3D Imaging – towardsWisdom

3D Images from Ragnarok

July 9, 2009 mentallymental Comments 0 Comment

Since making a 3D image requires 2 images – one for left and one for the right eye – which are slightly from a different angle, I thought why not try making some from a game in which we can rotate the screen? And voila! it works as expected.

Ragnarok is a fantasy MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) having its own big world which is persistent. I used to play it a lot 2-3 years ago. I’ve played it a lot on the Indian server (inRO) which is no more now and also on a private server called qRO which is also down now. Recently I found a very good new private server DreamRO and thats where I am wandering now taking screenshots.

Till now I’ve made about 30 good 3D images from it and yet travelled just about 5% of the Ragnarok world.

Take a look at them (Slideshow). You should press F11 to switch your browser to full-screen mode to accomodate the photo on the screen.
While watching each photo, swap your glasses on and off to see the difference.

3D Vision with Anaglyph glasses

July 5, 2009 mentallymental Comments 0 Comment

I’ve finally got Red/Cyan anaglyph glasses and am able to see 3d movies, photos in 3D. Even play some games in 3D. 3D as in where you really see the depth or images pop out of the screen. Anaglyph images are basically superimposition of the images which the left eye and the right eye would see of the subject into one image. The red and cyan filters then separate the two images automatically giving our brain the impression that we are seeing the read 3D object.

The image above is an anaglyph 3D image for red-cyan glasses. There can be red-blue, red-green glasses also but red-cyan is always preferred because the colours in the original photo are preserved well enough in this format.

You can make these glasses at home using gelatin paper. Get red and blue gelatin papers. Cut out a frame from cardboard and put in 4-5 layers of gelatin paper in place of the eyes. I had made them and they worked somewhat well but not so good becoz u dont get the exact shade of cyan and red and plus the gelatin papers makes a fuss getting crumpled up.

You can order them from 3dindia.com aka hitesh.cybertec.co.in Thats where I got mine from and they are good.

Here are more 3D images I’ve made from the Final Fantasy VII movie till now.