3D Posters

[P3D RJ Thorpe <thorpe@xxxxxxxx>]

There are a couple of fairly easy solutions to the 11x17 anaglyph
posters mentioned here over the last few days.

The easiest would be to produce them in something like pagemaker,
take them to a service bureau, and have them run out. A local photo
dealer provides this service and when I called them, they said they
charged 7 cents per square inch for the runout. 11x17 would run
about $13 apiece at that price. I forgot to ask if there was any
kind of volume discount. This is a high-end plotter. You can get
any size print you want. Even up to about 36x48 I think.

Another place has a Canon CLC something or other. They charge $9
for setup and so much per print after that. One print cost $3 but
by the time you get to 20 prints, the cost per print is down to 
$1.39 so...   1 print = $12, 20 prints = $36.80. Not bad. 11x17
is the limit here.

Another even cheaper way is to run out 20 8.5x11 anaglyphs on a small,
inexpensive color printer and paste them to an 11x17 regular xerox.
This sounds like it could be cheesy but if designed properly it can
be quite effective. I think the original poster said the anaglyph
was only going to be PART of the poster anyway.

How do you get the anaglyph? There is an excellent tutorial in Bob
Mannle's site. The URL is:

     http://www.3d-web.com/ana_demo/pana.htm

I tried this and was quite happy with the results, both on screen and
in a print. My picture was in color so there were some problems as
Bob mentions in his site. But it is easy enough to convert the frames
to grayscale before doing the red/blue/green channel business. You can
see the onscreen version of this at:

     http://www.skep.com/3D/piper.jpg

Pardon the stereo window. It's much harder to control in anaglyph
than in prints or slides.

If you choose route number 1 or 2, I would consider doing the whole
poster in anaglyph, title, dates, and location copy - everything.

-- 
RJ Thorpe
Cedar Rapids, IA
mailto:thorpe@xxxxxxxx
http://www.skep.com


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