[photo-3d] Your Saturday Toronto Star Newspaper in 3-D!

["Gabriel Jacob" <gjacob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ron Labbe writes:

>Unfortunatlely, since the color range of newspaper printing is very
limited-
>the quality of the printed anaglyphs is generally poor at best. RGB
>presentations (as on a computer monitor) are the BEST way to show anaglyph!
>So it's hard to imagine that the printed versions are better. The samples I
>saw on the web were REALLY bad!
http://king.thestar.ca/3Dphotos/summit/index.html.

Yes, the printed versions are better (not great mind you, just better).
True,... color newspaper printing is limited BUT as you mention yourself,
the web versions are, "REALLY bad!", so bad in fact, that the newspaper
versions ARE better!

It seems they screwed up the web version images with high compression
jpegs. High compression jpegs are often times detrimental to anaglyphs,
especially in the detailed part of the image. That's why I often will
post anaglyph images as gifs. Even with their limited color palette,
they often tend to work better. Not always mind you, depends on how
many colors the original scene has.

>I can't quite tell how they did it, maybe it was a Qdos lens.

They do look like Qdos but I don't they are. Looks to me like twin zoom
SLR's or maybe even paired zoom digital cameras with no attention to
proper focal lengths or stereobases. Most of the images are very
cardboardddy, even those viewed further than arms length.

As I've mentioned, the images (in the newspaper) are passable. There are
varying degrees of success. Some are pretty good, all things considered.
I've seen worse.

Gabriel



 

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