Communication Technology?

Project Photographs

I organised the photographs i’ve taken during this project into their own set on flickr so its easy to see the collection together at once.

Click on any of the picture or the titles to see their gallery

Anaglyphs

Redscale

Tilt and shift 

Papervision 3D & Anaglyphs

http://www.papervision3d.org/

http://blog.papervision3d.org/

In my research I’ve heard of a freeware program called Papervision a couple of times. Barcinski Jeanjean, whose interactive 3D porfolio I mentioned earlier, employed it in the making of their website. From what I can gather the program allows you to render object in 3D which you can move around with movements of your mouse. The combination of Anaglyphs and interactivity is something that really interests me, the use of interactivity makes the 3D experience so much more immersive for the viewer. From my point of view the main advantage to be gained by making something in 3D is to make the piece more immersive and to grip the audience attention and offer them something that they wouldnt experience looking at the same thing in 2D.

An example of Papervision and Anaglyphs combined, click on the link or the picture to see the example.

http://lab.benstucki.net/archives/AnaglyphTest/anaglyphtest.swf

Holography

from wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hologramm.JPG

“A hologram is a picture that changes when looked at from different angles. Holography (from the Greek, ὅλος-hólos whole + γραφή-grafē writing, drawing) is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed so that it appears as if the object is in the same position relative to the recording medium as it was when recorded. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes in exactly the same way as if the object was still present, thus making the recorded image (hologram) appear three dimensional.

The technique of holography can also be used to optically store, retrieve, and process information. While holography is commonly used to display static 3-D pictures, it is not yet possible to generate arbitrary scenes by a holographic volumetric display.”

Swell 3D

http://www.swell3d.com/

Swell 3D is a great website which hosts a collection of information on Anaglyph technology, experiments and real life examples.

Anaglyphs in 3D comics

Here ive found another example of anaglyphs in practice, a DC comic about superman created in anaglyphs, cover to cover.

More applications for Anaglyphs

3D skateboard design

Heres an example of a Anaglyph 3D design on a skateboard

Kokoromi

Kokoromi is an experimental game collective formed by a rare union of Montreal gamemakers and curators to promote games as an art form and expressive medium worldwide.  Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Kokoromi produces events, develops games, and hosts a blog at www.kokoromi.org.

“GAMMA 3D FEATURED GAMES ANNOUNCED! On August 15th, 2008, Montreal’s Kokoromi collective challenged independent game makers to use red-blue stereoscopy to create innovative, experimental new games. On November 1st, Kokoromi picked six games to showcase at this year’s GAMMA event.”

Its encouraging to see anaglyph technology being being used wildly in so many different mediums, from photographs, animations, websites, art installations and games. When I started this project I planned to investigate pieces of technology and photography techniques that appeal to me, are appropriate to my practice, I can see myself researching further and using in the future. I wasn’t sure what direction my project would take but I have arrived at something very interesting and versatile in anaglyph technology.