Make Your Own 3D Movies to View with Polarizer Glasses!

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• Philosophy

  • Sight and the psychology of vision is based upon seeing with both eyes. 

  • Your depth perception is obtained by seeing the same image from two different angels, from your right and left eye. 

  • Depth perception can also be from observing motion. 

• 3-D Movies

  • 3-D movies use the same philosophy by filming an image from two different positions. 

  • The camera lens is split into halves.  One half directly films the image while the other half reflects off mirrors slightly changing the angle.  The focal point remains the same. 

• Make Your Own

  • Materials

    • About a square foot piece of plywood

    • 2 mirrors

    • Two clamps or some way to stabilize the mirrors

    • Camera

    • Hot glue gun and glue

    • Drill

    • Rubber bands

    • Polarizer

    • Polarizer glasses or 3-D glasses

    • Tape

    • Something to film!

  • Procedure

    • Drill a hole in the plywood so that you can screw the camera on to the plywood.  OR  Secure the camera to the plywood with rubber bands or tape.

    • Make the mirrors stand up strait by placing a clamp on the bottom of them.

    • Position the mirrors on the plywood as shown above and here so that the mirror catches the right half view of the camera lens.

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    • Hot glue the mirrors in place.

    • Make a polarizer lens cover.

      • Cut a polarizer in half.

      • Tape together the two pieces at right angles to create your camera "lens cover".

      • Use polarizer glasses or 3-D glasses to turn your "lens cover" so that you can see through the right side with your right eye (left eye closed).  The right half will be polarized at a 45-degree angle and the left half will be polarized at a 135-degree angle so that it matches with the design of polarizer glasses. 

      • Tape your "lens cover" so that it covers the camera lens.

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    • Film your movie!!

  • Watch your movie

    • Set up the projector so that it is in the same position as the camera was when you filmed.

    • Place the polarizer lens cover over the projector lens.

    • Project the 3-D movie onto a lenticular silvered screen.

    • Put on your polarizer glasses or 3-D glasses to view your movie!!

Friday, October 12, 2007

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