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I did the same, as many other did:

That website was of some inspiration, great too see it's still online!

Fellow scannercam hobbyist checking in! Did you also discover the trick of taking "HDR" photographs by setting the software to do a "colour" scan with every colour channel set to a different exposure?

Anyway, in my case the hobby led me down the rabbit hole of slitscanning and other spacetime-warping artworks, such as Bill Spinhoven's "It's About Time" (who was one of my tutors in art school, and AFAIK was the first artist to do this in a real-time installation)

http://www.spinhoven.nl/work/EN/workitsabouttime2.htm

These day's it's quite easy to do with software. Here's a test of one of my own prototypes made with Processing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_7uWAUIjQU

I went down this rabbit hole myself, it's great fun. On our camera we noticed The RGB sensor data lined up well moving right-to-left, but misaligned when scanning left-to-right, creating a subtle rainbow effect.

http://topologo.com/animations/scan.html

Wow, that's great! Thanks for the links!

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