IDEA: More 3D in the Future?
Okay, so recently I came across some homemade 3D images that were created out of footage shot from a CNN helicopter circling over the WTC on 9/11:
While it's kind of unfortunate that the images are of a sad subject, the technique is intriguing. The creator used near-consecutive frames as the camera moved horizontally to recreate L-eye and R-eye views, and the effect is realistic. He even posted versions that can be seen in 3D without the glasses (crossing your eyes blends the separate images into a floating 3D image). You might have seen this linked to in other blogs, and they deserve viewing because they are interesting and compelling in their own way.
But they got me thinking...
I mean, now that there is such an overwhelming amount of video footage on the internet, how many more of these could be made once more people learn about the idea? How about someone developing instructions for all of us to find scenes in our our own old home video footage to turn into 3D?
A simple search will find you several different websites that show how to make 3D images with your digital still camera using basic editing software and often with careful planning of how you shoot your image. But wouldn't it be great to go back to old videos of your children, or maybe even B&W home movies your grandparents took, and find a scene that can be brought into 3D?
And as the tools become more powerful in the coming years, who's to say we couldn't see a day when I find that brief shot that pans across the family posing in front of the Grand Canyon, I render the clip into a 3D still image, and send that to a 3D printer that 5 mintues later spits out a small sculpture for my desk of me and the kids at the Grand Canyon. In full color. Because framed photos are so 2008.
Oh, and let me email you the file so you can print one for your desk, too.
Anybody gonna make that happen soon? Let me know...
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