Do you know what a wigglegram is?

↳ c. "suavecorn" on reddit

It is a kind of stereo image you make by looping frames together, like as a GIF.

↳ c. "aka_hochstapler" on reddit

The effect is quite convincing.

↳ c. "suavecorn" on reddit

I am something of an indecisive photographer and when I like an angle I will take a lot of frames, from slightly different angles etc., looking for "the shot". And since I am also a bit of a hoarder I never clear out my camera roll.

"Same shot from different angles"? You know what that sounds a bit familiar.

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Sure enough my phone is full of wigglegrams that I took by accident. Years' worth, waiting for me to sit down and stitch them together.

Or, perhaps, for something to stitch them together. It occurred to me last weekend that I can use perceptual hashing - what TinEye (et al.) uses for reverse image search - to try and find runs of similar images and pull them out from my library automatically.…