3D movies "Mars in 3D"

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Michael Burke writes

>        I've been following the recent threads on 3D movies and thought
>some may find  this interesting.  I was at  a "meteor shower weekend"  at a
>hotel in the Catskill mountains last weekend.  There were discussions on
>various astronomy related topics.
>They showed "Mars in 3D".  It is a educational movie, in anaglyph format
>made for undergraduate level  students of astronomy.   It was made from
>data beamed from the Viking spacecraft in 1976.  There were several
>(hyperstereo) sequences  obtained while in orbit as the camera flew over
>high mountains and deep gorges.   It illustrated how nasa used the anaglyph
>images to select a landing site for the voyager spacecraft in 1976.
>        There were also several stereo scenes of the landscape taken from
>the lander portion of Viking as it sat on the surface of Mars.  A segment
>of the movie which had been filmed on earth showed the lander functioning.
>The high point was when the probe's shovel came out over the audience.  The
>stereo effect was as good as I have seen with anaglyph.  The titles and
>credits were also well done.
>It was informative and enjoyable.

The scene of the probe's shovel coming out of the screen is also on 
the VHS tape "3D-MAGIC" that comes with the 3D-TV system. It does come pretty
far out of the screen. The whole movie "Mars in 3D" is also available from
3D-TV.

Roland Lataille
 


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