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Looking at those photos, I wonder if a "time algorithm" could reconstruct them into a "normal" photo?

Probably not, as the slit is kept looking at one plane. You could turn it into a video one pixel wide, though.

It might be interesting to see a video where each frame is one photo of this, and over time it goes through the different X-positions. Effectively swapping the horizontal and time axis in a video.

You would need multiple slits to be recorded at the same time, but that would just be separating a still frame from a video stream.

If you start with a video you can do this. You'd transform an X x Y x T dataset (X x Y dimensional frames shown over a period 0-T) into a T x Y x X dataset (T x Y dimensional frames shown over a period 0-X).

For a long video you'd get a very wide image that varies over a pretty short duration. A 1920x1080 video clip that's 80 seconds long @24 fps would come out right. It'll still be 1920x1080 and 80 seconds long after transformation.

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