Andrew Hazelden's Blog

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

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This is a Phantogram of hamburgers cooking on a BBQ grill. You should view these stereoscopic anaglyph images with red / cyan glasses. On the Phantogram image the grill surface is set to have zero depth, the hamburgers pop-up and the BBQ briquettes sink downwards. The hamburger patties had their depth enhanced in Apple Shake to make them “pop” even more off the page.

BBQ Hamburgers Phantogram Preview

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Canon D60 Phantogram Preview

This is a Phantogram of a Canon EOS D60 DSLR Camera. Use Red / Cyan 3d Glasses to view it. The photos were taken with a stereo separation of 1 cm. The stereoscopic images were processed in Apple Shake.

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This is a Phantogram of a Canon Powershot SD400 camera. Red / Cyan 3D glasses are required to view this stereoscopic image.  I think that this is my best Phantogram to date, and I am really happy with it. I processed the images in Apple Shake. I have now decided to show a preview of the printed Phantograms so people can see what they look like before they print them.

Canon SD400 Phantogram Anaglyph Preview

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Printed SGI O2 Phantogram image

Today I created a printable phantogram image of my SGI O2 computer. A phantogram is an anaglyph stereoscopic image that tries to pop-up off the page when viewed from about 16 inches away at a 45° degree angle. It is viewed with red / cyan glasses. It is best experienced printed off in color on letter sized photo paper. If you have an Apple iPad, I would love to hear from you on how it looks.

I prepared the phantogram image in Apple Shake using two cornerpin nodes to make a perspectival anamorphosis from the left and right images.

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Shorter Youtube 3d version of a Random Dot Stereogram.

This is my first stereoscopic 3D experiment with random dot stereograms.  It is best viewed in Anaglyph mode with red / cyan glasses at 720p HD resolution, in full screen mode. Here is a link to the Wikipedia page on Random Dot Stereograms.

Below is a 640×360 resolution version in MPEG 4 format. I have noticed that the random dot pattern is hard to compress and makes large file sizes.

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