The Xelatype: a journey through time and space (emf2026)

In my quest for Weird Art, long have I wanted to build a digital slit-scan camera. The idea was to take a linear CCD, a load of RAM, and glue them together with an FPGA. But as I pursued the project, things went in a strange new direction, and I ended up creating something different, something so fascinatingly odd that it changed the way I think about time and space. It all got quite philosophical. Egotistically I named the project after my online alias, and then kept it secret for the best part of a decade. In this talk, all shall be revealed... Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/205-the-xelatype-a-journey-through-time-and-space