Re: 3D Lenticular Toy Story

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 14:02:10 +0000
>From: P3D  Marcus Warrington comments:
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>Shopping in ASDA the other day and my eldest shouted me to the cereal 
>isle..(trained him well:) ). Shreddies (by Nestle) are giving away "3D Toy 
>Story motion cards", there are four to collect. 
>
>That was the good news... now the bad...
>
>Bought two packs (and I dont even like em..). ..both my packets contained the
>same view (Buzz tapping his wrist control panel), and I can't see any 3D..
>The lenticuls run horizontally and the card is flipped up/down to see the 
>motion, so each eye is seeing the same view for each video frame !!
>
>I think what Nestles are saying (but in a very misleading way) is that the 
>scenes on the motion cards are video clips that feature motion in the Z 
>direction (perspective wise..)
>

They are ignorantly or otherwise following the industry *sub*-standard that
says any image created from a 3D environment is itself a 3D image.
(technically most photos would qualify as this kind of 3D) That makes any of
the frames they choose to use from *Toy Story* conveniently into so-called
*3D* images. The key here is the word *motion* which indicates that the fake
3D images are arranged as a motion sequence on a moving lenticular not a 3D
lenticular. The pity is they had stereo 3D available...but I don't think you
can present both motion and 3D in the same lenticular. If it is possible,
I'd like to hear about it...

Business makes a lot of money on this too-conveniently misleading practice
which seems similar in many respects to the recent reports of stores holding
sales which they somehow fail to tell their computer about...even after
repeatedly being notified of the errors! If they were losing money because
of such things it would be changed before you could blink twice.....

Larry Berlin

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