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Smooth

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Location: Mount Panorama, Australia
Registered: 21 Jul 2004
3D Anaglyth Crowd Scene Panorama
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 at 10:24 GMT
Obviously you will REQUIRE red/cyan 3D anaglyth GLASSES to view the true effect.

Making 3D anaglyth panoramas is difficult at the best of times. More so, if objects are moving.
It equates to "static scenes" = hard. "moving object scenes" = very hard.
This scene is just a random crowd scene with "no models". Nobody knew what the hell I was doing! As is clear by the dumb struck looks on their faces.

I'm not going to tell you it is or isn't perfect or throw any excuses. It is what it is - a hell of a lot of work as far as hours are concerned.

Here are the viewing options:

Grayscale/B&W:
www.omnipix.net/temp/3d/grayscale
Anaglyth corrected Full Colour:
www.omnipix.net/temp/3d/colour
Comments from the 3D Glass waring audiance encouraged.

Regards, Smooth cool
www.omnipix.com.au
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John Houghton

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Location: Hitchin, United Kingdom
Registered: 17 Jan 2005
Re: 3D Anaglyth Crowd Scene Panorama
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 at 14:29 GMT
I think you did a great job. The problems must have been horrendous. I prefer the b&w version - a cleaner viewing experience IMO.

John
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Mark Houston

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Location: Ferndale, Michigan, United States
Registered: 23 Aug 2005
Re: 3D Anaglyth Crowd Scene Panorama
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 at 18:18 GMT
Verrrrry Cool Smooth...Looks great on my monitor. I really like the Panorama store front.
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Judy-A

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Location: Edmonton, Canada
Registered: 20 Jan 2010
Re: 3D Anaglyth Crowd Scene Panorama
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 at 18:42 GMT
Kudos to you, Smooth, for your unrelenting inventiveness.

I appreciate all the work and gear it must have taken to make these panos, but my response is ...

... motion sickness. sad

The storefront sign made me smile.

This technique is worth exploring for mountain scenes, though. I’ve often been disappointed at how the shapes and distances in a mountain range or geological formation are missing in a flat-image panorama.

Judy
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Smooth

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Location: Mount Panorama, Australia
Registered: 21 Jul 2004
Re: 3D Anaglyth Crowd Scene Panorama
Posted: 11 Oct 2011 at 5:44 GMT

John Houghton said:

I think you did a great job. The problems must have been horrendous.
Yes, horrendous x2.

John Houghton said:

I prefer the b&w version - a cleaner viewing experience IMO.
I tend to agree with you John. But colour is expected. Thank you for you feedback.

Mark Houston said:

Verrrrry Cool Smooth...Looks great on my monitor. I really like the Panorama store front.
Thanks Mark, I also think it's cool! Yes, lots of Panorama named items around this neck of the woods. All named after Mt Panorama the famous race track that overlooks the city of Bathurst. tinyurl.com/mt-panorama

Judy-A said:

Kudos to you, Smooth, for your unrelenting inventiveness.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Judy-A said:

I appreciate all the work and gear it must have taken to make these panos, but my response is ...

... motion sickness. sad
Sorry to hear that Judy. I find that you need to let your eyes adjust wearing the glasses and the closer fitting they are the better.

Judy-A said:

The storefront sign made me smile.
smile Although not intentional at all.

Judy-A said:

This technique is worth exploring for mountain scenes, though. I’ve often been disappointed at how the shapes and distances in a mountain range or geological formation are missing in a flat-image panorama.
Much easier to do when objects are in the distance. As with all parallax problems.

Regards, Smooth cool
www.omnipix.com.au
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Smooth

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Location: Mount Panorama, Australia
Registered: 21 Jul 2004
Re: 3D Anaglyth Crowd Scene Panorama
Posted: 11 Oct 2011 at 6:37 GMT
For those who can't see because of the lack of glasses, you might like to purchase a decent set very cheaply from ebay.
tinyurl.com/3d-anaglyph-glasses


For those unaware with the challenges these 3D anaglyph's pose here is a small introduction:

The scene must be shot twice at the same time. Typically using two cameras. A left camera and a right camera (left eye, right eye). In this case, both cameras are mounted on the one panohead. Neither of each is central to the NPP. In fact, both are equal distances away from the centerline on the lower rail. You can try this by moving your camera 70mm or more from your perfect 0 position on the lower rail. Shoot and stitch. devil

Obviously parallax errors will be huge! So to minimise this you need to shoot images closer together. Meaning a lot more images. While this sorts out most of the parallax stitching issues. It means you must mask out any areas that moved between frames. OK, so you get your head around this but then realise you have to match these masks with both left and right images in different stitches. This is because a persons face, arm, legs etc position must be exactly the same for each, both left and right panoramas. Otherwise the 3D effect just isn't going to work properly.

The faster the scene is shot the better. The more images the better (although adds to the shear amount of masking required). This requires fast cameras (fps), fast shutter speeds and fast memory cards. Oh and a fast robotic panohead helps.

My panorama is made from 54 images (each camera) shot in 12 seconds using Canon 7D cameras, Sigma f/3.5 8mm Fisheye Lenses. 600x Lexar Compact UDMA Flash Cards on top a Seitz Roundshot VR Drive "speed" tinyurl.com/vr-drive-speed with custom assembled panohead & wiring utilising a Nodal Ninja R1 panohead and Really Right Stuff stereo rail among other custom components.

Then assembled with PTGui Pro 9.1, Photoshop and about 16 solid hours of my life.

Regards, Smooth cool
www.omnipix.com.au
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DorinDXN

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Location: Timisoara, Romania
Registered: 14 Nov 2006
Re: 3D Anaglyth Crowd Scene Panorama
Posted: 11 Oct 2011 at 6:59 GMT
Congrats Smooth, it looks indeed good.

About the red-cyan anaglyph glasses, if you have the chance to buy one, take with you a laser pointer, the best glasses are those who don't allow the the red ray going through the cyan (say blue) filter, mean with laser on you cannot see the red dot, and so for any blue led you might have on at your phone cell or so, the blue light suppose to not be seen through the red filter, the better the above the better results (less ghosts)

cheers,
Dorin
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