Top secret toyota prototype spotted in downtown portland!

"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce) 08/15/2013 at 12:54 • Filed to: car WTF, yaris, picture, concept, prototype

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This yaris was caught, undisguised, driving around downtown portland......could toyota have some new propulsion plans afoot?

In all seriousness this was a picture a friend took on facebook and had no idea how a six-wheeled yaris came out of it. Serious, photography people, what happened here?

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/15/2013 at 12:57

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Yaris, it's a fucked up car!

William Byrd > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/15/2013 at 13:00

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iPhone panoramic shot? If something is moving, bits of it will appear more than once as you pan across. I took one at a baseball game last night and the beer man walking up the aisle was in it more than once.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/15/2013 at 13:01

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The discolorations nearby, the camber, and general look of the wheel kind of suggest the "copied" wheel is the rear one. What made the camera drool all over itself this way, I don't know. Possibly trying to movement/shake-eliminate on a moving target - got a blurred wheel/object the first time and pulled another pass from the CMOS, maybe, a few fractions of a second later.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > William Byrd 08/15/2013 at 13:01

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Not panoramic, and not iPhone. She uses android and has no clue how to do anything more advanced than point and shoot.

HammerheadFistpunch > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/15/2013 at 13:02

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Panorama stitch.

ttyymmnn > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/15/2013 at 13:02

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It probably had something to do with the speed of the car and the way the camera sensor scanned the scene. There was a story on Gizmodo (or one of those sites) that had a photo of a person throwing a frisbee. The frisbee was still in the person's hand, but the shadow on the ground showed the frisbee free of the thrower's hand. The camera scanned the scene top to bottom, and when it got to the shadow, the frisbee had been thrown. That's just a guess, though. Not sure why ti wouldn't have affected more of the image. Or else your friend is punking you.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > HammerheadFistpunch 08/15/2013 at 13:03

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Not panorama.

William Byrd > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/15/2013 at 13:04

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Well then I'm back to top secret Toyota testing facility. It's the only solution.

HammerheadFistpunch > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/15/2013 at 13:04

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Then your friend shopped this and didn't tell you. Camera's don't behave like that. The only possible reason for this to happen is some type of double exposure so he could have shot in HDR mode or something, but this wasn't a single shot.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > HammerheadFistpunch 08/15/2013 at 13:09

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Well she did this on a phone so probably not

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > ttyymmnn 08/15/2013 at 13:10

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Well actually this was a picture she posted a little while ago and I was the first to notice the six wheeled car.

HammerheadFistpunch > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/15/2013 at 13:15

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HDR composting then. most phones have this feature that takes 2 or 3 shots and stitches them internally.

HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn 08/15/2013 at 13:25

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Rolling shutter, and no, this isn't the kind of thing rolling shutter would produce. Scan times are in the hundreth of a second range so you will see skew with a moving object, but not random object misplacement...and certainly not a copy of an object.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > HammerheadFistpunch 08/15/2013 at 13:26

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Someone else suggested that and I think between that and the reflection/spray from a puddle on the ground that's probably what caused it.

HammerheadFistpunch > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/15/2013 at 13:31

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i don't think there are any optical tricks at play like splash or spray. I think this was a 2 shot hdr, notice how undefined the details are in the face of the women in the forefront? its because she is moving slightly between shot 1 and 2 and the software is trying to reconcile it all, like it did with the passing car. The fact that the rainbow is visible but the shadows are properly exposed (mostly) suggest HDR mode to me.

RS Hole, I forgot my password for 8 months > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/15/2013 at 13:35

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Nice 240 Wagon!

feather-throttle-not-hair > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/15/2013 at 13:42

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iphone HDR.

It takes two pictures and then tries to combine them. If you move, or if an object is moving it will turn out like this. (quit staring at the mclaren for a second and look at the car in the background)

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > feather-throttle-not-hair 08/15/2013 at 13:48

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It's not just iPhones anymore that do this then, but yeah that looks to be the reason.