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After Effects Anaglyphic 3D Video, originally uploaded by bobtiki.

First test of using two Flip Video Ultra cameras to record stereo (3D) video. The cameras were gaffer-taped to a hard metal ruler with the lenses separated by three inches — more than a realistic intra-ocular distance, but I thought it might work out well to exaggerate the effects of the 3D separation. The videos were then synced and combined in After Effects (above) by assigning the left camera to the red channel of the image, and the right camera to the green and blue channels (creating a cyan look).

This is meant to be viewed with old-style red/cyan 3D glasses (red on the left eye). If you don’t have a pair laying about, you can get a free pair by mail from Rainbow Symphony.

The cameras were not aligned exactly, but seemed to give pretty decent result nonetheless. The only major issue is the Flip cams really tend to smear when panning, so it probably works best if you go really slow. Also, optimizing alignment and intra-ocular spacing will need some work. Still, looks promising for cheap 3D video.

Next up, color anaglyphs.

I was going to post a video of it here, but no matter what web-suitable format I tried (and I even tried AVI and WMV9), they all compressed the color in such a way that the red-green separation was damaged, and the 3D no longer looked very good. Surprisingly, in the case of H.264, it smeared the colors together into a double image, no mater how high a data rate I allowed it. I’m now wondering with the way these codecs reduce the color information, if perhaps a color anaglyph will actually fare better than an old-school black-n-white one.

I will test that soon, but in the meantime, the morbidly curious can download a 243 MB Apple Pixlet version here, that’s as small as I could get it.

Figlio from Mark Boszko on Vimeo.

Because it just wouldn’t be a home page without some cat video.

I really miss Antipixel. It hasn’t been updated for over a year, but I still go back every couple of months, hoping that it will be updated.

I was worried that something untoward had happened, but Jeremy is suddenly updating his flickr stream again, so I guess he’s doing all right. Hope springs eternal!

I found these great tins that perfectly fit the Moo MiniCards— you can stack 20 of ‘em in there. However, I also found that you have to order a whole batch of ‘em, and not just one or two.

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Taking a drawing class through PixelCorps this summer, with instructor Ian McCaig. First assignment was a self-portrait, and this is my 2nd try at it, with Ian’s suggestions to take a photo, turn it upside down, and draw from that. I was surprised at how it turned out.

Inspired by Brent Simmons’ Twitter post, with apologies to James Duncan Davidson, who snapped the pic.

My first drawing created on a Cintiq, based on an image found on CuteOverload.