01 June 2007
Discover the World of 3D Photography!
Enter the world of 3D, the world, where photos aren't flat, but spatial. Where persons and things on your snaps are so real, so you can almost touch them. Thanks to the new small java application you may not only watch 3D photos, you can even create them, if you want to of course ;)
Paul Coulton over at the Forum Nokia Blogs, posted an interesting article about his small Java application that can be used to creating 3D photos, yeah, 3D photos and even better, immediately upload it and share it with others.
It is a pretty interesting idea, but very simple basically, using the mentioned application you are prompted to take 2 photos and after taking application will combines the 2 photos into one 3D photo, and as I already said, if you like it, you can upload it to the appropriate website very simply by selecting Upload from Options. I've just test it on my lovely Nokia N95 and it works just fine but it has lot of problem with free RAM but it’s the common issue with N95.
What is the 3D photo?
Humans over time have evolved with many capabilities which offer an advantage over non-humans (at least for now) opposable thumbs for gripping stuff, big brains for figuring out stuff, and Binocular vision for seeing two points of view at the same time.
This allows us to perceive depth (i.e. see things in three dimensions). The ability to tell if a tree branch is 3 feet or 3 inches away is pretty important, as is being able to tell if that lion is 30 yards or 30 feet away. Both our eyes are on the front of our faces and each see a slightly different view of the same thing. Close one eye, then close the other, you'll notice there's a slightly different view of the same thing. Our brains put these together so get a 3-D image of our surroundings.
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Anaglyphs, the type of 3-D photos we're going to make, do the same thing by tricking our eyes into doing the same thing they normally do, just with a flat picture. The anaglyph is a single image (usually black and white) that has red/blue "outlines" on it which, when viewed with 3-D glasses, appears to jump out at you. The image gets processed so each eye sees a slightly different view and our brain combines them to give the effect of depth perception.
That’s it, try it and post some cool 3d photo at our forum,
gallery section ;)
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