katharina mayrhofer
is a mediadesigner developing inter- active applications;
and a mediaartist focusing on generating audio and visual output.
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[03.08] train scans

This project tries to give the possibility to see the landscape of hundreds of km at once. It’s a frozen view over hours looking out of a trains window. The landscape gets scanned 25 times a second through a virtual gap and gets saved at the same time as a one pixel width picture.
The sum of all those captured moments results in a panorama image. You can always see the width of the picture at the beginning of the link.
Inspired by Max’s art work and thx to tonfilm help.
Here you can see a part of the first scan. Frankfurt - Hannover

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Just click one of the following links to see one of the far distances in this compressed format.
691200px Frankfurt(D) - M¨nchen(D) - Linz(A) this time i could make a scan during the day. see the georgeous landscapes…
124928px Verona(I) - Brenner(A) well. no outlets in italien trains…
229376px Frankfurt(D) - Kassel(D); Hannover(D) - Bad Oeynhausen(D) On the first part of the road i was sitting on the floor of the train - quite crowded one. There is a break in the middle of my trip, because of my low battery…
357376px Bad Oeynhausen(D) - Frankfurt(D)
306176px Frankfurt(D) - Hannover(D)