Caught all the transitions in the cockpit controls one but when you're in it for the content you can barely notice the transition. So impressed and definitely another Posy classic.
In a world of AI generated, fast-paced content, you are a breath of fresh air. From original concepts, to original (beautiful) visuals, to an original (beautiful) soundtrack - you are a shining example of the best parts of RUclips. If I had the money I wish I could personally finance the production of these vids lol but I don't... all I have is sharing it with friends, and my personal gratitude to your creativity...
FYI, the “diffusion” dithering of the inkjet (as opposed to the halftone dithering of the offset and screen printing) actually exists for offset printing, too, where it’s known as “stochastic” dithering. It’s more difficult to do, so it’s never become widespread, but it looks gorgeous. Also, many inkjets by the early 2000s actually did use multiple droplet sizes. Epson’s piezo printheads actually produce multiple droplet sizes from the same nozzles, while Canon’s thermal printheads use separate nozzles for different droplet sizes.
I was just thinking that. I remember seeing samples of the technique in the early 90's, when it became very much possible and not a big deal since separations were being prepared digitally anyway. I think the issue that kept print houses away from using it is that understanding how to adjust the press to keep the print good doesn't work right anymore. If the dot gain is too high or the band is starved for ink, it doesn't _look_ like the way press operators have learned to recognize the effects on the halftone. Consider that the halftone system was already good enough for the purpose -- they chose the resolution based on that need, in the first place -- and they didn't see the need for the improved quality.
As a graphic designer, I always like to talk to the printers that ran the work I did. There was a local shop in town here that had a huge Heidelberg 6-color press that did amazing work. The 6 color machines were meant to be used when there was a spot color (like a specific Pantone color a company used in branding) or other inks for special effects (like the UV spot gloss you see on high end packaging), but they could also do really interesting color separations for CMYK+ printing where they had an additional grey ink, or a solid hit opaque black ink instead of the more transparent key black used in regular CMYK printing. I think at one time they had an orange ink loaded because they were printing a beach scene in a catalog and it made it more vibrant. That same guy showed us a digital press that was basically an inkjet style system but using the oil-based offset printing inks and how it would use the inkjet style dithering you're talking about instead of screens that would make halftone rosettes. They used it mainly for glossy stocks like high-end catalogs and coffee table style books, since it was a lot more expensive to run, but it did beautiful work. I want to say it was a Ricoh.
One publication that I remember has used stochastic dithering in the past (no idea about now) is National Geographic. There was also a period in the 90s where they did a lot with the spot gloss you mention, doing nifty effects like selective spot gloss over matte black.
@@UD503J I worked for a holiday company in the late 90's, creating the artwork for brochures. We ran a second black which was for all the copy so the colour elements for pictures etc could be run in bulk then shorter runs (3 a year) just printing the text so amendments could be made. Huge offset presses were used for this, bigger than my house!
Stochastic screening is widely used in offset printing today. It became possible when Creo (the company I worked for) patented a square spot computer to plate laser head. Stochastic screening uses less ink to achieve the same density. I did the experiments to prove this and wrote a paper about it more than 15 years ago. Stochastic screening avoids moiré as well. Creo was bought out by Kodak about 15 years ago and they now own the patents and produce the laser heads. Almost all of the very high quality printing is done with stochastic screening.
The Moiré interference between dot screens is minimised by maximising the angle between colourants, but four colourants means those angles aren’t really large enough, so visible Moiré would still occur... so CMYK uses a sneaky trick: It only uses three angles really, for the three darkest inks - cyan, magenta and key. The lightest ink, yellow, gets the same angle as the darkest, key, but rotated by 45 degrees. This means that there is still interference between yellow and black, but the black totally overwhelms the yellow so you don’t notice. Pantone’s failed (mostly) Hexachrome process that uses six colourants uses a similar trick - with the green and orange inks sharing the screen angle of the magenta and cyan inks respectively. The trick there is simply to avoid using the shared inks at the same time - an added constraint on the colour separation process. (Hexachrome only really had an impact on the greetings card business, as it’s too costly for general colour printing and still not a wide enough gamut for packaging).
It’s almost 3am and I can’t sleep, but I can’t imagine a better video to keep me company. Thank you Posy for your incredible passion project of a channel.
This is actually blowing my mind. Zooming out of the microscopic view, those insane dot animations at 2:49 - 3:36 and that transition at 5:00... how do you come up with this stuff?? Its crazy!"!"
I watched that 5:00 transition five times. It feels so good!! I have always been fascinated with halftone since fine art school, this video is making me happy!! Thanks Posy
I would think a mixture of microscope and regular camera shots. Align them up with some corrected colors if needed and end up with these beautiful transitions.
@@parkerlreedI’m going crazy thinking about how many of these transitions he did and how much time it must have taken him to master the technique and perform it flawlessly over and over and over
My guess is some kind of automated scan of the page using a microscope lens or film scanner, stitched together into one composite image. Then use that as the start of the shot, match moving it in After Effects to join it to the camera move done using a practical slider/arm done in person. The only thing which doesn’t work in this scenario is the pin-sharp focus, which almost implies the entire shot is rendered-out, but the jump in the clip just after the sponsor message suggests that at least some of it was practical (in addition to the magazine flip and tape deck interaction - such flexes! Perhaps it was lit very strongly and a tiny aperture was used to keep everything in focus?
Just wow. You make those zooms so seamless that most people probably won't realise just how technically difficult it is to pull something like that off, the amount of work required. I don't normally do Patreon but your videos are so special I will make an exception.
I JUST started binging your channel, and I got the notification for an upload! So far, the macro shots transitioning to full shots is stunning... I always love the production quality with your videos, it feels like something from TV
When I was in elementary school, they had these very light magazines that we would use in history class, or to learn about economics, for some lessons. That was the first time I discovered halftone for myself, when I looked closely at the print. I noticed it in some of the textbooks as well. It was mind blowing to me, I think I vaguely remember telling some of my friends about the "little circle illusion"(as I called it), though I don't remember how they reacted exactly, or if they even paid attention to me. This kind of printing is fascinating. I'm happy someone had covered this overlooked topic in such a groovy, amazing way.
Your videos are just drop dead gorgeous. Your voice is amazing. Your editing skills are second-to-none. As soon as I can I'll absolutely support you on Patreon. Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with the world 😍❤️🙏
it’s 2:27AM August 4th 2023. Today is Friday, I’ll be at my bus stop in 4 hours and at school in 5. I feel like a toddler watching a calming TV show for children while already calm
Amazing! I am far from being an artist, more of an enthustiast at the very beginner level, but I've been very interested in halftones recently. It is astonishing how a dotted layout can create a whole picture.
This is one of my old jobs and something I love so info dump follows: Black is used because patches of solid CMY use 3 times the ink, easily go out of register causing coloured halos around the edges, and make the paper too wet causing it to physically distort and throw off the register everywhere else. That interference pattern is called a Moire pattern. The inkjets are using a Stochastic halftone pattern, which is basically breaking each one of those dots into an approximate spread of really tiny dots. This can also be used on Offset Litho instead of the standard halftones but it's *way* more expensive. The resolution of the halftone screens varies depending on the desired quality of the product and the stock used to print on, higher resolution screens won't transfer onto rough newspaper, so a screen as low as 85lpi (lines per inch, the resolution of the screen grid), whereas high quality printing would require clay faced paper and might use a 200lpi screen. Analog Repro departments had fixed percentage screens (10%, 20%...) in a variety of resolutions to best fit the stock and press, different percentages of each primary (CMYK) colour could be combined to reproduce any particular colour. Some halftone dot pattern reverse at 50%, so 20% is a colour dot but 80% is a dot shaped hole in solid colour. Offset Litho Presses can keep perfect register assuming the stock is good and ink weight isn't too heavy and the printing company is paid enough to care. Reprographics, the job of creating colour seperations for print from b/w artwork is a lost art, replaced entirely by computers over the course of the 90's. Pre photoshop there were very highly paid people that knew which seperations (C,M ,Y, or K) needed some of it's dots ever so slightly shrunk (with acid), or expanded (same process but on a negative) to manually alter the final combined colour, eg the precise tone of whisky in a glass on an advert might take days of tweaking the colour, proofing it (special manual press for short run printing), showing it to the client who might return it with 'redder here', 'more golden there' and repeat until the client signed off.
In the early 90's, I worked on halftones. I was developing software for hardware that would scan a print and monitor the printing press. Getting the printing right and consistent involves things such as ink film thickness, dot gain, and ink take-off.
Incredible video as always! The amount of work required to create these seamless zoom shots with variable lenses and lighting is astonishing! Beautiful music as well! We don’t deserve you Posy.
Still feels like "Sendung mit der Maus" and BBC had a child that grew up independently of it's parents resulting in a unique personality. Great content and always a joy to watch and listen to
I love this kind of stuff. A while back, I created a shader in Blender that can input any image texture, then display it with the colour halftone print effect. That proved to me that truly perfect dots aren't ideal... At particular zoom levels, the dots create an inteference pattern with the pixel resolution of the screen itself!
Your videos are so full of your affection for their subjects, and watching them sweeps me up in that affection, which is a real treasure. Thanks Posy :) Also I would love to have a Countless Dots T-shirt like yours. Beautiful design!
I was just playing Portal Reloaded before watching this, but I think this video messed with my head even more! Also, whoa! Nostalgia hit me like a brick when I saw the Construx Lunar Exploration Set at 9:59. I played with that as a child sometime in the early 90s
Heck yeah! I miss Construx! I have sets that are probably 30 years old and just gave them to my 6 year old nephew to tinker with. I think they're a great toy for STEM education too.
Amazing video as always! I'm a graphic designer from the UK and seeing the way you present halftone printing is incredible. I just wanted to add that when you spoke about the colours used in a halftone, the black colour used in printing is in fact called kobalt, which is where we get the k from CMYK printing. Also, I love the cover design for your new album, I'd kill to have it on a shirt like you showed in your video.
No, K stands for “Key” because the black separation typically (with middle to high black generation or under-colour removal) carries the majority of the detail and tonality of the image, so it is “key” to the reproduction. CMYK printing was invented in New York around 1900 and hence its initials are English. “Kobalt” is a German back-formation that makes no sense in English at all.
Im beginning to suspect this channel was created to justify the purchase of a macro lens and a collection of electronic obsessions. that being said I am completely here for it. Your genuine curiousity for how things work is infectious.
I've been fascinated with offset lithography for years now, so this video makes me extremely happy. The production quality that goes into these videos is incredible.
Oh, man, that Construx ad takes me way back. I used to play with those as a kid. Construx, K'nex, Zaks, Capsela. Good times, I think Zaks were my favorite.
I’ve always been fascinated with screen tones especially CMYK ones and I always like to look at printings real close and admire the screen print which I still do and I absolutely love the way it looks
You have the incredible ability to make us watch a 10-minute video about a thing that we don't usually notice at all just by making the video in such quality.
I've been in the printing I industry my whole adult life but my first fascination with halftone dots cam from a portion of a Volkswagen billboard ad that had large halftone dots that could be seen without magnification! Great analysis and artistic portrayal of the halftone dot!
Awsome video as always 😃 Watched it as soon as it appeared in my feed, definitely a new favourite channel! 3:41 Would love to get that print on a shirt!
My first paying job in photography was running halftone cameras for an advertising service outfit. It was amazing, everyday, all day, graphic artists coming in wanting fast turn around for advertising output to rush to the printers. Imagine all that costly time, travelling and waiting for turn around...all replaced ( or mostly so) by digital.
9:49 What program is running? My guess would be DESQview/TopView from 1985. The lower-right window seems to be a DIR listing, partly clipped on the left edge showing that windows can overlap. It seems to be operating in text mode, not graphics mode, and the font seems to be the normal display font.
Having worked as a pre-press / origination technician in my late teens and through to my late twenties this is a true geek-out video for me. Beautifully done!
Interested in the seamless zooms. At 4:52 you can see a resolution(?) change towards the right side of the screen. Am I correct in assuming that you took several shots, near, further, and far, and arranged the layers on top of each other and zoomed out to give the illusion of a smooth zoom effect? if so, it is very well done.
I'd speculate there's at least 3 or 4 shots and the extreme close-up shot edges is blended "on top" of a near shot one (5:22) and then the closer shots are faded out for the farther shots (5:30 and 5:35).
The closeup images would make nice pictures by themselves. Especially the ones where you can see the paper texture and the dots changing density from being dots on a white background to solid colour with white holes.
Might I suggest that you make a video dedicated to minerals? Many of them look mindblowing in macro, and the symmetry type of the crystal influences the look, you might find the physics as interesting as the mechanics of LCDs or floating droplets. And there is hardly one good video dedicated to that on RUclips, certainly not on your quality level Also, love you man, what a beautiful feat! As usual
I love halftones. Probably because I'm near-sighted and loved looking at newspapers when I was a wee one. Worked a bit in preprint, aligning film for the plates, and your beautiful video shows that halftones also reduces the effects of misalignment. Much easier to spot a misalignment with full coverage printing.
When I was younger I used to stop at my Nan's house in the Summer holidays and we'd stay up late watching How it's Made and similar shows. Your narration, presentation, and video topics really take me back there. Nan passed in 2018, but I know she'd have loved your videos (if we could have conviced her to use the internet!) Thank you for making me feel close to her again 🩷
It’s insane how much crisp quality you get from these practical elements
video compositing is magic
@@Paronak true
@@entroid6763 very true
Yeah I’m gonna guess it’s a combination of an overall photo combined with a macro photo in After Effects to zoom in and out
Good job on this one!
Your shots is so immaculately laid out and your cinematography is precise it almost feels like all these shots are 3D renders.
It's like I'm back in science class but better than I even remembered
@@ianmoore5502yeah he's got❤ that old science video vibe *nailed*
I was almost convinced that it was 3D when he showed the stereo setup.. Everything is so.... aligned 👌
The transitions from macro to handheld were completely seamless. Amazing video!
I could only catch them on the CD since the colors on it change depending on the exact camera settings and position
Caught all the transitions in the cockpit controls one but when you're in it for the content you can barely notice the transition. So impressed and definitely another Posy classic.
I noticed only one of them. And I'm rather sensitive to things like that!
Damn, watching on my phone and couldn't catch any, damn such quality camera work.
close, but no cigar
I can't remember the last time that a zoom out transition was this satisfying! Well done!
Yeah seriously. Better than a movie
my favorite typography RUclipsr
Have already watched this 7 times and can confirm this is a Posy classic
📢THIS 🔊 IS A ⚠ CERTIFIED POSY 🚨 CLASSIC‼
-> video uploaded 43 mins ago
-> comment made 42 mins ago
-> video is 10 mins long
Seems legit
@@aaronwestley3239x2
@@aaronwestley3239 he just watched it at 5000x speed
how do you think his channel name is pronounced? po-see or po-sy/ü? (y as in you as a vowel)
Posy is one of the very rare creators capable of blurring the line between documentarian content and impeccable art. 🙏
Reminds me of the Ahoy YT channel
Ah, every Posy video is like a short, blissful little vacation into a beautiful wonderous land. 🧘 One of the best creators on RUclips!
I whole-heartedly agree.
I agree❤
i second that
In a world of AI generated, fast-paced content, you are a breath of fresh air. From original concepts, to original (beautiful) visuals, to an original (beautiful) soundtrack - you are a shining example of the best parts of RUclips. If I had the money I wish I could personally finance the production of these vids lol but I don't... all I have is sharing it with friends, and my personal gratitude to your creativity...
is it me, or do you have literally everything I could image?
How the hell do u have 1.44M subs
@@TheJokerwho1aughs-w1kbought account
jes.
@@TheJokerwho1aughs-w1k They are obviously a DOS formatted 3.5" HD floppy, duh.
imagine buying subs and buying accounts lmao
FYI, the “diffusion” dithering of the inkjet (as opposed to the halftone dithering of the offset and screen printing) actually exists for offset printing, too, where it’s known as “stochastic” dithering. It’s more difficult to do, so it’s never become widespread, but it looks gorgeous.
Also, many inkjets by the early 2000s actually did use multiple droplet sizes. Epson’s piezo printheads actually produce multiple droplet sizes from the same nozzles, while Canon’s thermal printheads use separate nozzles for different droplet sizes.
I was just thinking that. I remember seeing samples of the technique in the early 90's, when it became very much possible and not a big deal since separations were being prepared digitally anyway.
I think the issue that kept print houses away from using it is that understanding how to adjust the press to keep the print good doesn't work right anymore. If the dot gain is too high or the band is starved for ink, it doesn't _look_ like the way press operators have learned to recognize the effects on the halftone.
Consider that the halftone system was already good enough for the purpose -- they chose the resolution based on that need, in the first place -- and they didn't see the need for the improved quality.
As a graphic designer, I always like to talk to the printers that ran the work I did. There was a local shop in town here that had a huge Heidelberg 6-color press that did amazing work. The 6 color machines were meant to be used when there was a spot color (like a specific Pantone color a company used in branding) or other inks for special effects (like the UV spot gloss you see on high end packaging), but they could also do really interesting color separations for CMYK+ printing where they had an additional grey ink, or a solid hit opaque black ink instead of the more transparent key black used in regular CMYK printing. I think at one time they had an orange ink loaded because they were printing a beach scene in a catalog and it made it more vibrant.
That same guy showed us a digital press that was basically an inkjet style system but using the oil-based offset printing inks and how it would use the inkjet style dithering you're talking about instead of screens that would make halftone rosettes. They used it mainly for glossy stocks like high-end catalogs and coffee table style books, since it was a lot more expensive to run, but it did beautiful work. I want to say it was a Ricoh.
One publication that I remember has used stochastic dithering in the past (no idea about now) is National Geographic. There was also a period in the 90s where they did a lot with the spot gloss you mention, doing nifty effects like selective spot gloss over matte black.
@@UD503J I worked for a holiday company in the late 90's, creating the artwork for brochures. We ran a second black which was for all the copy so the colour elements for pictures etc could be run in bulk then shorter runs (3 a year) just printing the text so amendments could be made. Huge offset presses were used for this, bigger than my house!
Stochastic screening is widely used in offset printing today. It became possible when Creo (the company I worked for) patented a square spot computer to plate laser head. Stochastic screening uses less ink to achieve the same density. I did the experiments to prove this and wrote a paper about it more than 15 years ago. Stochastic screening avoids moiré as well. Creo was bought out by Kodak about 15 years ago and they now own the patents and produce the laser heads. Almost all of the very high quality printing is done with stochastic screening.
The Moiré interference between dot screens is minimised by maximising the angle between colourants, but four colourants means those angles aren’t really large enough, so visible Moiré would still occur... so CMYK uses a sneaky trick: It only uses three angles really, for the three darkest inks - cyan, magenta and key. The lightest ink, yellow, gets the same angle as the darkest, key, but rotated by 45 degrees. This means that there is still interference between yellow and black, but the black totally overwhelms the yellow so you don’t notice.
Pantone’s failed (mostly) Hexachrome process that uses six colourants uses a similar trick - with the green and orange inks sharing the screen angle of the magenta and cyan inks respectively. The trick there is simply to avoid using the shared inks at the same time - an added constraint on the colour separation process. (Hexachrome only really had an impact on the greetings card business, as it’s too costly for general colour printing and still not a wide enough gamut for packaging).
It’s almost 3am and I can’t sleep, but I can’t imagine a better video to keep me company. Thank you Posy for your incredible passion project of a channel.
Hello fellow insomniac
It's exactly 3am here, we're 15 hours apart
Same :)
It's 3:05am for me!
It’s 2 am now
hello and welcome to night owl land we operate at night.
There is no way I can emphasize how much I love this channel.
+1
As a printer (pressman) I love seeing zoomed in video of half tones. The work that goes into making the prints is equally interesting!
I'm a pressman as well. 4-color process is pretty interesting but glad I don't do it on giant banners anymore. Time consuming and kind of a pain.
Babe, wake up. A new Posy just dropped
thanks babe
Who?
Me: the guy who designed my desktop cursor
dont replace the o with u, got hunted by the fbi 😢
@@harrytsang1501 I've been using that cursor set for so long now that I forgot this is the same guy that made it
😭😭😭
The enthusiasm in the phrase "Let me show you this Dot." is why I am subscribed to this channel
Your videos are some of the most chilled out, fascinating dives into things I never thought I'd be interested in. Can't wait to learn about dots!
Literally. I'm almost never interested in the topics before hands but I know I'm going to be in for a good ride
This is actually blowing my mind. Zooming out of the microscopic view, those insane dot animations at 2:49 - 3:36 and that transition at 5:00... how do you come up with this stuff?? Its crazy!"!"
I watched that 5:00 transition five times. It feels so good!! I have always been fascinated with halftone since fine art school, this video is making me happy!! Thanks Posy
We absolutely need a behind the scenes for this one
3:32 THAT TRANSITION BLEW MY MIND
When you learn atoms have mostly space inside them you understand how we are all only half tones.
No idea how you’ve filmed this but it’s like magic. Bravo.
I would think a mixture of microscope and regular camera shots. Align them up with some corrected colors if needed and end up with these beautiful transitions.
@@parkerlreedI’m going crazy thinking about how many of these transitions he did and how much time it must have taken him to master the technique and perform it flawlessly over and over and over
My guess is some kind of automated scan of the page using a microscope lens or film scanner, stitched together into one composite image. Then use that as the start of the shot, match moving it in After Effects to join it to the camera move done using a practical slider/arm done in person. The only thing which doesn’t work in this scenario is the pin-sharp focus, which almost implies the entire shot is rendered-out, but the jump in the clip just after the sponsor message suggests that at least some of it was practical (in addition to the magazine flip and tape deck interaction - such flexes! Perhaps it was lit very strongly and a tiny aperture was used to keep everything in focus?
I had a bunch of those Construx toys when I was a kid. Really brings me back. I wish I could've saved everything when I moved.
These must be some of the most seamless transitions I've ever seen!
Just wow. You make those zooms so seamless that most people probably won't realise just how technically difficult it is to pull something like that off, the amount of work required. I don't normally do Patreon but your videos are so special I will make an exception.
I JUST started binging your channel, and I got the notification for an upload! So far, the macro shots transitioning to full shots is stunning... I always love the production quality with your videos, it feels like something from TV
i feel like i’m watching a children’s show but made for adults, like the format of it. it’s very comforting i’m glad i found your channel
These animations are next level and the video is incredibly fascinating, good work man!
he doesn't make animations. he uses practical props, as in, he has all of what he has shown us on hand.
@@aqua-beryAlthough there are animations at 2:38
@@aqua-bery it's both but still
When I was in elementary school, they had these very light magazines that we would use in history class, or to learn about economics, for some lessons. That was the first time I discovered halftone for myself, when I looked closely at the print. I noticed it in some of the textbooks as well. It was mind blowing to me, I think I vaguely remember telling some of my friends about the "little circle illusion"(as I called it), though I don't remember how they reacted exactly, or if they even paid attention to me.
This kind of printing is fascinating. I'm happy someone had covered this overlooked topic in such a groovy, amazing way.
Your videos are just drop dead gorgeous. Your voice is amazing. Your editing skills are second-to-none. As soon as I can I'll absolutely support you on Patreon. Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with the world 😍❤️🙏
it’s 2:27AM August 4th 2023. Today is Friday, I’ll be at my bus stop in 4 hours and at school in 5.
I feel like a toddler watching a calming TV show for children while already calm
Amazing! I am far from being an artist, more of an enthustiast at the very beginner level, but I've been very interested in halftones recently. It is astonishing how a dotted layout can create a whole picture.
You do know there's a halftone filter in PhotoShop, right?
Very fun to experiment with.
This is one of my old jobs and something I love so info dump follows:
Black is used because patches of solid CMY use 3 times the ink, easily go out of register causing coloured halos around the edges, and make the paper too wet causing it to physically distort and throw off the register everywhere else.
That interference pattern is called a Moire pattern.
The inkjets are using a Stochastic halftone pattern, which is basically breaking each one of those dots into an approximate spread of really tiny dots. This can also be used on Offset Litho instead of the standard halftones but it's *way* more expensive.
The resolution of the halftone screens varies depending on the desired quality of the product and the stock used to print on, higher resolution screens won't transfer onto rough newspaper, so a screen as low as 85lpi (lines per inch, the resolution of the screen grid), whereas high quality printing would require clay faced paper and might use a 200lpi screen.
Analog Repro departments had fixed percentage screens (10%, 20%...) in a variety of resolutions to best fit the stock and press, different percentages of each primary (CMYK) colour could be combined to reproduce any particular colour.
Some halftone dot pattern reverse at 50%, so 20% is a colour dot but 80% is a dot shaped hole in solid colour.
Offset Litho Presses can keep perfect register assuming the stock is good and ink weight isn't too heavy and the printing company is paid enough to care.
Reprographics, the job of creating colour seperations for print from b/w artwork is a lost art, replaced entirely by computers over the course of the 90's.
Pre photoshop there were very highly paid people that knew which seperations (C,M ,Y, or K) needed some of it's dots ever so slightly shrunk (with acid), or expanded (same process but on a negative) to manually alter the final combined colour, eg the precise tone of whisky in a glass on an advert might take days of tweaking the colour, proofing it (special manual press for short run printing), showing it to the client who might return it with 'redder here', 'more golden there' and repeat until the client signed off.
The cinematography in this episode is wild
I hope this video blows up. So satisfying to watch the zoom out turn into such a clear image.
It's insane how underrated your channel is. Every video is a masterpiece of nice tunes and thought provoking ideas
this is my favorite PBS program
This guy is pushing the envelope in video production like a real G.
In the early 90's, I worked on halftones. I was developing software for hardware that would scan a print and monitor the printing press. Getting the printing right and consistent involves things such as ink film thickness, dot gain, and ink take-off.
Incredible video as always! The amount of work required to create these seamless zoom shots with variable lenses and lighting is astonishing! Beautiful music as well! We don’t deserve you Posy.
The next level is making a museum exhibit from the beautiful perspective you achieve.
The zooms/transitions are just incredible! Not to mention the music too :)
Awesome work once again!
Still feels like "Sendung mit der Maus" and BBC had a child that grew up independently of it's parents resulting in a unique personality. Great content and always a joy to watch and listen to
Woah those seamless zoom effects are crazy
I love this kind of stuff. A while back, I created a shader in Blender that can input any image texture, then display it with the colour halftone print effect. That proved to me that truly perfect dots aren't ideal... At particular zoom levels, the dots create an inteference pattern with the pixel resolution of the screen itself!
Your videos are so full of your affection for their subjects, and watching them sweeps me up in that affection, which is a real treasure. Thanks Posy :)
Also I would love to have a Countless Dots T-shirt like yours. Beautiful design!
Ok, but that Alfa Romeo logo somehow looking better from distance is trippy.
Entire video is so crisp, the supermacro is beautiful.
the amount of invisible cuts this video has is mind boggling. and it's so well done, too!
I swear posy can make anything entertaining
I was just playing Portal Reloaded before watching this, but I think this video messed with my head even more! Also, whoa! Nostalgia hit me like a brick when I saw the Construx Lunar Exploration Set at 9:59. I played with that as a child sometime in the early 90s
Heck yeah! I miss Construx! I have sets that are probably 30 years old and just gave them to my 6 year old nephew to tinker with. I think they're a great toy for STEM education too.
I had struggled to comprehend how such tiny dots could make up an image, and now I finally understand.
Your editing style just feels cozy for some reason. I can't quite explain why
4:14 A crack in the perfect zooms. You can see a cross-fades as he zooms in and transitionss to the higher-resolution scans.
Amazing video as always! I'm a graphic designer from the UK and seeing the way you present halftone printing is incredible. I just wanted to add that when you spoke about the colours used in a halftone, the black colour used in printing is in fact called kobalt, which is where we get the k from CMYK printing. Also, I love the cover design for your new album, I'd kill to have it on a shirt like you showed in your video.
Yeah, I'd totally buy one of those shirts, too.
Yeah, I really want that on a shirt too please!
Is is really called Kobalt? I'd never heard of that. I was taught CMYK stood for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key.
No, K stands for “Key” because the black separation typically (with middle to high black generation or under-colour removal) carries the majority of the detail and tonality of the image, so it is “key” to the reproduction. CMYK printing was invented in New York around 1900 and hence its initials are English. “Kobalt” is a German back-formation that makes no sense in English at all.
@@__Obscure__ Yes, it’s nonsense. “Key” was coined by the Eagle Printing Company of New York who invented the process.
When you look at the colors of the dots, it looks like there's an ecosystem in a few drops of pond water.
My mind is blown! How do you even film things like this, and have a such a smooth transition while keeping it consistent between different scales?!
Im beginning to suspect this channel was created to justify the purchase of a macro lens and a collection of electronic obsessions. that being said I am completely here for it. Your genuine curiousity for how things work is infectious.
I've been fascinated with offset lithography for years now, so this video makes me extremely happy. The production quality that goes into these videos is incredible.
Oh, man, that Construx ad takes me way back. I used to play with those as a kid. Construx, K'nex, Zaks, Capsela. Good times, I think Zaks were my favorite.
This is insane, I would love to see how this was made!
I love the skin like textures of the paper samples when you’ve fully zoomed in!
I love your videos posy!! Keep up the great work.
Love from australia
the zoom outs are amazing especially with a combined camera movement
0:04 music sounds similar to that smallest atom movie
I’ve always been fascinated with screen tones especially CMYK ones and I always like to look at printings real close and admire the screen print
which I still do and I absolutely love the way it looks
You have the incredible ability to make us watch a 10-minute video about a thing that we don't usually notice at all just by making the video in such quality.
I've been in the printing I industry my whole adult life but my first fascination with halftone dots cam from a portion of a Volkswagen billboard ad that had large halftone dots that could be seen without magnification! Great analysis and artistic portrayal of the halftone dot!
Awsome video as always 😃
Watched it as soon as it appeared in my feed, definitely a new favourite channel!
3:41 Would love to get that print on a shirt!
Art, pure art. Mesmerizing. Thanks for colourfully enlightening my day again.
not even a minute in, but already a great video! Yet another excellent production.
My first paying job in photography was running halftone cameras for an advertising service outfit. It was amazing, everyday, all day, graphic artists coming in wanting fast turn around for advertising output to rush to the printers. Imagine all that costly time, travelling and waiting for turn around...all replaced ( or mostly so) by digital.
It doesn't matter it's 5am, new Posy video is a must.
These macro zooms are INSANE. And the transition to the stereo, my god. The music is amazing, reminds me of Royksopp and Sigur Ros, well done.
9:49 What program is running?
My guess would be DESQview/TopView from 1985. The lower-right window seems to be a DIR listing, partly clipped on the left edge showing that windows can overlap. It seems to be operating in text mode, not graphics mode, and the font seems to be the normal display font.
i didnt think someone would actually answer- thank you for your insight!
Having worked as a pre-press / origination technician in my late teens and through to my late twenties this is a true geek-out video for me. Beautifully done!
10:56 IS THAT A FART?! 😂
no.
i would watch the making-of for this episode as fascinated as i just watched the episode itself. WOW!! these zooms are very well done! so clever.
Interested in the seamless zooms. At 4:52 you can see a resolution(?) change towards the right side of the screen. Am I correct in assuming that you took several shots, near, further, and far, and arranged the layers on top of each other and zoomed out to give the illusion of a smooth zoom effect? if so, it is very well done.
I'd speculate there's at least 3 or 4 shots and the extreme close-up shot edges is blended "on top" of a near shot one (5:22) and then the closer shots are faded out for the farther shots (5:30 and 5:35).
The closeup images would make nice pictures by themselves. Especially the ones where you can see the paper texture and the dots changing density from being dots on a white background to solid colour with white holes.
Geweldige video 👍🏻👍🏻😀
I can’t get over the fact that you not only saved all this old stuff, but the paper work & ads too!
Might I suggest that you make a video dedicated to minerals? Many of them look mindblowing in macro, and the symmetry type of the crystal influences the look, you might find the physics as interesting as the mechanics of LCDs or floating droplets. And there is hardly one good video dedicated to that on RUclips, certainly not on your quality level
Also, love you man, what a beautiful feat! As usual
When a grid's misaligned, with another right behind, that's a Moiré.
Hehe, very good! 😄
Fun, funky style.
I love the work of Dutch graphic designer, Karel Martens. He’s big on process colours, and - I think -halftone patterns
This is a RUclips video? For free?
Yeah?
the super smooth zooms added so much to this
Wow, that ink-jet print IS quite good, especially for coming from clear back from 2 whole decades ago!
Soothing music, soothing voiceover, soothing visuals. Why do all of these videos make me so hyped up over technology twice my age?
Being able to read the Dutch is a nice additional treat to your amazing videos. Thank you.
bro the visuals in this video is beyond amazing
I just can't get over how one guy can create a production better than multimillion dollar companies...!
I love halftones. Probably because I'm near-sighted and loved looking at newspapers when I was a wee one. Worked a bit in preprint, aligning film for the plates, and your beautiful video shows that halftones also reduces the effects of misalignment. Much easier to spot a misalignment with full coverage printing.
I have been working in the printing an typography world since 1996. This is probably the best explanation I have ever seen.
When I was younger I used to stop at my Nan's house in the Summer holidays and we'd stay up late watching How it's Made and similar shows. Your narration, presentation, and video topics really take me back there. Nan passed in 2018, but I know she'd have loved your videos (if we could have conviced her to use the internet!) Thank you for making me feel close to her again 🩷
You have, and I have to stress that I mean this, the most satisfying production on RUclips. As a 4K consumer I am very thankful. It's all beautiful.
From the cinematography to being such a thorough archivist, ye gods, this video is such a flex ♥️
I’m rather surprised RUclips’s video compression didn’t ruin the moirés. Beautiful and playful exploration of printing processes, thank you sir!
This is a certified Posy classic
Your video quality and audio design is on another level dude. I absolutely am enthralled with every video you make. Thank you.
unreasonably enchanting, i got giddy at some of these macro shots. stunning!