P3D Re: Anaglyph History

[Lawrence W Kaufman <kaufman3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ray Zone wrote:

> Subscribers to p-3d may not realize it but Tony Alderson has almost twenty
> years professional experience with stereography.  He is the first person
> (to my knowledge) to transfer polychromatic anaglyphs to fabric for "color
> 3-D" T-shirts as well as the first to create a multicolor line anaglyph for
> printing on the backcover of a 3-D comic titled Battle for a Three
> Dimensional World which I wrote in 1982.
>
> Other professional stereographic achievements of Tony's include:  Special
> effects for Metalstorm 3-D, a feature length stereoscopic film of 1983 and
> 3-D conversions for the widescreen lenticular "Star Wars" trading cards
> issued by Topps in 1997.  In addition Tony wrote and drew the first
> "freevision" 3-D comic (3-D Jonestown) in 1984 and has assisted my own 3-D
> comic publication efforts by converting many B&W "flat" art pages to 3-D.
>
> When Boris Starosta, no mean stereographer himself, remarks upon the
> difficulties of practicing 3-D professionally, he addresses issues that
> Tony Alderson has been facing for many years.

WOW! And Tony is a judge at this year's 3D Movie/Video Competition!See my next
posting.

Lawrence


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