ABOUT THE PROJECT

The idea
behind Minko.

Minko began with a simple question: what might a video reveal if you could look through its full timeline, not just play it frame by frame?

WIDTH × HEIGHT × TIME

THE IDEA

A different way to read motion.

Inspired by Hermann Minkowski's way of thinking about space and time together, Minko treats a video as a three-dimensional frame stack: image width, image height, and time.

It is a visual exploration tool, not a physics simulation. It places video frames along a depth axis so paths, changes, and repeated movements can be viewed from different perspectives.

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THE NAMESAKE

Hermann Minkowski

In his 1908 lecture Space and Time, Minkowski described events as positions at particular times. The path of a moving point becomes a worldline: its history drawn through space and time.

Minko borrows that visual way of thinking. Its frame stack places video width and height alongside time, but it is not a model of relativity or a scientific space-time measurement.

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SPACE + TIME, AT A GLANCE

One event. A path through time.

This simplified diagram shows one spatial direction horizontally and time vertically. The diagonal boundaries represent paths traveled by light.

01 / EVENTA single where-and-when, marked by the bright point.

02 / WORLDLINEThe curved path connects successive events of a moving point.

03 / LIGHT CONEThe dashed diagonals show light paths from the event; they bound its past and future cones.

CREATED BY

Immanuel Valencia

Minko was developed by Immanuel Valencia at De La Salle University, Department of Biomedical, Manufacturing, and Robotics Engineering.

The project brings together video, spatial visualization, and interactive exploration in a browser-based tool.

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SEE IT FOR YOURSELF

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