P3D Re: Chromadepth & Chromatek

[Ronald Beck <ronald-beck@xxxxxx>]

The glasses I received in my Wendy's 3D comic book say "The ChromaDepth
(tm) lenses in these glasses are licensed from and manufactured by
Chromatek Inc., N.Y., N.Y.

When I view the Wendy's comic that the glasses came in, it does exhibit
a 3D quality in that the warmer colors seem to rise off the page and the
cooler colors seem to sink into the page.  From previous discussions
about the glasses, they apparently do act similar to a prism in that
they spread the colors, thus creating an "inter-occular offset" that's
different for each color.  For all the technical details as well as
examples and a wealth of additional information, I recommend browsing
through...

        http://www.chromatek.com

As for the question of "space" between the objects viewed via
ChromaDepth(tm), IMHO there's space between the objects.  They appear,
to me, as if I were looking at an image pair of the same scene.  

Browse through the Chromatek ChromaDepth primer to get an idea of how
the whole thing works.  On the suggestion of this primer, I went through
several of my underwater photos and found several that display greath
depth when viewed through my Wendy's glasses.  Those that displayed
depth best were those which had deep blue backgrounds with something
red/orange in the foreground (like a big sponge or colorful coral).  

Of course, not all my photos displayed depth accurately.  Some of the
photos of divers wearing orange vests and blue wetsuits really looked
pretty bizzarre.  Still, it's an interesting phenomenon.

Anyway, I hope this helps answer a few questions about ChromaDepth.  For
me, it's just another way to "see" depth in a 2D picture.

Regards,
Ron

P.S. One year vendors were selling ChromaDepth glasses during the laser
show at the Texas State Fair.  Supposedly if you viewed the laser show
through the glasses you'd see 3D.  Well, I don't remember how well it
worked which probably means it was less than spectacular.  Besides, most
of the laser "drawings" were a single color anyway which would pretty
much nullify any depth queues arising from different colors.


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