About
Digital Image Stabilization is the practice of shifting electronic images frame by frame to counteract camera movement made during recording.
Origin
On April 19th, 2011, Redditor Juu-hachi submitted an animated GIF featuring a stabilized clip from the Patterson-Gimlin of an unidentified subject purported to be the cryptid known as “Bigfoot” to the /r/pics[2] subreddit (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post received over 500 upvotes and 70 comments.
Spread
On November 5th, 2013, the /r/ImageStabilization[1] subreddit was launched for requests and submissions of stabilized video, gaining over 14,300 subscribers in the first six months. On February 19th, 2014, the arts and technology news blog The Creators Project[3] published an article about stabilized images, which highlighted several notable examples posted to Reddit.
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]Reddit – /r/ImageStabilization
[2]Reddit – Bigfoot like youve never seen him before
[3]The Creators Project – Up Your GIF Making Game With These Image Stabilization Tools