P3D Re: stereo/pufrich/multicam

[Allen Forkum <forkum@xxxxxxxx>]

Bob Wier wrote:

> However, I've never gotten the impression of depth from those that I'm getting from the current technique. Maybe because the ones Ive seen show motion in the subject against a stationary background (more or less) whereas what is happening now is a stationalry object against a moving background... Quite a while ago, I bought a book with most (or all) of the Muybridge sequences printed in it. If I ever get some time, I might try sticking together a few of those to see what happens.<

Bob:

If the book you happen to have is "Muybridge: Human Figure in Motion" (Dover
Publications 1955), then check out plate 171 of a woman spanking a child.  It
uses the multiple-cameras/same-instant-exposure method (as opposed to the
cameras firing at different times in sequence that the large majority of his
studies utilize).  The plate illustrates the same basic method they're using
in these current commercials.

I'm with you on being excited about seeing this technique used.  It is such a
fantastic effect, it makes one wonder why it wasn't exploited more, and
sooner.  Like stereophotography, it's an old technology that still has a
"Wow!" effect on modern viewers.

--Allen Forkum


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