[Taron]

What a brilliant idea to have a stereoscopy forum where it really should be - inside a 3d artists hub!

That shouldn't exclude the insanely dilligent 2d artists, who'd like to do a stereo image, but it's most natural to those, who virtually have to just spin the camera around a Null (or however you prefer).

How to view:

- most privileged are those, who have a proper monitor and fancily synced 3d goggle setup, while they may have to go through the trouble of putting two images together in their viewer...

- still privileged are those, who have anaglyph glasses, be it cyan/red or yellow/blue. I noticed that cyan/red works best for maintaining proper brightness

- least privileged are those, who can cross their eyes for longer than 30sec and walk away without running into walls. To cover larger formats without become a M. Feldman Jr. I noticed that crossing eyes is easier to handle, while normally a relaxed staring through the monitor to overlay left and right images is less consequential.

So I'll offer cross-eye and cyan/red anaglyph images with my little experiments. I hope you'll like them. If anyone wants to, I wrote a silly little stereo filter for After FX that overlays them with the option to maximize red chromatically correct. It also offers a blue/yellow choice. Just ask and I'll post it.

I'll get started with my latest doodle "Freakerge". Hopefully they'll show right in the post now...

I would be thrilled if you guys like that stuff and join in as well. They are so easy to make and offer some revelations here and there!

[Shaderhacker]

Glad to have you aboard! This'll be interesting..

[Hoff]

Taron, long time fan of yours

I'm a huge stero buff and I am really interested in this technology. I was at the Autodesk party on Monday night at Siggraph this year, and they had so much stereo stuff it blew my mind. Editing stereo cameras right in maya with glasses on...wow.

I use After Effects, I would love to see what your plugin is about.

Looking forward to seeing where this forum goes!

[Taron]

Believe it or not, I didn't even go down to Siggraph this year, although it's just 20 minutes away from where I live, haha...

But I did go to our Gallery opening at the Gnomon School, presenting our first RabbitHoles on Tuesday. Have you been there, too? If not, you certainly should have, because it's Holograms and really a blast. I got the two I made at home now and they're such pearls... eh... I mean, the Hologram aspect of it and I somehow did pick soothing colors, hahaha. Honestly, wasn't meant as self-praise.

Attached you'll find my little stereo filter. It just combines left and right images into one anaglyph image (red/cyan or blue/yellow), with a chromatically corrected booster as option for red.

If you apply the filter to the left side, you just need to select the right side and be done with it.
If you want to offset one side, you can have an offset filter before the stereo plugin, while you then obviously only move the left side, but it's nice and quick.
It really couldn't be any more simple I think.

I'm making these little filters every now and then, so you could well make a "taronites" folder in your after effects/plug-ins....

Besides, if you had the ZbornToy, you could turn height fields (Zdepth) to stereo. I've done that for a 10k resolution show, which saved our booties, since it rendered it in seconds for that resolution, while a talking water face in stereo out of any package would've been days of rendertime for the sequences. BUT....I'm just saying....

(...the trick is the caustics in zbtoy, you use two instances of the layer and "add" them. Shine a red direct light through one and a cyan through the other. Projected with a refraction of 1.0 and the "accurate" refracting mode it projects perfect 3d onto the background, rotating the depth field as if the light was a camera. One light from the left, one from the right and you get your anaglyph renders of anything in almost realtime...)

Oh, man, and before I forget: Thank you so very much, sincerely, I'm happy all this time has been so much more than I could've known. Honestly, it makes it sometimes a little tough to focus just on what I want to focus on. Fighting this sense of obligation to something that's almost abstract: How to reflect all that respect. But it's been that kind of true focus, purely driven by intense curiosity and pleasure, that made all of this happen in the first place, you know. But still...it means a lot to me to read this!


Don't forget the attached afx plugin!

[TheAddar]

wow. appreciating the cross-eye view.