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[P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ralph Johnston writes

>The latest INSIGHT computer catalog has two pairs of red/blue glasses bound
>into it.  It refers to their web pages as having 3D images.  I viewed them
>and its true. There are anaglyphs of some of their products.  Is the start
>of a trend in advertising on the WEB?  The URL is
>
>http://www.insight.com/web/3ddigit.html

Actually those anaglyph pics have been on there page for quite a while.
Personally I hope it is not a trend regarding their pics. I say this
because as much as I like 3D stuff from low end to high end stuff, I
can't excuse a commercial enterprise for showing such crappy anaglyph
pics. Sorry for my choice of words. They seem to have taken 2D pics
and converted them to 3D by cutting and pasting and not to well for
that matter. I have done some conversions of famous art in 2 hours that
looked better than that but which I still trashed after.

>I just added a scan of an old image of a group of kittens to my 3d cat web
>page.  From there you can link to my 2d pages if you want.  The legend on
>the card is:
>
>"photo 1878 By JP Soule copyright Kilburn Bros, Littleton, NH"
>
>Check it out at "http://www.ultranet.com/~copley/catsin3d.htm"

As for those cats in 3D they were great and so cute of course.
Can't wait to see those in anaglyph.
BTW I commented on a new program written by Dave Harvey that will
make stereo pairs automatically cropped and will also convert to
color anaglyph and LCD interlaced. This is shareware and has a trial
period of 30 days. I downloaded it from the authors homepage that he
posted here on P3D awhile back.
http://members.gnn.com/tronix3d/html/index.htm
It is called 3D-Factory.

Gabriel

P.S. As this was going to press Bob Wier posts

>I just took a look and they are pretty well done - a couple have rather
>strong retinal rivalry. One (of an IBM notebook) even has a stereo picture
>(tigers) on the LCD display!

Sorry Bob but as you mention there is strong retinal rivalry precisely
because they were not very well done as a describe above. :-(


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