RE: [photo-3d] looking for lenticular plastic

[Gabriel Jacob <gjacob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Where can I buy (has anybody got for sale?) small quantities of lenticular
> plastics? (possibly on-line or anyway by credit card).
> Sergio

What you might want to do, is just reclaim some old finished lenticulars.
If you don't have any, you can purchase cheap printed lenticulars,
assuming they are available locally. An aprox. 28x21mm lenticular sells
for a few dollars. The ruler type ones are even cheaper. If you can't find
these and interested going this route, email me offlist and I'll check if
they are still available.

It's pretty easy to reclaim. Just soak them in warm water and gently scrub
away the paper. This works very well, since most often the image is printed
on the paper. If the image is printed directly on the lenticular then there
would be a problem of course, but most often it is not.

You won't have the option of specifying the lenticular pitch of course, but I
think for laser or ink jet printing, the coarser pitch (the ones above are) will
be more suitable.

It is an interesting area for exploration. I've seen some software on the web
available for purchase, but I think the price is geared for professional use. If
you do a search on the net, you'll find it. You can also just use any 3-D 
program that does interlacing and use that to make lenticular images. Rotate
the image 90 degrees before interlacing it. Scale and print it, then carefully
place the lenticular material directly over it. The placement is critical but not
overly hard.

I haven't persued this much, other than very simple flicker images, but it
looks very interesting. For sure others are playing around with this, but
surprisingly little is reported. Anyone have any experiences with this
exciting form of 3-D?

Gabriel

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