Wednesday, August 17, 2011

3D Basics

If you're going to the MCAI 3D Meeting tonight (see yesterday's blog) be sure and brush up on your 3D basics.  Here's some simple definitions to start you out:

Interocular distance is the distance between your eyes or the lenses (you're eyes are about 2 1/2" apart).
Zero parallax is where the screen is.
Positive Parallax is everything deeper than the screen.
Negative parallax is everything in front of the screen.
Convergence is how much your eyes cross.


The real trick is focus the camera on the convergence plane and hopefully that's not more than 20% into negative parallax.  Or just have a deep depth of field like most 3D films...

If you understood that you're good to go.  If not:
http://web.me.com/abeato/sd3dcalculator/Stereo_3D_Fundamentals.html
http://mcai-oc.org/

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