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Real 3D W1: Fun!

2009-11-04T09:42:00.000-08:00

I've been having fun with the Real 3D-W1 after getting Parallels working again under Snow Leopard, running StereoPhoto Maker ("SPM") under XP to read and process the .mpo files.I'm slowly working on my own pairing pipeline, with keystoning for proper toe-in instead of horizontal offsetting... might be possible with SPM but I've just started to explore its features.The big questions now are:1) How

Fujifilm FinePix "REAL 3D W1" is For Real

2009-09-11T17:31:00.000-07:00

→ Prototype Production model It looks like the Fujifilm 3D camera is arriving at Japanese vendors (!!!) and has evolved nicely from the boxy prototype shown a year ago.The manual shows interesting features for adjusting parallax and for taking non-stereo twin-lens shots.

Why I Trust Numbers, Not My Eyes

2009-06-25T11:57:00.001-07:00

Confirmed-- spiral "blue" and "green" are both (254, 151, 255). Wow.

Looking In, Looking Out:No OCO, but Kepler Made It

2009-03-08T20:11:00.000-07:00

As investigators search for the cause of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory's launch "mishap", the successful launch of the Kepler spacecraft provided some relief for those of us giddy about humanity's ever-expanding observation of the big picture "here" and our hopes for what we may find "out there."

Imaging an Image in the Mind

2008-12-11T15:33:00.000-08:00

Via Slashdot and BoingBoing, researchers in Osaka, Japan claim a method of detecting images directly from a person's mind, published today in the the journal Neuron.: Perceptual experience consists of an enormous number of possible states. Previous fMRI studies have predicted a perceptual state by classifying brain activity into prespecified categories. Constraint-free visual image

Variations on a Theme

2008-10-27T15:10:00.000-07:00

My favorite Andre the Giant variation is still the "Andy van Dam has a posse" design that made it onto Onyxes at SIGGRAPH '94-- wish I'd taken pictures. It's been thrilling to watch Shepard Fairey's "Hope" poster become the iconic print image of this campaign, with "Hope" variations/sendups/ripoffs/etc. flowing from artists everywhere since it popped in January. The sweet story came full

FinePix Real 3D System?!

2008-09-22T08:47:00.000-07:00

No product yet, but Fujifilm has announced development of the FinePix Real 3D System, to include the new "Fujifilm Super CCD EXR" sensor, " not related to OpenEXR, but we can dream... PHOTOKINA 2008, COLOGNE, GERMANY, September 23, 2008 FUJIFILM Corporation today announces a radical departure from current imaging systems with the development of a completely new, real image system (3D digital

35mm Lens Adapters for HD

2008-08-18T18:12:00.000-07:00

Just heard about a fascinating type of lens adapter for shooting through 35mm prime/zoom lenses on HD cameras-- project the image through the 35mm lens onto (moving!) ground glass, then shoot the resulting image with the HD camera through its optics dialed to macro. It's an "analog hole" approach that BW says works great. Manufacturers: Letus Redrock Micro Cinevate Brevis MP.1

Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic: Turning Tricks Into Research

2008-08-05T23:06:00.000-07:00

Amazing study in Nature Reviews Neuroscience on mechanisms of "magic"-- ways that our perceptions fail and allow us to believe in types of conjuring effects: Appearance Vanish Transposition Restoration Penetration Transformation Extraordinary feats Telekinesis Extrasensory perception

Phoenix Has Landed

2008-05-25T21:47:00.001-07:00

I love it when a plan comes together...:)

JAIMIE WARREN

2008-03-15T12:39:00.000-07:00

Stumbled onto Jaimie Warren photography and... digging it.

2008-02-21T14:29:00.000-08:00

I'm sick of the disposability of things. There's the waste problem, the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses problem, and the fact that stuff is going to break down. Why must every previous device be made obsolete with every new development? Why can't we value machines over lifetimes-- multiple generations-- as opposed to a few years or until the next one comes out? I want to see a "chassis" approach

2008-02-05T12:58:00.001-08:00

Jim Woodring invented the Looty to look into his own eyes. Nachimir threw together an Instructable on it-- must try this out ASAP...

2007-12-22T02:23:00.000-08:00

Seb Przd is blowing my mind! He's doing a lot with panoramas, HDR, and reprojection-- lovely collections.

2007-12-19T10:51:00.000-08:00

The blue LED's are invading my life. I hate them. It would be difficult to replace blue LED's with "regular" (read: red, green, yellow, or white) ones-- for surface-mount LED's and RGB ones, I'd more likely damage the circuit board... though outright removing one would be almost as good as replacing one, with the added spiteful element of having gouged its eye out for irritating mine... Blue

2007-12-09T11:26:00.000-08:00

"The Military Industrial Light and Magic Complex: Avoiding Ender’s Folly"?

2007-12-05T11:17:00.000-08:00

Just heard about this "little planets" method for inverting panoramas into a stereographic projection, which is not what I'd expect it to be called. Of course there's a stereographic projection Flickr group-- very cool to browse. Seems like all you need to do is: Shoot and stitch a complete spherical panorama to get an image with an aspect ratio of 2, Rotate the image 180 degrees, Stretch the

2007-11-30T11:26:00.000-08:00

Homemade cheapo bellows for tilt-shift photography (sort of).

2007-11-02T12:19:00.000-07:00

old American Cinematographer article on Stanley Kubrick's use of a special 50mm f/0.7 lens used on Barry Lyndon.

2007-11-02T10:37:00.001-07:00

Blueprint paper photography?! Turns out blueprint paper develops with a little ammonia...

2007-08-15T14:59:00.000-07:00

Found a good page at Cornell on the ISO 12233 Test Chart, along with links to two companies-- Sine Patterns and Precision Optical Instruments-- who sell test patterns in different sizes and formats.

2007-06-08T17:37:00.000-07:00

Thinking of places to stop on my trip re: art, architectural, and photographic history. Louis Daguerre was French... where was that window where he took that picture? No, it was Joseph-Nicephore Niepce, out his studio window. The Wikipedia Photography Timeline is pretty cool.

2007-06-08T13:34:00.000-07:00

Google Street View has nice display and interaction of registered panoramic images. They were taken by Immersive Media and by Google using their own custom camera rig. You can tell which by figuring out the camera heght-- the van's pov is much higher. Interesting Boing Boing coverage covers a few issues, but the big qustion for everybody is:Is this creepy or not, and why?

2007-02-12T23:23:00.000-08:00

>>> PanoramaScanCam (?!)-- Mac A. Cody is working on converting a Umax flatbed scanner to a panoramic camera. When I read the proposal and saw the first sketches a few weeks ago, I thought he would never get there-- there's a lot of work involved-- but here it is! He achieved first light, and the image looks promising. I am most impressed by his (re/ab)use of a toilet tank hose

2007-01-23T12:13:00.000-08:00

Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904), Photographer of Fluids exhibit (2004/2005) at Musée d'Orsay.

2007-01-08T14:32:00.000-08:00

Scientists at the U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory have developed a silver-based, mesh-like material with a negative index of refraction: Metamaterials, also known as left-handed materials, are exotic, artificially created materials that provide optical properties not found in natural materials. Natural materials refract light, or electromagnetic radiation, to the right of the incident beam at different

2006-12-23T23:47:00.000-08:00

Michael Bach's blog of Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena has quite a few:

2006-12-08T10:50:00.000-08:00

Lots of interesting EOS lenses at Zenit Cameras, as well as adapters for Pentax M42 lenses so they can be used on EOS mounts. The Peleng 8mm fisheye (left) is neat, and Marco Pauck has a great page about it. btw I went to Zenit after reading this post on Boing Boing about a Leica camera rifle.

2006-08-21T09:27:00.000-07:00

GPS for a Nikon D200; not sure why the custom cable was necessary. No, it's not possible with a Canon since they aren't GPS-aware...:(. Very cool for photogeocacheing-- shots can be folded into Microsoft's "WWMX" (Wold-Wide Mexia eXchange)-- neat...

2006-06-13T18:52:00.000-07:00

Really Right Stuff camera mounts, brackets, bars, etc.

2006-05-22T10:51:00.000-07:00

J.G. Saltzman Inc. parts at GLENNVIEW (images rehosted on Flickr):

2006-05-19T14:26:00.000-07:00

Stereo viewers for side-by-side pairs at deeper-than-a-card distances: Wheatstone Mini >< Pokescope

2006-05-19T12:31:00.000-07:00

High end 35mm format digital motion picture cameras: Panavision "Genesis" Dalsa "Origin" Arri "Arriflex D-20" And soon....:o Red "One"

2006-02-18T20:42:00.000-08:00

Marshall, Mike, ???, and Regan, 4th Annual VES Award Winners (PDF) 4th Anuual Visual Effects Society Awards coverage (pdf's):

2006-02-14T01:30:00.000-08:00

Frédéric Eyl and Gunnar Green: Aperture project , emphasis on "project" since it hasn't been built. This reminds me of Daniel Rozin's "Wodden Mirror"

2006-02-13T12:45:00.000-08:00

HK Hendrick: Reconstructing the Saltzman 8x10 Enlarger ... and it's in San Francisco?! Update: I exchanged some email with H.K., and unfortunately he moved to Arizona and sold the enlarger a few years ago...:(

2006-02-13T12:23:00.000-08:00

Bob Atkins: Using Manual Focus Lenses on Canon EOS Bodies

2006-02-13T11:57:00.000-08:00

From Photonotes.org: Using manual lenses and telescopes with EOS cameras.

2006-02-13T11:53:00.000-08:00

"Chandlor 95mm f/2 for EOS mount" (read: magnifying glass, cardboard, tape)

2006-01-05T13:11:00.000-08:00

RED digital cinema: 4K, 24.5mm x 13.5mm "Mysterium" (ha!) CMOS sensor at 4520 x 2540 pixels, 1 to 60 fps, 60 fps possible at full res, RAW 4:4:4 through dual fiber, PL lens mount. They mention a "RED" codec and multiple resolutions and recording options.The only other stuff I found online was in an AfterEffects forum. Update: Sounds like a real camera, and they're still calling the sensor "

2006-01-03T16:02:00.000-08:00

Wired: Will Digital Cinema Can Pirates?

2005-12-25T17:40:00.000-08:00

A Look at Chicken Little in 3D

2005-12-25T17:39:00.000-08:00

Lego medium format pinhole camera

2005-03-18T15:57:00.000-08:00

Christie CP2000 Digital Cinema Projector (38-DCP301-02)

2005-03-18T15:55:00.000-08:00

From a DCinemaToday Article Jan 17, 2005: In-Three’s Dimensionalization® process provides film makers, studios, and exhibitors with a new solution to 3D movie making and presentation. In-Three’s Dimensionalization® process is completely accomplished in post-production and, as a result, filmmakers now have a powerful new tool at their disposal and no longer have to concern themselves with the

2005-02-03T11:39:00.000-08:00

iPod stereoscope... why?

2005-01-26T22:26:00.000-08:00

is that a camera or...

2004-09-29T18:37:00.000-07:00

CanestaVision Electronic Perception Development Kit (EP DevKit) includes a single-chip 3-D camera with included light source.

2004-09-29T15:42:00.000-07:00

Panoguide list of panorama stitching tools (some old).

2004-08-26T16:10:00.000-07:00

Peace River Studios "PixOrb" motorized panorama head

2004-08-16T14:15:00.000-07:00

Cycling '74 MAX/MSP Jitter looks like a great way to make a spinning screen...

2004-08-03T13:33:00.000-07:00

Casio: transparent ceramic lens

2004-07-07T11:26:00.000-07:00

Illuminate Labs Turtle renderer

2004-06-30T10:39:00.000-07:00

i2i: 3D Visual Communication uses a stereo webcam to produce gaze corrected images of the viewers.

2004-06-29T16:35:00.000-07:00

The Sharp Actius RD3D is the world's first autostereo 3D notebook.

2004-03-03T14:31:00.000-08:00

Philips Electronics: "FluidFocus" lens

2004-02-20T01:13:00.000-08:00

Stereo cameras by format

2004-01-25T15:21:00.000-08:00

Panorama of Opportunity landing site

2004-01-25T14:56:00.000-08:00

Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home Spirit raw image index Opportunity raw image index Maestro Headquarters

2004-01-04T02:34:00.000-08:00

Spirit MER has landed successfully and IS RETURNING IMAGE DATA FROM MARS!!!!!!!!

2003-11-15T12:06:00.000-08:00

NI Compact Vision System

2003-09-12T11:21:00.000-07:00

PT Assembler from Tawbaware

2003-08-25T09:01:00.000-07:00

Washington Post article: Scientists Gain Insight From Man's Vision By Rob Stein: "[Michael] May, who had been blinded by a chemical explosion at age 3, [underwent] an experimental procedure...in the hopes of restoring his vision... May's unique experience is providing profound and unprecedented insights into how vision works, the flexibility of the human brain and how people learn to

2003-08-20T01:30:00.000-07:00

Cam2Com remote control software works for Olympus cameras.

2003-08-19T13:19:00.000-07:00

Reconstruction from a Single Meydenbauer Image

2003-08-11T21:43:00.000-07:00

Audiopad

2003-08-10T11:58:00.000-07:00

Sony camera line at Aegis Electronic Group

2003-08-06T22:43:00.000-07:00

Image Corner Detection Survey

2003-07-26T13:52:00.000-07:00

2003-07-24T09:20:00.000-07:00

Savannah filelist for OpenEXR.

2003-07-24T02:38:00.000-07:00

Stanford Multi-Camera Array

2003-06-29T13:49:00.001-07:00

Leica Modul-R (Imaging Resource)[gulp]

2003-06-25T23:50:00.000-07:00

Free: SplutterFish OpenEXR plug-in for 3ds max and Autodesk VIZ

2003-06-11T09:43:00.000-07:00

Pt. Grey Scorpion camera with 2/3" CMOS sensor @1280x960 8bit, 30fps max @ full resolution.

2003-05-23T12:49:00.000-07:00

matlab camera calibration tool with source

2003-05-14T19:41:00.000-07:00

Seeing Machines (not online anymore?)

2003-05-14T00:57:00.000-07:00

INO 3D Camera

2003-05-10T14:43:00.000-07:00

Meazura mobile data acquisition PalmOS machine

2003-05-09T21:24:00.000-07:00

Oxford Metrics Group

2003-04-05T15:43:00.000-08:00

3dquarium custom stereo mount

2003-04-04T19:06:00.000-08:00

Pentax stereo adapter and more stuff at Mike Kersenbrock's Stereo "Photo-3D" Photography page

2003-04-02T04:22:00.000-08:00

DT006 AVR Development Board for newbies

2003-03-30T13:29:00.000-08:00

CDM-Optics "Wavefront Coded™ Image" hyper DOF imaging

2003-03-27T02:40:00.000-08:00

Al Jacobs' UNIVERSAL BATTERY PACKS page-- great how-to for building a big external battery pack. There's also the DigiPower DPS-9000 [review], probably easier to use out of the box.

2003-03-23T15:01:00.000-08:00

Ray3D himself sporting the helmetcam

2003-03-22T16:09:00.000-08:00

2003-03-21T23:02:00.000-08:00

Stanford computer graphics courses; it used to have some nice graphics notes

2003-03-21T22:20:00.000-08:00

Stan Wagon

2003-03-21T19:44:00.000-08:00

Hayden Planetarium Digital Universe & Partiview Software

2003-03-21T13:09:00.000-08:00

Gene Cash's "Digital Camera EXIF Library" page

2003-03-20T15:10:00.000-08:00

Kate Devlin's paper and links about tone reproduction

2003-03-20T03:35:00.000-08:00

Manfrotto #302 panormaic camera mount

2003-03-20T03:15:00.000-08:00

Loreo 3D Lens in a Cap

2003-03-19T20:04:00.000-08:00

[knock knock]... who's there?... Helio-Courier...

2003-03-19T19:47:00.000-08:00

oh crap...

2003-03-19T15:34:00.000-08:00

Could Pine Tree Computing's Camera Controller software be used for high res stereo sync capture? Seems like it's just important to have an Olympus V3.0 SDK camera.

2003-03-19T14:03:00.001-08:00

Wide Angle Perspective notes by Helmut Dersch, author of the ever popular Panorama Tools [mirror-- orig. site here is closed temporarily].

2003-03-19T13:52:00.000-08:00

Greg Downing's Panoramic Image Modeling and Reinhard HDR Tonemapping Plugin for HDR Shop. I especially liked the recipe for making an HDR panorama.

2003-03-13T13:26:00.000-08:00

2003-03-13T00:11:00.000-08:00

i like this phone