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For those of you having a difficult time finding 3D glasses, you can order a pair for FREE (okay, the cost of a SASE):

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Be sure to ask for the ā€œ3D Glassesā€ (for comics)and you should be good to go.

-Charles

OK, I tried it with Corel Photo-Paint. There is no way to use the alpha grab because displace only works in the positive direction and the bitmap you choose for a filter ends up as tiny tiles all over the place. I used offset, which allows you to offset at cb3d instructed (with edge repeat and -15, +15, and stretch). I had to monkey with the instructions some. Once I did the +15 offset, I split the image into rgb channels and saved the red channel only as ā€œredrightā€ then converted it to rgb. Still appeared as grayscale (normal). Then I used Image/Adjust/Replace Colors and replaced all black with pure red. Save again. Then displace -15, split channels, save the Blue channel, convert to RGB, replace color with pure blue. Save again. Now I have original picture, centered in full color. Left image, shifted -15, colored blue with only the blue channel. Right image, shifted +15, colored red with only the red channel. I then combined all 3 images. Do this by opening all 3 images, then look only at the full color original. Open the Object Rollup. Switch to the blue image, select all, copy, then paste it into color image as ā€œnew objectā€. Do the same with the red image. You now have the full color picture with 2 additional ā€œobjectsā€. Use the merge option in the objects rollup, with ā€œRedā€ selected. it works!

Slosh, It’s cool that you found a way to do this in Photo-Paint. It appears that you have more of the red channel present than the blue and green (hence the reddish tint). It was hard to tell from your description, and I am not a Photo-Paint user, but it is important to make sure that both left and right images used are basically grayscale - with the same gray values. Convert both images back to RGB so that your red, green and blue channels appear, but the images still appear grayscale. Then you just need to copy and paste the red channel from the left view into the red channel of the right. That should do it.

-Charles

Thanks, cb3d. Actually, after posting the last one, I fiddled some more and had just figured out a better way when I read your response. How is this one? I used a slightly smaller displacement (10).

Added Congratulations to Ron Harris and Slosh your work in this technique is looking great !!

Slosh, you nailed it! Looks great!

I must say, I am really pleased at how fast you guys put this technique to the test.

I am not as confident with Zbrush yet to do work of the quality that some of you are producing, so it is great to see others good work turned into 3D - and so quickly! :slight_smile:

-Charles

Charles…snicker…you screwed up most of my day…lol…I played with this technique all afternoon…my kids enjoyed viewing it all too… and great job Slosh…here is one more of mine I redid with the method…I may end up posting a little gallery area of these type 3d images…

Great idea with the Army flashlight. It works, if only I could mount these somehow. Cool stuff! Seems that the offset has quite an effect on the amount of depth. Just a little goes a long way. :cool: :cool: :cool:

Cool image, Ron. I assume the background being visible in only the right eye is intentional(?)

ā€œRetinal rivalryā€, in this case when an element is visible to one eye and not the other, is popular for creating surreal effects. It seemed to work very well for this image.

-Charles

super :sunglasses: technique, cb3d :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: and great experiments everyone! i just have robos chromateks at hand so i wont get the full effect until i finally get myself some 3d glasses, but they look awesome anyway!

  • juandel

Due to some kewl stuff Robotalk has been posting using old timie 3d glasses I thought it might be nice to find this thread again and revitalize the technique for some of the new people here on the forum if they were interested…I really had to search a bit to find it…I will be posting more trials myself on this thread shortly. Hope you all join in the fun.

Here’s a quickie that I did.

I didn’t use the same technique to blend the two images together as the others did in this thread, but this technique works too. :slight_smile:

The compositing was done entirely in ZBrush, in this case. I rendered and baked both the layers and then I used the clone brush on one of the layers at 50% with the drag rectangle stroke to create the double exposure.

The third dimension :smiley:
Pilou

WingedOne’s technique actually produced a more natural feel with the glasses on, I think. Which is great, since no additional software is required. Doing things entirely in ZBrush is way cool.

That said, either program is scriptable. There needn’t be so many steps once the process is reduced to a single button…

converted one of my recent images…

I really love this method!! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: Thanx for sharing!!!

Talent and more you have .I dont really care about 3D look or the glases, but you are what I am …experiment… I do lots of it fool around with a program and yes I will get the glasses ane have a look. Great stuff, " you think a ols dog like me who has never done any modelling could do that?.
hehehehe… will try. :slight_smile: :+1:

Excellent work! I can see that the creative juices are flowing! Looking forward to more! :slight_smile: :+1: :+1: :+1: This is fun. I would like to try a landscape using this method, it should be a riot :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Love it Naax!!! and those glasses look excellant also…This is a very fun thing to do with zbrush creations…I look forward to seeing more of these :slight_smile: I am going to convert a few of my own in the near future…zbrush is so versatile and works great for this. Thanx for sharing your results…they turned out great :ex: :ex: :ex:

Thanx a lot Ron and DeeVee :slight_smile: i admire your work very much, your words are a present for me :wink:

Bertrush, I’m quite newbie here and the progressions after visiting this forum came fast! The works you’ve showed here are great and you could not quit visiting and learning highspeed how to use zbrush :wink: keep on showin your results :+1:

I did this mixing both technics showed here (maybe more were explained and i did not understod… :P) I only used the displacement into the red chanel (in photoshop) without turning the image into grey scale. just one displacement worked better, (i repeat that i could have missed something into the whole post and this was said before… :confused: )

thanx