{"id":221725,"date":"2025-09-11T04:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/software-tool-turns-everyday-objects-into-animated-eye-catching-displays-without-electronics"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:37:22","slug":"software-tool-turns-everyday-objects-into-animated-eye-catching-displays-without-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/software-tool-turns-everyday-objects-into-animated-eye-catching-displays-without-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Software tool turns everyday objects into animated, eye-catching displays\u2014without electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5B-hyodzi1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re an artist, advertising specialist, or just looking to spruce up your home, turning everyday objects into dynamic displays is a great way to make them more visually engaging. For example, you could turn a kids\u2019 book into a handheld cartoon of sorts, making the reading experience more immersive and memorable for a child.<\/p>\n<p>But now, thanks to MIT researchers, it\u2019s also possible to make dynamic displays without using electronics, using barrier-grid animations (or scanimations), which use printed materials instead. This visual trick involves sliding a patterned sheet across an image to create the illusion of a moving image.<\/p>\n<p>The secret of barrier-grid animations lies in its name: An overlay called a barrier (or grid) often resembling a picket fence moves across, rotates around, or tilts toward an image to reveal frames in an animated sequence. That underlying picture is a combination of each still, sliced and interwoven to present a different snapshot depending on the overlay\u2019s position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you\u2019re an artist, advertising specialist, or just looking to spruce up your home, turning everyday objects into dynamic displays is a great way to make them more visually engaging. For example, you could turn a kids\u2019 book into a handheld cartoon of sorts, making the reading experience more immersive and memorable for a child. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}