3D movie

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(idea) by Jet-Poop (4.5 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Wed Jun 14 2000 at 6:55:22

A 3D movie is a film that provides the illusion of a three-dimensional image on a two-dimensional screen. When you go to see a 3D movie, you are usually given a pair of cardboard glasses--one eye of the glasses is tinted red, and the other is tinted green or blue. When you watch the movie, it'll look blurry and badly-colored if you don't wear the glasses, but when you put the glasses on, the colors clear up, and it looks like everything on screen is coming right at you.

Here's how it works: Our eyes are separated by a distance of about 2.5 inches, which allows us to see objects from two slightly different points of view and allows our brains to accurately judge distances as far away as 25 feet. To make a traditional 3D movie, you need two cameras whose lenses are spaced 2.5 inches apart, like our eyes. When you develop the film, the film on the left should be colored blue-green, and the film on the right should be colored red. When the images are superimposed, they'll look blurry, but when you put on 3D glasses, the colored filters in the glasses will decode the picture so your left eye sees only what the left camera lens saw and the right eye sees only the right. Your brain combines the images to see true depth and make it seem real.

Unfortunately, no one has made a decent 3D movie since the 1950s.

(idea) by bitter_engineer (6.5 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Jun 14 2000 at 7:37:38

C'mon, Jet-Poop, get with the program. These days, there are 3D movies, but they aren't done with green and red filters any more.

What you get is a pair of glasses with two pieces of clear polarized plastic, one oriented horizontal, the other vertical. On the screen, there is projected an image polarized horizontally, and one polarized vertically. The polarization in the glasses allows your eyes to see each one separately.

This is how the 3-D movies at many Theme Parks are shown today, as well as IMAX 3-D. Typically, none of these are oscar winners, but I would have liked to see the IMAX 3-D 'under the ocean' film anyway.

(idea) by Dhericean (2.3 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Mon Jul 17 2000 at 12:00:39

Although the polaroid lenses in modern 3D glasses are set with their planes of polarisation at 90 degrees they are normally both set diagonally i.e.

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This means that even if the glasses are put on the wrong way round the polarisations remain the same. Otherwise the left eye gets the right eye's image and vice versa which can lead to nausea etc. This is necessary as the cheap 3D glasses are normally just flat and the arms bend round (rather than being hinged) with no clear indication of which side is the front.

Of course there is still a problem if they are put on upside down but the nose slot should prevent this from happening.

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Captain EO	The Creature from the Black Lagoon	Polarization	1950s
Honey, I shrunk the audience	depth perception	3-D	IMAX
House of Wax	I can't see it	It's Tough to Be a Bug	Strabismus
Polaroid	glasses	cardboard	Hard Candy
Coptic Church	Edwin Land	Images	B movie
3D	are	nausea

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