Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

Very cool! I wrote code to do this back in 1995 for a company called 3DCOM. We supported full color, full page prints from a sequence of 24 images, each from a slightly different angle to produce a 3D &quot;holographic&quot; printout. the effect was so good you could stick your finger into the image.<p>At the time (the dark ages of commodity printer technology) it required an EPSON inkjet that could do at least 1200dpi. After printing you just slapped a sticky-backed lenticular lens (lined up with registration marks) on the printout and voila!<p>I kept one 8&quot;x10&quot; 3D printout of a buckyball that&#x27;s still pretty impressive looking, even after nearly 20 years!

This is an awesome idea. I would love the option to upload a short video clip instead of a gif though, and have it take 10 evenly spaced frames from the video. My nieces (ages 8 &amp; 10) would love to use this to make prints of themselves in action, but it would be easier for them to be able go straight from a video taken with a phone to a printed product.

Looks fantastic.<p>I noticed that all the lenticulars demonstrated have horizontally aligned lenses for a final image that you rock head to heel. Why not offer a vertically aligned lenses for a final image to that you rock side to side? If I understand correctly, a user should be able to do this themselves if they flip the source image 90 degrees, but an option would be nice. There are some issues with your eyes seeing different frames with vertical lenses, but that could be used for cool stereo effects too.

10 frames is a little scanty, but I think the idea is great. I&#x27;m afraid most of my favorite gifs won&#x27;t fit, but using this type of display is forehead-slappingly obvious - now that they&#x27;ve done it, of course.

Is there really no way to see the pricing structure before I upload things? That&#x27;s frustrating.

Just placed an order. Looking forward to receiving the card.<p>You guys should consider doing affiliate deals with places like <a href="http://makeagif.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;makeagif.com</a>. (That&#x27;s where I made my animated GIF in the first place.)

I know this ship has sailed, but the G in GIF is pronounced like in &quot;gin&quot;, not like in &quot;gig&quot;.

We were lucky enough to have Sha and Rachel come to ultravisual for lunch yesterday, first time I got to see some of the lenticulars in person and they look <i>awesome</i>. I think they&#x27;re taking this in a really fun direction, can&#x27;t wait to see what people make with the service :)

I want to see more shots of the actual prints though, I only saw one in the video, be good to get a better idea of the quality of the print and the motion.

Genius! Just one request. Crop a little off the left of the animation. I can&#x27;t stop staring at the hair on that thumb. It&#x27;s like watching tall grass sway in the wind.

OMG.<p>I was just looking at one of my children&#x27;s books earlier and came up with exactly this idea. Two hours later, sit down on HN and someone has already done it.<p>Awesome work whoever did this!

Awesome idea at a pretty reasonable price. Regarding the video... they might want to invest in some acting lessons haha.

It would be cool if the user could pick the 10 frames out of the gif rather than requiring 10 sequential frames!

How far is the technology from being able to do this on textiles? That would be sick.

Ok, now just combine that with t-shirts (g-shirts).<p>edit: awesome idea btw!

This looks fantastic. I make gifs out of pictures I take on burst mode and these would be beyond perfect for presenting them. (try it at a party, it&#x27;s much more fun than static pictures, also for posed group shots)<p>I&#x27;m waiting for flexible color solar-powered wireless e-ink displays to give the full &quot;Harry Potter&quot; moving-picture effect, but they&#x27;re a few years out!

This is super cool. I&#x27;ve looked a little at lenticular printing for 3D prints but sourcing the lenses was a little more effort than I needed. I&#x27;d pay well over material cost to have someone else handle assembling. If you add an option meant for that I&#x27;d be all over it.

Explain what lenticular is on the home page, and maybe show a photo of an actual example?

Omg this is an amazing idea! I love gifs so much, I will definitely try this out!

This is very cool. Is there any particular reason why non-GIF version is limited to just 2 pictures? It would be awesome to be able to manually upload a number of images, especially with phones supporting burst mode.

Hey, this is a great idea! Are you going to put out an API for this?

This is awesome. Definitely has a Harry Potter feel to it. Love it!

You have no pricing whatsoever on your site. I had to upload a gif just to see the prices. This is probably not ideal. I&#x27;d suggest adding a pricing page :)

How good can this tech get? Could you print an ultra-high dpi image, put ultra-fine lenses over it, and turn it very slowly to get several minutes of video?

I wish I would of though of this, pretty clever idea.

Getting errors when I attempt to upload an image in Chrome (and IE).<p>Uncaught SecurityError: Access to &#x27;localStorage&#x27; is denied for this document.

also just found out about <a href="http://meshu.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;meshu.io</a> through this- also a great idea!

It&#x27;d be nice if I could upload 10 PNG files so as to not be bound by the 256 color limitation of GIFs.

WHY OH WHY are there no Internet meme samples? I&#x27;d think Dramatic Chipmunk would be a shoo-in.

Super cool. Wondering if the prices are the same for original art as for the artist generated works.

is that my hackertyper that I see there? :D

Can they do animated ascii art too?

put this on etsy