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Stereoscopic 3D Silicon Graphics HyperCube Logo

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

This is a stereoscopic 3D animated version of the Silicon Graphics SGI HyperCube Logo. It was created in Autodesk Maya. It should be viewed with Red / Cyan 3D anaglyph glasses. For the best experience go full screen and set the resolution to 720p.

Stereoscopic WW2 Sea Mine Phantogram

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

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 Red / Cyan Anglyph

WW2 Sea Mine - Stereoscopic Red / Cyan Anaglyph

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Stereoscopic 3D BBQ Hamburgers Phantogram

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

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

BBQ Hamburgers Phantogram Preview

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Canon EOS D60 DSLR Camera Phantogram

Saturday, August 7th, 2010
Canon D60 Phantogram Preview

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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Maya Rendering – Anaglyph Spiral Stairs

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Here is an abstract Autodesk Maya rendering of a spiral staircase in Anaglyph Stereoscopic 3D.

Anaglyph - Spiral Stairs

Anaglyph - Spiral Stairs

Maya Scene

Maya Scene

Canon Powershot SD400 Phantogram

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

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.

Printed Canon SD400 Phantogram

Canon SD400 Phantogram Anaglyph Preview

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