[photo-3d] Re: "3d" action freeze (HELP!!!)

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I posed these questions about the 3d/panning ads on the panorama club 
on yahoo.  Some movie buffs answered.  You can join and read the 
archives.  It was a month or more ago.  Search clubs on Yahoo for 
panorama.  Anyone can join.  Another crossover with 3d:  someone 
produced a 3d panorama, (as rb anaglyph), url is posted.-

-- In photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx, Dan Vint <dvint@xxxx> wrote:
> If you can get a copy of the Matrix movie on DVD there is an 
included
> making of the movie segment. They show the similar effect was 
achieved with 
> the required blue screens to hide the cameras from each other as 
well as the
> several hundred Nikon cameras that were computer controlled to shoot
> a forwards and backwards sequence - pretty cool stuff, now if I 
only had a
> couple of hundred Nikons lying around!
> 
> ..dan
> 
> > 
> > In some movies or TV broadcasts (mainly advertisements or cult 
videos) we
> > can see the action "frozen" while the camera is panning around 
the scene.
> > It isn't stereoscopy, but the 3d effect is impressive. The effect 
is
> > obtained by inserting in the movie a sequency (left-to-right or 
right to
> > left, or both) of still frames from multiple cameras set around 








the scene.
> > The shutters are fired simultaneously.
> > Here in Italy I can find cheap IR controlled photo cameras at 
less than $50
> > each, so may be I can afford some experiments, but I need to know 
more about
> > this technique.
> > -How is it called in technical jargon?
> > -what is the minimal number of cameras I can use?
> > -where (possibly in the web) can i get  additional info?
> > all help will be very appreciated.
> > Sergio
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