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April 2003 Meeting

Our April 2003 meeting was held at:

7 PM on Tuesday the 29th of April 2003
eCentral TAFE
140 Royal St
East Perth

Eric Pickstone from Continuum Resources presented a history of stereoscopics, current 3D stereo technologies and some of the techniques required to create computer generated images in stereo.

We watched some practical demonstrations of stereo viewing including the 15 min documentary "Giants Exist" produced in stereo 3D for the Whaleworld Museum in Albany. We watched some of the work with red-cyan glasses and other pieces with the more expensive Crystal Eyes LCD shuttered glasses.

Eric's colleague Chris demonstrated some of the techniques Continuum and their team used to create "Giants Exist". He gave some very useful advice on large scale productions in 3D Studio Max.

Here are some links Eric found useful in preparing his talk:

Carnegie Mellon 3D Stereoscopic Video Display Systems Laboratory
The Encyclopedia of Virtual Environments
Vision3d.com's stereo page
Del Phillip's History of Sereoscopy page
3D Aircraft Anaglyphs web page

After the talk, Eric sent me an email about painters from hundreds of years ago using 3D techniques. Here's an excerpt:

"I wish I had known about this site. This movie/book was featured last Sunday on the ABC, essentially it shows how the old masters used 3D and photoshop style techniques hundreds of years ago; absolutely fascinating. I alluded to the technique briefly in my talk but I had no idea of how sophisticated these 16th and 17th century guys were nor had I realized how extensive was their use of advanced visualisation technology."

Afterwards we adjourned to Basil Leaves for some tasty Thai food and stimulating conversation.

Credits

Many thanks to Eric, Chris and Connie at Continuum Resources for hosting the meeting. Thanks to the Department of Computing at Curtin University of Technology for hosting our web site. Thanks also to Andrew Squelch and eCentral/IVEC for providing a regular venue for our meetings and helping us prepare. Our gratitude also goes to our speakers and the people behind the scenes who help to organise the meetings.