Experimenting in anticipation of the upcoming ChromaDepth 3D I resurrected and old animation I did with Ed Lynch's head. If you have a set of the glasses, probably the best way to see the maximum 3D effect is to right-click and download this file and play it full-screen in a QT player. Without the glasses, it probably isn't worth downloading.

ChromaDepth Experiment movie 16Mb

Is the psychedelic stuff done in A:M too?

No, I added the background, done in Wondertouch, to get blue and green separation. I also upped the saturation of the face to make a larger red gradient between the face and the cloud. I used the original renders and added everything in the final Vegas composite, mostly to play with the ChromaDepth effect.


original clip

Bruce,
Very cool.
I have the glasses and the depth created is excellent.

We had considered using this in a crash as well as an industrial animation, but haven't investigated the ramifications of doing so.

David

Thanks David, I'm really still experimenting. It seems to be best the more you stay with purer RGB colors. Mixed colors that the eye sees as yellow, orange, or violet, the glasses try and separate into it's component RGB colors rather than layer them into their proper "spectral" depth position. Physics wins I guess. ChromaDepth is fun to play with. Note: This wasn't done with the new V14 set-up, I just reused old TGAs. Maybe Hash has the right colors for the yellow, orange, and violet positions.

One thing I notice is that there seems to be no "wrong" way to look thru the glasses like there is with red-blue glasses.

The depth is never inverted no matter how you turn the glasses around.

They have two versions of the glasses, the standard that gives the greatest depth separation and HD that gives a little less separation but eliminates a lot of the ghosting artifacts. The HD glasses really only have the special lens on the left eye and the right eye has clear plastic so you really just have a little less of the trick. If you have an extra pair, just cut out the right lens and you have a pair of HD glasses.