Demaris is a reader, writer, and gamer from Juneau, Alaska. She has been writing about games, movies, and other pop culture phenomena since 2015. Demaris has a particular fondness for fantasy and ...

Award-winning visual effects artist Douglas Trumbull died recently, leaving behind a body of memorable work including the slit-scan ‘Stargate’ sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But what is ...

The trippy twist stretching across your screen is a doctored flower—though you won’t see this creation at a wedding reception anytime soon. Each spiral is a product of an editing technique called slit ...

A photo finish isn't just an illustrative expression. Some finishes in racing are so close that only photography is precise enough to determine the finishing order conclusively. A slit-scan camera ...