I have a long-standing dream to use a line scan camera from a moving train, assuming everything would be easy, if I had the camera. Little did I realise how much work is needed to tidy up the imagery!

Your work is extremely beautiful, and I am truly envious of your work, the aesthetic is awesome. I want to do it on the cheap though, with a regular phone as camera.

I think you have given me the directions needed to make some bold steps towards getting what I want out of the 'medium'.

If you want to use a regular phone or camera, check out TrainScanner!

https://github.com/vitroid/TrainScanner

It converts a regular video into a line scan style photo. It works by stitching together small chunks rather than 1px thin slices, so the background has a repetitive texture rather than being smooth horizontal stripes. But at lower resolutions, it looks similar, especially if you pick a spot with a clean background. Also the trains turn out very detailed.

Example work by Kakeyama from Japan using this: https://kakeyama.fan.coocan.jp/tec/e5e8r.htm

Have you seen https://philo.gay/linecam/ and https://github.com/FlamingSpork/grindstone for the postprocessing code?

(previously on HN frontpage, and before that, at EMF Camp!)