Re: Printing Anaglyph 3-D

[P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Hutchison replies to Sam Wang's query about printing anaglyph
images to a color printer. Yea, your lucky to have a laser color 
printer to play with. I have to resort to a 600dpi B&W HP  printer.
Excellent quality, but alas no anaglyphs.  :-(

I guess, with the CLC700, (Canon Color Laser Printer) you can input 
digital directly? I have done a few color anaglyph print, but had to
resort to copying them to floppy, and having my local film developer
print them out on a dye-sub printer. I get 8 by 10 inch (or different
combination of sizes) anaglyphs prints back after a few minutes and
the quality is excellent. I have been lucky so far, that the machine
seems to be set up properly for the colors. I was worried about that,
the first time. Anyways, the only drawback, is that it costs about
$7.50 US, which is not bad, compared to the hassle of photographing
off a monitor and then getting prints from that. Don't know how well,
that would work, since their are more variables to contend with and
the price will come out almost the same, if not more.

I wonder if it would be worthwhile to try anaglphs with the new Epson
600 printers. Anybody tried that, other than using expensive pro
printers? Something the common man, can experiment with at home. Or
is the technology for reproducing colors, not there yet? 
 
>The overlap areas are a nice, slightly warm, grey, and the red and
>cyan areas seem to work well with the old STARLOG Fantastic 3-D
>anaglyph viewers that I had made up about 15 years ago. I do keep
>my anaglyphs tuned to pretty low contrast, I find that helps
>viewablity quite a lot.

Yeap, I remember the issue they were made for! They were for the 1982
Starlog Photo Guidebook, Fantastic 3-D. This was an excellent recap of
the history and technology of 3-D. I still have the glasses inside the
cover. Excellent book, and enjoyed it alot. It reminds me of Dan Symmes
book, Amazing 3-D. Both were having. :-)

Gabriel


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