Wednesday, 15 July 2009
3D iphone
3D Camera adds depth to your iPhone photography
3D photo apps are not new to the iPhone platform, but a new app from Juicy Bits looks promising in terms of making those pictures with depth a lot easier to take and view.
3D Camera 1.1 [US$1.99, click opens iTunes] is now available for iPhone OS 2.2 and 3.0 devices, and it lets you take photos that use one of three methods to create the illusion of 3D: red/cyan anaglyphs that require those funky 3D glasses, stereograms that create 3D images when your eyes look at them a certain way, and wiggle stereograms (or wiggle-grams) that use animated GIF images to provide the "depth".
To take the photos, you use one of two methods. If you're planning on taking an anaglyph or sterogram, you take one picture, move the iPhone camera slightly to the right, and take another photo. To make a wiggle stereogram, you point directly at the same object from two slightly different vantage points. The app provides instructions on exactly how to take the two photos each time you launch it.
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Arts & Crafts with the Boulder Acoustic Society!
Arts & Crafts with the Boulder Acoustic Society!
By Kiernan Maletsky in Upbeats and BeatdownsFriday, Jul. 10 2009 @ 2:35PM
You could purloin a copy of Boulder Acoustic Society's new album, Punchline, using whatever methods you kids use to rip music off the internet, but then how would you see the band in 3D?
When you purchase a hard copy of Punchline, out August 18th on Nine Mile Records, not only do you get the satisfaction of supporting a deserving local band, you also get your very own "Stereoscopic" viewing kit. We've spent the last half-hour playing with it for your previewing pleasure.
Step 1: The thing starts out shaped like a CD case. Hang on, folks, we're just getting started.
Step 2: Take the instructional sleeve off, pull the CD out from its hidey-hole in the back of the package, and put it in your player of choice. Let the fresh folk wash over you.
Step 3: Read the instructions. If you're a wuss, that is. Come on, people, it's not that hard. Don't even look at that picture. We can do this.
Step 4: A bend here, a Velcro there, and bam! You've got your very own cardboard View-Master.
Step 5: Place one of the five photo inserts in the appropriate slots. I know it seems like Kailin Yong's fiddle is going to poke you in the eye, but you're safe, I promise.
Sure, it's a little gimmicky, but you have to admire the attention to detail. That probably costs a lot more to manufacture, and I challenge you to resist the temptation to try it out if you get your hands on Punchline.
By Kiernan Maletsky in Upbeats and BeatdownsFriday, Jul. 10 2009 @ 2:35PM
You could purloin a copy of Boulder Acoustic Society's new album, Punchline, using whatever methods you kids use to rip music off the internet, but then how would you see the band in 3D?
When you purchase a hard copy of Punchline, out August 18th on Nine Mile Records, not only do you get the satisfaction of supporting a deserving local band, you also get your very own "Stereoscopic" viewing kit. We've spent the last half-hour playing with it for your previewing pleasure.
Step 1: The thing starts out shaped like a CD case. Hang on, folks, we're just getting started.
Step 2: Take the instructional sleeve off, pull the CD out from its hidey-hole in the back of the package, and put it in your player of choice. Let the fresh folk wash over you.
Step 3: Read the instructions. If you're a wuss, that is. Come on, people, it's not that hard. Don't even look at that picture. We can do this.
Step 4: A bend here, a Velcro there, and bam! You've got your very own cardboard View-Master.
Step 5: Place one of the five photo inserts in the appropriate slots. I know it seems like Kailin Yong's fiddle is going to poke you in the eye, but you're safe, I promise.
Sure, it's a little gimmicky, but you have to admire the attention to detail. That probably costs a lot more to manufacture, and I challenge you to resist the temptation to try it out if you get your hands on Punchline.
Ετικέτες
3D Marketing,
3D Viewers,
Stereo Pair,
Stereophotography
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Coraline 3d - Bluray & DVD
Henry Selick's "Coraline" is a smart adaptation of Neil Gaiman's extremely popular award-winning novella. Selick's screenplay is excellent and faithful without being a carbon-copy of Gaiman's story, and Selick adds some of his own dialogue to the film, so his contribution is most certainly not only visual, and chooses which dialogue to use from the novel wisely. Less of a horror story than the novella and more of a dark fantasy, "Coraline" features a well-written and well-drawn lead character and brings the novel's bizarre world to life without compromise. The film's fantasy world grows more bizarre each time we see it, and is as discomforting as it is fun. I missed the singing rats from the novella, but this was more than compensated for by the visual splendor of the garden scene, and there are numerous other examples of the changes from the novel making total sense as Selick's vision of the story differs from Gaiman, but doesn't betray the original work of art, only compliments it. The voice cast is very good and one cannot praise the spectacular animation enough. I was very pleased with the 3D presentation here, it was very, very rarely (only once or twice) used as a 'cool effect', and overall was very tastefully used to give the visuals more depth. Perhaps the first really good film to have a wide release in 2009, and looking at the next few weeks I see more than one film I'm moderately interested in, so this might end up being a pretty good year.
Ετικέτες
3D BLU RAY,
3D Cinema,
3D Comics,
3D DVD,
IMAX
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Michael Jackson 3D
Ο Jackson ετοίμαζε φαντασμαγορικό 3D οπτικό υλικό για τις συναυλίες
Σχεδόν δύο εβδομάδες πριν από το θάνατό του, ο Michael Jackson είχε τελειώσει τα γυρίσματα ενός πολύπλοκου οπτικού θεάματος με τίτλο «The Dome Project». Το υλικό προοριζόταν να προβληθεί σε γιγαντοοθόνη στη σκηνή των επερχόμενων συναυλιών του στο Λονδίνο και αποτελείται από τρισδιάστατες εικόνες και πλάνα που θα συνόδευαν την ερμηνεία του στις συναυλίες.
«Ήταν μια πρωτοποριακή δουλειά», δήλωσε ο Vince Pace, η εταιρεία του οποίου ήταν υπεύθυνη για τις ειδικές κάμερες που κινηματογραφούν σε ένα νέο τρισδιάστατο σύστημα που ο ίδιος δημιούργησε μαζί με το σκηνοθέτη James Cameron.
Δύο άτομα που ενεπλάκησαν στο project, αλλά δεν μπορούν να αποκαλύψουν τα ονόματά τους λόγω εμπιστευτικών συμβολαίων που έχουν υπογράψει, επιβεβαίωσαν την ύπαρξη του project στο Associated Press. Σύμφωνα με αυτές τις πηγές, η προετοιμασία κράτησε πέντε εβδομάδες και τα γυρίσματα έγιναν μεταξύ 1-9 Ιουνίου στα Culver Studios, εκεί όπου πριν από 70 χρόνια είχε κινηματογραφηθεί η υπερπαραγωγή «Όσα Παίρνει Ο Άνεμος».
Τέσσερα γιγαντιαία σκηνικά είχαν κατασκευαστεί, θυμίζοντας παλιότερες δουλειές του Jackson και ειδικά το βιντεοκλίπ του «Thriller» από το 1983: ένα νεκροταφείο, ένα γιγάντιο ομοίωμα του Michael Jackson ως λυκανθρώπου, μια πυκνή ζούγκλα και μία οικοδομή, στις σκαλωσιές της οποίας θα προβάλλονταν διάφορα άλλες εικόνες. «Με την τρισδιάστατη τεχνολογία, το κοινό θα είχε την εντύπωση ότι θα ξαναζούσε την εμπειρία του «Thriller», σα να βρισκόταν εκεί», συμπλήρωσε ο Pace.
Ο Βασιλιάς της Ποπ βρισκόταν στα πλατώ τις περισσότερες ημέρες και τα μαραθώνια γυρίσματα κρατούσαν συχνά μέχρι τις πρώτες πρωινές ώρες. Ήταν πολύ αδυνατισμένος και ωχρός, και συνοδευόταν από πλήθος σωματοφυλάκων και σεκιουριτάδων. Είχε ανάλαφρο βήμα, αν και κάποια στιγμή χρειάστηκε βοήθεια για να κατέβει μια σκάλα. Παρ’ όλα αυτά, άφησε θερμές αναμνήσεις στα μέλη του συνεργείου, στα οποία συστήθηκε προσωπικά και τα χαιρετούσε όποτε βρισκόταν εκεί.
Το «Dome Project» βρισκόταν στη φάση του μοντάζ και της ψηφιακής επεξεργασίας όταν πέθανε ο Jackson. Υπολογιζόταν να είναι έτοιμο τον επόμενο μήνα, αλλά τώρα κανείς δεν μπορεί να πει με σιγουριά ποια θα είναι η τύχη του.
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