Bullettime is a concept that was introduced in The Matrix movie, which indicates a special way of slow motion movies, using dozens of cameras that shoot the action from slightly different angles around. The effect is as if the viewer can walk in the middle of the actions while the time, and thus the other movements, are delayed or stopped.
By taking the photo cameras very fast one after the other, the motion becomes slow motion. When all the cameras take a photo at a time, motion is stopped while the movie camera moves around the still image.
After bullet time was used in The Matrix, the effect was quickly copied. A good example is the computer game Max Payne. Max Payne's designers say the idea of bulletime has begun, while Matrix enthusiasts demand the concept. The truth will be in the middle because the film and the game were produced at the same time.
While The Matrix came into being in 1999, the technique was already used in 1997 in the video clip of Smoke City: Underwater Love. The camera used to be called the Josephine. But the actual thinker of the effect is Michel Gondry. In 1995, he made the video clip of the song "Like a Rolling Stone" (a cover of the original by Bob Dylan from 1965). Here we see The Rolling Stones to hear the number. These scenes are interchanged with scenes of parties and freaking out of a drug addicted girl. Gondry thought that the morphing technique could also be used to allow images taken at the same time to pass from different camera angles. This creates a camera movement in a restrained time span.
Timeslice is the original term of bullettime and was designed for scientific applications to be able to take a moment at every place in a particular process. Externe link
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