This is a short 24 minute test of an Ultra HD flower kaleidoscope with 30 vertices at 120 seconds per image. Some of the images are a little too blurry for Ultra HD and will be dropped from the final product as I replace them with more detailed, clearer and more colorful images. Only a few of these images will be in the final 2-hour product that I sell. This is just a test to give you an idea of what I'm working on next. I'm definitely going to keep the roses in the first image (first 120 seconds). I recently did a kaleidoscope project in which the number of vertices in the radial kaleidoscope were 7, 15, 30 and 60. This is an example of what a 30 looks like with some very high resolution flower images. The first image in this video is of some royalty-free roses: http://www.123rf.com/photo_13718467_colorful-roses-background-beautiful-high-quality-good-for-holidays-valentines-s-gift.html?term=colorful%20roses http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-image-colorful-roses-background-image24864596 I had to license these roses for $100 for the Comprehensive Extended License. They are available royalty-free from multiple distributors and how any individual distributor would recognize the end result I don't know. I will need 60 beautiful royalty-free images in ultra high resolution and 2 hours of royalty-free music to make a 2 hour Ultra HD flower kaleidoscope video. That might be a little too expensive to put on YouTube for free. I thought about buying this camera and lens: http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Products/Product/dslr-cameras/D810.html http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Products/Product/Camera-Lenses/AF-S-NIKKOR-70-200mm-f%252F2.8G-ED-VR-II.html Then I'd just go to a large flower market and get all my own source images. I'd would need a tripod, a flash and a decent zoom lens, maybe less expensive than the one above. The source images have to be really high definition, at least 4405 pixels on the shortest side if I want to really show off the detail of Ultra HD. This camera captures images that are 7,360 x 4,912 pixels. 4405 is the distance of the diagonal on the 3840x2160 Ultra HD image. The kaleidoscope is a wedge from a circle with that that diameter taken from the dead center of the image after the image is scaled to 4405 on the shortest side. This is the part of the original copyrighted image that I use. In this case, at any given time, I am using a 12 degree wedge (3.3% of the total image). If a sophisticated frame-by-frame video analysis were able to reconstruct a part of an original image by sampling a single wedge over time in order to reassemble that circular part of the original image, it is a 4405 diameter circle that they would recover. They are pretty much unrecognizable by a human in the final product with 30 and 60 vertices in the kaleidoscope. A human can make out the original image with just 7 vertices, such as in this example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANdQQj4Q_bE. At 30 and 60, it's kind of the honor system. At 30 and 60, it would probably take a computerized analysis that reassembles a circle by sampling a wedge over time and stitching them all together in order to recognize and identify the source. It's possible with some good programming but you'd have to be pretty motivated to go through the trouble. I play it safe when I have to but seriously, I can't afford $6000 up front for 60 images. So I'll have to buy this camera and a cheaper lens and/or use my licensing money very carefully. There are a few http://123rf.com images that would look good as flower kaleidoscopes, but not that many. I'm using this rose image as one example. It's very popular on Google Images, which is where I found it. I think it was worth the money. I can sell this and freely talk about it in the context of a copyright discussion at the same time. I have this image in 7,020 x 4,680. https://www.google.com/search?q=colorful+roses+background&tbm;=isch&tbs;=simg:CAQSigEahwELEKjU2AQaAggIDAsQsIynCBpgCl4IAxIonwumF6oFqAXhFooEiBGnF7ILlAnCKMEogCOBI-gh0CHRIc4hvyHPIRowdHRP_13rj2ZEf_1cu_1ZZWBVsqm7VXcO7uBQuUccSnNvrUIs_1ysixRR-oOTsEcHeTyODAsQjq7-CBoKCggIARIE-qxJiww&sa;=X&ei;=sExUVf6wEsikoQSp2IDoDA&ved;=0CBsQ2A4oAQ&biw;=1636&bih;=836 You can e-mail me here: https://www.youtube.com/user/hdcolors/about

• published: 16 May 2015
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