Bullet Time Project

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

Project Details

Created By

SE Team
SE Team

Timeline

Created

January 15, 2025

Last Updated

a month ago

Technologies

group projectraspberry picomputer vision

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).