolaslab1814
    @nicolaslab1814 День тому +1

    I have been waiting so long for an upload.

  • @number1eclipse
    @number1eclipse День тому

    Once I saw that thing in action for the first time I was like huh, he adopted the MRI moving camera approach. At the very least it immediately reminded me of that spinning rig. I understand the tech is different, but implementing similar design for a reason.

  • @tomasnemec5680
    @tomasnemec5680 День тому

    Dude, you are awesome! I so much enjoy watching your projects. This one blew me away

  • @EDKFtravels
    @EDKFtravels 23 години тому

    WOW!!! Amazing!!! Thanks for the video!!! Keep up the good work.

  • @jckf
    @jckf День тому +1

    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!

  • @owngamesgamer4030
    @owngamesgamer4030 День тому +1

    17:54 VOYAGER COREEE
    (this is a very similar way to how the voyager probes made color pictures)

  • @Moesbi689
    @Moesbi689 День тому

    These tablet explanations are so nice:)

  • @balomueller
    @balomueller День тому

    Very impressive tech and I think the results are actual art!

  • @MikeDS49
    @MikeDS49 День тому

    It's an an absolutely incredible device, and takes a large chunk of brilliance. Eliminating perspective is so cool and it's a key feature of a Synthetic Apeture Radar. That said, the creation process is not teaching the viewers a good methodology for creating a complicated system. I don't know if you did it off camera, but instead of trying to eat the elephant in one bite, show stepping up from simple prototypes first to make a proof of concept work for each element of the system. It would avoid a lot of the nearly impossible debugging of the full scale complicated system simultaneously with 100s or 1000s of possible interacting sources of error.

    • @MikeDS49
      @MikeDS49 День тому

      The mathematics alone describing what the camera sees in these odd lens configurations take a very large feat of mental might.

  • @RFC3514
    @RFC3514 День тому

    Applied Science did something similar a few years ago using huge fresnel lenses. The video is called "Hypercentric optics: A camera lens that can see behind objects".

  • @Will-bp4ri
    @Will-bp4ri День тому +1

    11:37 Hydra wack-a-mole

  • @michaeldufresne9428
    @michaeldufresne9428 День тому

    I applaud your tenacity. I don't know how you manage to do it every time instead of giving up before succeeding in the end.

  • @biocyd3
    @biocyd3 День тому +2

    @StuffMadeHere I thought for sure you were going to try and scatter a laser or something to try and bounce around objects. Then somehow read it. Isnt what you did kinda just the same as if someone just walked to the left or right until they could see you behind the wall? Still amazing and I love your vids. Just think this one is kinda cheating. More looking behind than seeing behind the wall. :)

  • @MonkeMan54
    @MonkeMan54 День тому +1

    This man is a genius

  • @oryxwhite7555
    @oryxwhite7555 День тому

    The last photo process is literally digital cubism which is really cool!

  • @DynoosHD
    @DynoosHD День тому

    You can shorten the exposure by using multible arms and let them expose different sections of the image.

  • @starshipx1282
    @starshipx1282 День тому

    You are an inspiration to many young engineers to try and make things on their own and experiment and test. Its wonderful.

  • @timwildauer5063
    @timwildauer5063 День тому +10

    There actually are cameras that see around corners. They measure the time it takes photons to bounce off a wall, hit the object, off the wall again, and then hit the detector. Then with tons of math you can get the general shape of an object that’s occluded. The Smithsonian Magazine has an article about it from 2012 if anyone is interested.

    • @steveb0503
      @steveb0503 День тому

      I was going to bring this up - it's an interesting ability that emerged out of the research methodology referred to as "femtophotography".

  • @Deja117
    @Deja117 День тому

    This is epic. I wonder what would happen if you added thermal imaging or radar cameras, would you be able to see partially through blocked areas if they were in the middle? Or even use the data they give for better alignment of the final coloured image?

  • @DeadlyNancy
    @DeadlyNancy День тому

    Seeing the effort you put into spinning the camera balanced really makes you appreciate the engineering of a CT scanning machine.

  • @oscar________
    @oscar________ День тому

    Easily the best channel out there!!👌

  • @ifconceptvideos
    @ifconceptvideos День тому +1

    This spiraled within control real fast.