Yesterday my family discovered a buried WW2 sea mine in the garden of our cottage near the ocean. From doing a bit of research on the internet the rusted sea mine looks a bit like a British MK14 Naval Mine. If anyone has more knowledge on naval mines, I would love to hear from you. The sea mine is hollow on the inside and quite rusted. I photographed the sea mine using my Canon Powershot camera and took two photos hand-held to try and later create a stereoscopic phantogram. The pictures below are meant to be viewed with red / cyan 3D glasses.

I used Apple Shake to prepare the phantogram and have recently devised a script that uses a series of nodes for handling anaglyph stereoscopic compositing that lets you line up stereo photos and register them properly. I used two corner-pin nodes to align the ground plane to create the phantogram. The Shake script ends with a move3D node to create a real-time phantogram -45° degree simulated viewing angle. Shake also has a region of interest feature called the DOD - "Domain of Definition" that can let you tune a specific part of the image in real-time at 4K resolution.

WW2 Sea Mine - Stereoscopic Red / Cyan Anaglyph

WW2 Sea Mine - Stereoscopic Phantogram Preview

WW2 Sea Mine Phantogram - Click for a high-resolution printable version.

Apple Shake - Real-time Phantogram Preview

2 Responses to “Stereoscopic WW2 Sea Mine Phantogram”

1. Dave says:

   June 21, 2011 at 3:05 pm

   That actually looks more like a WWI mine.
2. Andrew says:

   June 23, 2011 at 10:40 am

   Hi Dave.

   That's interesting that it might be a WW1 sea mine!

   I'd like to know more about it. Are you able to tell the type / model of sea mine from the photo?