Slit-Scan Time Jump — trending format for art styles

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A jumper hangs mid-air while the world behind smears into vertical time streaks, then snaps back on landing.

What it does

A locked-off shot of someone leaping: while they hang mid-air, everything behind them smears into vertical color streaks (a slit-scan or time-displacement effect), and the frame snaps back to normal on landing. François Vogel's 2023 piece pulled 346K views in a July 2026 repost, so the effect is evergreen. An agent needs a static-camera source clip (the user's footage or one generated with Kling v3), a subject matte, and a time-displacement pass in which each column samples frame t − f(x) from a ring buffer (numpy or WebGL), then composites the subject back over the streaks.

Status

A format people ask for that has no dedicated skill yet. Make it with the skills on the use-case pages below, or with varg directly.

Example: https://x.com/Inspector_9/status/2074860025047052396

How an agent would make it: Locked-off clip (user footage or Kling v3) → subject matte → time displacement from a frame ring buffer (numpy or WebGL) → composite the subject back → render

Models it drives: kling_v3, seedance_2_5

Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/want-slit-scan-time-jump.mp4 — François Vogel's 'Time & space jump': he leaps off a rock in a pine forest and, while he hangs mid-air, everything behind him smears into vertical slit-scan streaks (first 8 s of 18 s; the landing snap-back follows) (credit: François Vogel (@_francois_vogel), via Brian (@Inspector_9), https://x.com/Inspector_9/status/2074860025047052396)

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