Bullet Time Project

Project Information

A university-funded project to recreate the bullet time effect from the Matrix.

a month ago

www.github.com

Project by Ollie Beenham, Chris Kaser, Jack Malone, and Precious Offodile

Project Objective

The aim of this project is to recreate the slow motion cinematic "bullet-time" effect used in the Matrix movies.

Hardware

This project consists of one master node, running on a high powered computer, and 42 "slave" nodes, each running on a Raspberry Pi 4B (4GB RAM). Each slave node has a PiCamera attached, and communicates with the master node via websockets.

Operating Modes

There are 3 operating modes for this project:

  • Freeze Frame
  • Slow Motion (Bullet-Time)
  • Light Painting

NOTICE

Please note this project, and its associated documentation is still a work in progress. We are currently in the process of migrating all project repositories to one primary repo. The original repositories can be found on our GitHub organisation (link).