Nostalgia

[Lin Evans]

How quickly time passes:

Five years ago I posted this sample in a thread on a photography site - it was a relatively unknown technique then and it was well received - here is the original text and the link: NOTE: Turn sound down a bit - the background music is too loud!!

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A number of ways have been devised to present images in a three dimensional mode. Some, especially in animation use layers to hold objects which may be moved in front of or behind other objects. Also dynamic changes in size of objects as they approach or depart from the observers perspective can simulate 3D. Of course having two objects with slightly different capture positions may be viewed "cross-eyed" and the human brain interprets this as it would had the object been viewed real time with our overlapping fields of view. Then there is anaglyphic photography where red and cyan glasses are needed to see the effect.

Finally there is oob (out of bounds) processing which introduces perspective distortion, shadows, image size and position relative to a "frame" which would normally encompass the image. Having portions of an image inside with other parts outside make a realistic if somewhat imaginary three dimensional effect.

The image below is an "oob" construct representative of this technique. My original was quite amenable to this technique. Images which have a subject coming toward or going away from the observer at an angle, and especially those with an appendage (arm, leg, head, etc.) ahead, reaching, etc., are especially amenable.

For those interested in seeing more of these as well as 3D animations, here's a link to a 19 meg Windows zipped executable file where I have several more oob images depcting motion into and out of frames as well as motion animation using techniques mentioned above. The executable has been thoroughly tested and certified free of any harmful threats (worms, virus, spyware, trojans, etc.).

http://www.lin-evans.org/pte/3d.zip

Lin

[Ken Cox]

Lin

no problem running on win 7 system

the Indian chief's ankle looks like mine when i broke it - badly twisted out of shape )

ken