[photo-3d] JR Quotes

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <drt-3d@xxxxxxx>]

John, I really think you should make an effort to trim
your quotes.  The nice information you provide us here
could stand alone without any quote.  Some people receive
the list via digests and these are unnecessarily inflated
by these quotes, IMO.

George Themelis


At 09:09 PM 11/1/00 -0800, you wrote:
>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.
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>JR
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>Subject: [photo-3d] Walk-In Stereo / phantograms
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>> 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).
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>> 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.
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>> >to recall one was of a horse, another a nude) printed out on, I guess,
>some
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>> 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:
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>> 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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>> Boris Starosta, big chief             boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Dynamic Symmetry, LLC                 http://www.starosta.com
>> usa - 804 979 3930                    http://www.starosta.com/3dshowcase
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>> Currently showing at The Observatory. Info: ...3dshowcase/technobot.html
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