Line Scan Photos from MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco

(daniel.lawrence.lu)

54 points | by plun9 1 day ago

5 comments

dllu 19 hours ago
OP here, ask me anything! I've also written about the process previously:
- Line scan camera image processing: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2025-09-21-line-scan-camera-... Previous discussions:
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  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44996938

  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383593

  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388084
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- Standalone line scan camera hardware: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2026-06-12-standalone-cnc-li...
- Line scan camera image processing 2: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2026-08-02-line-scan-camera-...
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- 0xfaded 16 minutes ago
  Very cool.
  I never thought about it until seeing these, but line scans yield an orthographic projection in the scan direction. There was a little bit of uncanny valley being able to see parts of the front/back of the car that would have normally been compressed out occluded by perspective.
- plun9 18 hours ago
  oh ok
phgn 11 minutes ago
Woww so cool, thanks for sharing!
Goatsgiats 18 hours ago
These are really lovely.
muststopmyths 21 minutes ago
beautiful !
gerikson 34 minutes ago
Very cool images!
What lens are you using? Does it have to cover 135 format?