P3D Re: silver reflective paint: help!

[Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don Radovich wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having a rough time finding the archives at the moment and I need an
> answer fairly quickly if anyone can help.  I seem to recall a discussion
> about making your own 3D screen out of, say, sheetrock and silver
> paint.  Does this work or would you need some kind of ribbed/lenticular
> material?  And what kind of paint would be best?  Any
> help/answers/experience would be tremendously appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Don

>From the 3D-CD copy of the archives:

> Steve Spicer wrote in Dec. 1995:
> Currently our club uses a sheet of anodised aluminium
> 8 feet wide and 4 feet high. It's OK, it's bright, it depolarises
> _very_slightly_, it's too small though - but a big advantage is that the
> surface is very tough and isn't affected when touched or rubbed. Prior to
> that we used a smooth sheet of masonite spay painted with silver paint. 

and,

> Alan Lewis said in Jan. 1996:
> I used Rustoleum silver spray paint on a piece of "foamcore"
> artboard.  Spray light even coats in horiz., vert, one diagonal and the other
> diagonal( letting each dry before changing the direction).  It worked very
> well, but did have some "beaming" the closer you got to viewing along the
> lens axis.   It is very reflective so the image is bright.

Hope this helps... =)

Dan Shelley
dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan


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