Re: Alaskan 3D tape

[P3D bob wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>But after my eyes adjusted to the dark right filter (by the way,
>the glasses suck over glasses) I was very impressed by the 3D -
>right away I realized that this wasn't pulfrich effect - static
>shots exhibited depth. Shots of bears had really good depth, one
>charge looked like it was going to come right out of the set,
>they also had underwater shots of salmon swimming up the river
>and the TV set looked like a fish tank - excellent effect. The
>tram segment was kinda lame, but the caribou and native dancers
>were cool, once again good 3D. The flying segments were really,
>really, really cool. One of our glacier pilots, Doug Geeting, is
>an accomplished acrobatic flyer, and they had him flying his
>Pitts Special over the glaciers and through the mountains of the
>Alaska Range - Incredible scenery, with a guy doing loops, rolls
>and the standard tricks. The 3D was fantastic! Cameras mounted
>on the tail, wing and canopy, as well as helicopter overviews.
>Really cool.
>


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>Dave Worrell (dworrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>Publications Technician
>State of Alaska
>Section of Epidemiology

A long time ago (like in the range of 15 years perhaps) I was watching
a tv newscast (or something on Discovery, or the like) talking about
a new stereo/video technique. They showed a brief sample on a football
game which involved dollying down the field. Now this sounds like Pu - 
but I wasn't wearing any glasses. The amazing thing was that when the
switched back to the announcers, they had the tape running on a monitor
behind them (must have been gen-locked - I didn't see any noise bars or
anything) and while the announcers looked normal, the taped looked 
3D even on the *monitor* behind them! 

There was very noticible flicker, though. I seem to recall it had been
developed by some Universitery researchers at an east coast school, and
they were looking for development/production money. Later on there was
some comment on it, with them saying it was a very simple effect, but
they wouldn't say exactly what they were doing.

I assume the flicker was so objectionable that they never got anywhere
with it.

Boy do I wish I'd had the VCR running when that came thru...

--BW

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