how to find a location using only the shadow
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- tool here: colab.research...
ty again to gabor and galen for being apart of this video, and their contribution to the tool
galen: @galen_reich / twitter
gabor: @gabor_friesen / twitter
Getting doxxed by the shadow my nose makes in a selfie
😂😂
It'll be easy to doxx you specifically your nose is long af
Competitive Racism
i see that shadow on your desk, watch out rainbolt.
Hahahahahahaahahahahah mhaaaaaahahahahahaha
Well akshually, he has stated in previous videos that he currently resides in Bangkok, Thailand 🤓
Oh he’s back in Thailand again?
@@gwennvy Yeah? That's where he lives permanently since 2 years. You should recognize the apartment if you watch his videos regularly. The only time when he's not there is when he's traveling fore whatever reason.
HAHAH 😂😂
If rainbolt snaps and decides to dox everyone we are so screwed
the funny thing is almost everyone who does know all this info doesn't want to randomly dox people. either 1. they're good people, 2. they only do it for pay or specific causes, or 3. both
it's a lot like martial arts: they're both very easily weaponizable, but the communities around both of them are almost cultishly big both on defending yourself from bad uses of the act and on using your abilities responsibly
Dox everyone? What would that look like? A list of ~8 billion names and the corresponding coordinates?
i mean he just taught you how to do it
Everyone is on earthhhh
Certain people already have the ability to dox people with phones. :)
I remember when 4chan did this to track down the location of Shia LaBeouff's livestream. They also used the flight paths of planes overhead to narrow down the location even further, and once they had the location down to a few miles, a couple dudes went driving through the area honking their horn until it was heard on the stream.
They did this multiple times to capture that flag :)
his fault for being a political snowflake
Everything's a sundial
Everything is a compass, if you know the time
@@PingSharp all you really need to know is whether it's before or after noon though
that just cuts the yellow circle in half
bro always knows where his other sock is
no cus the sock doesnt send him pictures... or does it.
Not if his socks in a cupboard thats completely dark with no shadow
Well, this is a standard piece of Tupperware, they really only made lids for this model in one color, so if we assume that it’s not too faded, we can tell from the appearance of the color that this is not natural light illuminating the room. The sock’s shadow isn’t going to be much use to us in this case.
If you have the compass direction, you can pinpoint the location further since the shadow will be pointing away from the middle of the circle.
That picture was in the morning and the shadow was to the right.
Sun rises on the East, sets on the West.
So the sun was to the left of the picture, the left on the picture at the time must have been East because it was morning so right was West, which means it was looking South.
So yeah the compass can be inferred too
Yeah, if you know the local time AND UTC time, you could technically get just the sliver(s) in the correct time zone(s). That would narrow it down very quickly (although you would basically already know which area to look in because you know the timezone at that point, this would just narrow down within the timezone)
dude this shit has made me scared to post any photos of anything ever online
Good. The less information you put online, the better off you'll be.
As it should
The fact you are commenting here on YT gives a ton of information about you to others.
the replies are crazzyyyy
@@KyleBaran90 idk man. I see all my friends posting shit on instagram and stuff and its hard not to get fomo about not being able to share things
I always wondered if someone made such a tool, I know there have been tables for this for at least 100 years, but that sounds like a pain in the ass to use
Its so helpful that you keep the mouse moving when drawing attention to a spot. It helps find it so much haha
Awesome video, Rainbolt. Now tell us the Tamworth, Australia news story.
Ok ok you’re good, now try to find the location of Escobar’s hidden money
If you find it can you tell it to me too for educational purposes?
then get a boat and become the pirate king hehe
Gladly. Photos please?
I think a good feature for this tool is to be able to set the direction of a shadow (like North, South-West etc.). Knowing this information should reduce number of possible places it can be in tremendously.
I personaly am practicing doing this exact thing but in my head and during a geoguessr round. I obviously only estimate it tho, but so far it works quite well!
How close can you get by assuming some range of hours? Or is the activity of Google cars very constrained
@@madghostek3026 I dont need to assume the range of hours because I have a compas. Instead what I need to do is guess the season. because depending on the season (more exact would be the month) the earth is tilted differently twards/ away from the sun.
Those timestamp watermark on photos is now scary 💀
eratosthenes in shambles
One other possible improvement would be that if you enter a date and local time that hasn't happened yet in some time zones, to not include those areas in the bands of possible locations.
I think you should do more videos on geo location
Is no one going to mention that one of the people RAINBOLT is interviewing just pixelates and disappears?
This technique was used in an episode of Numb3rs
ingenious, fantastic idea, garbor and great implementation, galen! now RB is gonna deliver even more mindboggling results.
yeah that shadow definitely looks south african to me
This is how I imagine the AIs would learn to play. Calculate sun angles and use that to deduce longitude
I think if I measure the height and shadow of bottom-right homie I'll find Chris Williamson's stomping ground
Bro gonna upload how to find a location using a single blade of grass next
Much easier than when there are multiple blades of grass obstructing each other’s shadows
We need Merch back! i check every video hoping to see new merch or old ones released again or a link in the desc. if theres any merch please let me know, i wanna buy something, love this guy and i want to support :)
thats literally a tutorial ive been waiting for
Very interesting tool, thank you for sharing it!
thank god Mr. Reich isnt named after his father, who's named after HIS father
a terrain type selector or natural language text input field could help inform location probability. even a screenshot input for image analysis
Can you output the band(s) as a shapefile or KML so the data can be brought into mapping software, instead of displaying the results on a static map?
i remember my geography teacher testing us by asking where in the world a picture was taken given the shadows in the picture + the date and time lol
FBI gonna have a field trip with this one
3:25 Can you explain how to do this? (ie. Finding the location of the camera using landmarks and an image?) Recently, I've been trying to do some geolocation using some random pictures I find in Facebook or TH-cam, but while I can find the general area, I can't wrap my head around with that.
"given the world..." BRO
You should a video using this tool where you try and find a location off a livestream or image that doesn't show the time, I think it'd be pretty interesting to watch.
Should add doing a second or third reading to triangulate possible positions
wouldn't having an exact time and you knowing whether its morning or evening (for this example its 11am, and since the daylight will move west and you know you're in the first half of daylight, i.e. the left side of the circle), you be able to narrow it down to a half-circle?
also, having a livestream would allow you to narrow it down to an exact latitude by using multiple time-points.
figuring out where people live with shadows now?? gg
Glad I don’t have to find the hypotenuse (after learning the height and shadow)-I’m guessing the project does use that? -edit oh right the hypotenuse is the sun’s angle
and then you do an extra step of trig to determine the solution set on earth in which your triangle lies
you can work out the tangent and then the inverse tangent which gives you the angle of the sun in the sky
I guess if you had a compass you would know exactly where on the white line you are
It has always been possible and I assumed people knew it, and I still assume so.
Bellingcat? Rofl
The UTC vs Local time is not simply a visual difference, but a completely different set of results. Is it possible to set both of these at the same time? (If you know both, you thereby also know the relevant timezone, eliminating a LOT of the world to begin with, leaving only the intersection of the "circle view" and "two line view".
You can calculate them both separately and if you want overlap the (possible locations part of both) images manually in an editor. The tool itself is still being worked on, but interesting suggestion
They did this in Homeland or something
You can't hide from him: he'll find you.
Is so-called Daylight Savings Time taken into account?
Also, you'd expect to see discontinuities in the map for time zones.
At this point I’m surprised the CIA hasn’t hired this man
Should it not increase accuracy with multiple input (ratio X time X and ratio Y time Y)?
Yes, but you do need multiple inputs for that. Right now you can just recalculate it and mentally overlap the images. In the future the tool will probably allow for something like this
If you knew your bearing/orientation would that be able to pinpoint the location much further?
Find the Flag would be too easy now! Hahaha! Love this
This is actually insane
if you make enough cuts in a video do you even have any cuts at all?
Zigzag would've found it without your tool
Can you add multiple data points and sum them on the map to pin point the location ?
fed posting
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so now I can find someone's house based on a shadow of a tree in their backyard. Kinda scary NGL. Someone could find me knowing only my country and a single photo of a stick stuck in the ground
We all know Rainbolt can pinpoint the exact location without measuring the shadow.
very interesting watch man
if you had the data of the clounds with the time and date, couldn't you also do this with just an image of a cloud?
couldn't it give you the precise location or at least the precise area of the shadow instead of a big circle around the earth if you could give it the exact direction of the shadow? For example, in 1:42, if we knew the shadow was pointing directly north, then the location would the at the top of the circle, since the shadow is directing itself away from the sun and in this case, if a person would stand exactly at the center of the circle the sun would be directly above him so for every point on the circle the sunlight is coming from the center of the center of the circle thus the shadow at the point on the top of the circle would point directly north, and no other point on the circle would do that, so we would get the exact location
Does the shadow need to be perpendicular to the camera shot? Because the camera perspective will affect the shadow length in pixels spanned.
Oh 9:50
ok question, if you are looking at the shadow from an angle, doesn't that change the lengths entirely? let's say that bush you were looking at before, don't you need to be looking it perfectly from a perpendicular angle to measure it correctly? if you rotate the camera slightly you will get wildly different measurements
i assume the object's height scales proportinately with the shadows length as you change the angle.
edit: nvm theres no way thats true lmao, like looking at it from above. also apparently they explain this problem in the video with a pretty simple solution
bro is the real life ranpo from bungo stray dogs
Commenting for the algorithm
Can you feed this data into the Bellingcat OSM tool?
At this point I feel like the only way to avoid being geolocated when posting a video would be to strip all the metadata and film a completely empty room that is painted completely black without any reflections
Now do it when it’s overcast
so the sun will be directly over the exact center of that circle right?
Yep
do a demo using it to find a location pls
what app is he using to display the pixels and to draw the outline?
A better tool is PowerToys.
Install and activate it with:
Windows + Shift + M
will open the Screen Ruler.
Enjoy.
Shia LaBeouf better watch out
imagine doing a live stream and someone finds you like this... no hacking or anythung just looking at your shadow
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New meta: that shadow looks Polish
Only works during the day. You'll have to trust the stars then.
if the sky is sufficiently clear, i've heard of people using that as well to geolocate.
Billing at is CIA
cool tool, very old technology
says who?
wow
im the president of uruguay
this is so scary
I'm not even safe outside in nature any more 😭
Flat Earthers are going to freak.
this proves the sun is local.
you assume that I can deduct that the shadow is in south africa sjskj
4chan and forensics been doing this for years. That's how they found all the shia lebouf he will not divide us flags. Good to see it being easy to use for normies tho
Geoguessers be like
Day 2 of asking rainbolt to teach me how to play geoguessr
This guy can be hired by the government to help to track n find the freeport papua's ILLEGALLY corrupted n hidden mountain of gold & treasures !!!
Super recommended👍👍
🤣🤣😀😀
Next video… how to find a location without opening your eyes. 😂
fbi shit over here
Now combine it with AI and you can find anything
it was already possible
deduce*
Disprove THIS round-earthers!
cuh
I know where u are, by the shadow on your forehead
Bro can find anything😅
Lol Gabor is my friend
So random seeing this on his insta story😭
Fourth
first comment , 10000% you cant find me , well maby in your dreams 😂