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     Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Reprint of www.colorcode3d.com newsletter: Dear reader, Welcome to the first edition of eNews from ColorCode 3-D. It is with great pleasure that we have recorded the large interest in getting news about ColorCode 3-D based on the fact that several hundred individuals and companies has signed up for our eNews service within the last couple of month. We want to thank you for signing up for our eNews, and are looking forward to supply you with interesting news in the future. Christmas Card: We have attached a specially designed Christmas card to you from ColorCode 3-D. The card (image) can of cause be viewed both in 2-D, without a viewer, and in 3-D Stereo with a ColorCodeViewer. WebShop News: WebShop URL. If you have bookmarked our WebShop please check the URL. We changed the URL around the start of June, but there were automatic redirect from the old URL. The redirect in now cancelled after being active for half a year. You can either go to the WebShop from our homepage or you can go directly to the WebShop by using this URL: www.colorcode3d.dk New DVD’s in the WebShop. During the next year we will introduce a series of new DVD’s in the WebShop. Among those you will find releases of IMAX films on DVD e.g. a new version of “3D Mania” as a triple-set containing a 2-D, a ColorCode 3-D and a Shutter Glass version (just like the Haunted Castle DVD) followed by “Alien Adventure”. We also expect to get other non-IMAX titles as well. You will be informed about future titles and release dates in the eNews. 2-D to 3-D Conversion. We are looking for a replacement of the popular 3Dplus DVD software for real-time 2-D to 3-D conversion of DVD’s. Unfortunately the company, which produced our OEM version, has closed because of economical problems during the last year. ColorCode 3-D encoding service. We are working on a new concept where you will be able to get your own stereo pairs ColorCode 3-D encoded via an e-mail service and make the payment in the WebShop. You will receive more information in the next edition of eNews. ColorCode 3-D Center News: Patent. We are very proud to inform you that the first ColorCode 3-D patent has now been issued in Australia. You have probably noticed that the ColorCode 3-D technology has been patent pending for some time. The patent process takes a very long time, but now the patents are starting to flow. The next will be issued in USA. >From time to time we have got questions about which parts of the ColorCode 3-D technology it actually covered by the patent pending / patent. It is an easy question to answer: All of it, meaning both the encoding technology and the special designed filters used in the ColorCodeViewers. New blue filter for the ColorCodeViewer. The new blue filter has a higher light transmission and a better contrast than the present. This new filter has already been successfully tested in Japan in connection with a special release of the IMAX film “SOS Planet” in ColorCode 3-D. We expect the new blue filter to be implemented in our standard ColorCodeViewer in the start of 2004. New ColorCode 3-D encoding. In connection with the encoding of “SOS Planet” we also introduced a new version of our ColorCode 3-D encoding technology called PowerAnaglyph C9 encoding. The new encoding introduces improved colour rendering, less chromatic ghosting, better contrast control and last but absolutely not least an improvement of that part of the image, which are seen through the blue filter. This part of the image is now optimised for the new blue filter, mentioned above, resulting in a brighter and much more crisp 3-D Stereo image with a better 3-D effect than ever. All images and movies on our homepage are encoded with the new ColorCode 3-D / PowerAnaglyph C9. Video capturing and processing. We have now got a complete set-up for capturing and processing Digital Betacam video and uncompressed QuickTime movies. This enable us to process both ColorCode 3-D and Interlaced Shutter Glass versions of videos and films from the raw digital material to the final result including MPEG2 and MPEG4. Real-time rendering. We will introduce a series of new hardware accelerated real-time render tools with integrated ColorCode 3-D encoding after New Year. You will receive more information in the next edition of eNews. PS: We have attached the eNews as a PDF-file if you want to file it. You will receive the next edition of eNews just after New Year. We at ColorCode 3-D ApS wish you a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year | ||
| Vladimir Simchenko Rating: N/A |
If you have ColorCode 3-D glasses welcome to new section of my stereo gallery: http://www.really.overtop.ru/gallery/gallery_ColorCode3D.html Review of ColorCode 3-D technology: http://www.really.ru/review/colorcode3d.html (Impressions, recommendation, advantage of ColorCode3D technology compare to red-blue/green anaglyph and disadvantage compare to page-flip stereo format) | ||
| David Sykes Rating: N/A |
Vladimir, the article headings are in English but the articles are in Russian. I do not think many people will understand (including me) :-) | ||
| BOPrey Rating: N/A |
Are there any place that explains what ColorCode3D is? How does it work? How different is it from analyth 3d? | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Using Adobe Photoshop to Create Blue/Orange Anaglyphic Stereo ImagesUsing Adobe Photoshop to Create Blue/Orange Anaglyphic Stereo Images These instructions are based on version 3 of Photoshop for Windows. The details will be different for other versions, and of course there are other ways to do this, but the priciple is the same: remove the blue component of the left image and replace it with the blue component of the right image. Start with a stereo pair of images of the same size and scale, preferably in 24 bit color. To minimize ghosting, avoid images with high contrast in the extreme foreground and background. The color depth of your diplay should be at least 15 bits. Open the left image in Photoshop. From the Mode menu choose RGB color. Open the Layers window (right click in window, click "Show Layers"). Click the Channels tab and drag the Blue thumbnail to the trashcan. Open the right image, repositioning it if needed to uncover part of the left image. Choose RGB Color from the Mode menu. Drage the Blue thumbnail from the Layers window and drop it on the left image. Close the right image without saving changes. The left image is now selected and in Multichannel mode. Choose RGB Color from the Mode menu. Choose Save As... from the file menu to save the altered left image with a new file name in a 24 bit color format. Click the Blue thumbnail from the Layers window to select the Blue channel. Click to the left of the RGB thumbnail in the Layers window to display all three channels. Click the reposition tool from the standard toolbar. Put on your SpaceSpex™ and drag the blue channel to align the right and left images. Use the zoom control if needed. Try to get the main subject of the image lined up properly, so that ghosting is minimized and confined to the background and extreme foreground. These images do not respond well to color reduction techniques. As you might expect, reducing them to 256 colors with any dither at all mixes the color channels enough to destroy the stereoscopic effect. Copyright 1996 3DTV Corporation Designed by Ringel Computer Consulting | ||
| John Billingham Rating: N/A |
Hey,"BO", Looks like "anonymous" beat me to it! Same deal, "Colorcode", "Space Spex"! While this method gives an imbalance in "brightness of image" between the eyes, it is the ONLY way to do anaglyphs with "TV" video. Best Wishes, John Billingham | ||
| BOPrey Rating: N/A |
So the viewing method is the same as anaglyphs (red/blue), except with different color filters, no? | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Yes it is Yellow/Blue anaglyphs but the filters of the glasses are orange/blue difficult to make your own because the colors have to be very precise. But gives better color results than red/cyan glasses or red/blue glasses particularly for flesh tones. | ||
| BOPrey Rating: N/A |
I see now. Thank you. | ||
| BOPrey Rating: N/A |
Anonymous, Is there a place in the US where I can order a few colorcode glasses to play with? | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
You can order Spacespex yellow/blue glasses from http://www.3dmagic.com/ at $2 USD each minimum order $150 USD in the U.S. But I'd suggest you get them from europe from www.colorcode3d.dk and buy a 4 or 8 pack no minimum charge. But wait until their new improved glasses in 2004 are available for their superior performance. The europe webshop is reliable I've bought from them before. | ||
| BOPrey Rating: N/A |
I just order from a company in England. A pack of 9 costs me 15lb including shiping to the US. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
until they release software for people to encode images/video at home themselves this will remain a proprietary expensive alternative. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Peter Wimmer's freeware Stereoscopic Player can convert just about any stereoscopic video to yellow/blue anaglyph on the fly. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Also Richard Scullion's Shareware 3DCombine can convert stills to yellow/blue anaglyph http://www.3dcombine.com | ||
| Puppet Kite Kid Rating: N/A |
And with VirtualDub freeware, too: http://www.puppetkites.net/virtualdub3d.htm I don't have the instructions on my web page, but here's all you have to do: Change the "Interlaced RGB" filter's grayscaled image in step #3 to "odd lines - check RGB2Y", then change the colors in "Interlaced RGB" filter in step #4 to "even lines clone: R & G" and "odd lines clone: B". In the last step #6, in the "Color Equalizer" filter, you can "amplify" the blue channel to match the glasses. I can even brighten it enough to make the ColorCode glasses that I have work. (the ones with a *dark* blue lens). Notice too that there are instructions for "Field Sequential" (also called "Interleaved" or "Interlaced") anaglyphs. You can make these into Y/B's also, and use them just like field sequential 3D for shutterglasses, but wear the ColorCode glasses instead of shutterglasses, of course. Modify the proper steps to make the field sequential Y/B format. Just about all the viewing techniques that apply to FS with shutterglasses also apply to this format for anaglyph glasses, with the exception that you don't have to worry about syncing the glasses, and it's impossible to reverse the fields :-) This can also be page-flipped on a computer with perfect results. You can play with the step #1 "hue/saturation" filter and do perfect color corrections too. If done properly, you won't be able to tell the difference between field sequential 3D for shutterglasses and field sequential anaglyphs for anaglyph glasses on most scenes. Try the progressive version (the first one) on your big plasma TV, but you'll have to play it uncompressed or with HuffyUV or MJPEG compression directly from a computer, unless you design a chip for a DVD player that will convert a field sequential anaglyph directly from a DVD. Let me know how it looks :-) You could also follow the "Shade-Corrected, Parallel Pairs For Anaglyph" instructions and feed them directly into a computer stereoscopic player and view them on-the-fly as "color" anaglyph (if the left image is left grayscale). Follow all the directions carefully. I have been using anaglyphs all most all the time these days, because I'm getting them to look as good as shutterglasses versions... but you have to work at it. Short clips are easier to do. You really need to convert longer movies scene by scene to get them perfect, so that can take a while to do :-) P. K. Kid 3D Adventures Of The Puppet Kite Kid: (All G-Rated) http://www.PuppetKites.net | ||
| BOPrey Rating: N/A |
Isn't colorcode3d patented? What happens to this free software then? | ||
| David Sykes Rating: N/A |
Yes, it is patented :- -------------------------------------------------- Department of Physics Technical University of Denmark Research Report, 1996 - 1999 ColorCode 3-D (1997 - ) Research area: Information technology and services Sørensen, Svend Erik Børre The project goal has been to establish a novel representation of stereograms, based on colorimetric technique. ************************************* The project has led to the submission of a patent application, nr. 01342, priority date 20.10.98. In the interest of prospective license takers, the technical contents of the project are withheld until the expiry of the so-called priority year, i.e. until 20.10.99. ************************************** The project was supported by Danish Agency for Trade and Industry, total support amounting to D.Kr. 180.000. The mediator was Frank Knudsen, Danish Technological Institute. Project leader: Svend B. Sørensen, FYS-DTU Project members: Per Skafte Hansen, IMM-DTU Nils Lykke Sørensen, AAA -------------------------------------------------- Although mentioned on ColorCode3D's website, Peter Wimmers software produces ordinary yellow/blue anaglyphs. The other methods that people have mentioned also do not produce the results that ColorCode3D's method does. Quite simply, I do not 'get' what ColorCode3D are about. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
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