Re: [photo-3d] Walk-In Stereo / phantograms

["John A. Rupkalvis" <stereoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On the subject of giant anaglyphs, it might be of interest that a few years
ago Ray Zone made what I think was the first (and possibly only) full size
anaglyph billboard in Hollywood.

JR

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Subject: [photo-3d] Walk-In Stereo / phantograms


> Quentin Burke wrote:
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> >Yes on the king size analglyphs! At the last NSA in Mesa (or possibly
Green
> >Bay), and also at ISU Lindau, a couple of people had huge anaglyphs (I
seem
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> What you saw in these places were anamorphic anaglyph prints: phantograms.
> (Phantograms, and the history of the term phantogram itself, have been a
> topic of extensive discussion on this list in the recent past - check the
> archives for some interesting reading).
>
> At Lindau, you probably saw phantograms by Achim Bahr.  His largest I
> believe is one of the Castle at Neuschwanstein in Bavaria (I've not seen
> it).  Big, but not lifesize...  I don't know about his most recent ones,
> but the one's I've seen are all hand drawn!  He may use a 3d computer
model
> and plotter to guide his work, but the final stereo pair images used to
> print the phantograms are indeed drawn by hand.  They are quite amazing.
>
> >to recall one was of a horse, another a nude) printed out on, I guess,
some
>
> At Green Bay in '99, the life-size nude was my work.  It is a photographic
> phantogram, and I believe unique given its 1:1 scale and subject matter.
> The print is three by seven feet in size, and is also the subject of an
> amusing "dual format" self portrait stereo slide that can be previewed
> (with or without anaglyph glasses) on my phantogram page:
>
> http://www.starosta.com/3dshowcase/iphanto.html
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> The two phantogram ponies at Green Bay were photographed by Lynn Butler
> with an S1 camera.  Prior to Green Bay I agreed to make the attempt to
turn
> the stereo pairs into phantograms using my digital methods.  I ended up
> unhappy with the result because the possible 3d viewing geometries could
> not be well-matched with the taking geometry (which was unknown, in any
> case); nevertheless, those prints are apparently working well enough,
> providing quite a bit of enjoyment to most people who see them.
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> I got started with the whole phantogram thing after a lively e-discussion
> with "phantoboy" Springsteen, triggered by the publication of one of
Bahr's
> phantograms in fall/1998.  Two other people appear to be active in this
> strange medium: Steve Aubrey of California, who makes amazing photographic
> aerial cityscape phantograms, and a fellow whose name no one seems to know
> (list members?), that was showing off his prints at Mesa this year.  He
was
> also claiming to have filed for a patent on this type of imagemaking - but
> I only heard about him, and cannot speculate how he made his images.
>
> Boris
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> - What is natural and what is beautiful are, in their purest state,
> - indistinguishable.
> -                                     - David Bayles & Ted Orland
> -                                       from the book _Art & Fear_
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