**This is a non-commercial, for-fun-only, site!** ...stereoscopic 3D MPEG video clips. Viewing instructions and other important tips are at the bottom of this page.
"Waterfall Pounds Sand Near Cannon Beach, Oregon"
Both videos are 2.25M, 30fps and 32 seconds long. RIGHT Click on an image below and "Save Target As" (IE) or "Save Link As" (NS):
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No, that's not a storm you hear... it's the wind hitting my microphones. I'm still a newbie :-) I don't think I've ever seen another waterfall like this that's actually on a beach! What a surprise to find this one on the Oregon coast. This video, including *live*, stereo audio, shows the waterfall and a pan of the beach near it, with some of those world-famous Oregon coast rock formations. On a technical note, I sure hope that people are looking at these 3D videos, as they are a real pain in the neck to edit, using the *low end*... or shall we say *consumer grade* equipment that I have :-) This little segment took a couple of hours to put together... such is life without professional equipment. Challenges are numerous. This one was out of sync, for no known or logical reason, and I had to go back and delete some individual frames to get it to work. Also, one of my cams is not vertically aligned with the other, and attempts to physically correct this have failed, thus far... so, I have to rotate it with software. Also, one cam has to be resized to match the other... a manual zoom problem... minimal zoom is wide angle. Somewhere _around_ half zoom is a normal view... somewhere unknown :-) I will admit that I've started to *cheat* with software to get this part of the editing done by using Adobe After Effects... I still use VirtualDub for everything else, however. The 3D conversions in VirtualDub can't be matched, IMHO. One last comment... the audio has to be drug into a sound editing program to get the stereo panned out to a left/right orientation, then mixed back into the video... it ends up being the original sound track, but I'm using two mono sources... did I mention that I'm using *consumer grade* equipment? ;-)
"3D Cyberkite-Making"
Both videos are less than 600K, 15fps and 6 seconds long. RIGHT Click on an image below and "Save Target As" (IE) or "Save Link As" (NS):
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Look... don't laugh... a newbie cyberkite-maker has to start somewhere. Here in Cyberkite Fantasy Land, I made a few newbie mistakes right off the bat. I wanted to see if I could come up with a very basic component of a cyberkite and see if it would fly. I cut a tiny piece of ugly brown ripstop (that's a real piece... well, okay a photo of a real piece :-) and starched it. Dumb. That was really dumb. As you can see in the video animation, it made it fly like a board, and it made the transparent properties of ripstop... erm... opaque :-( Well, you see, I was trying to keep from making a frame for my first cyberkite... So... my next experiment will hopefully be done with rods and other important cyberkite-making materials... and the starching will be a thing of the past... along with the ugly brown ripstop. Yuk! At this point, I'm just struggling with the tools, you see. I'm a newbie, you know :-)
"Block Collision In Space - 3D Photography Meets Virtual Reality"
Both videos are less than 1M, 15fps and 9 seconds long. RIGHT Click on an image below and "Save Target As" (IE) or "Save Link As" (NS):
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Now this is fun! I borrowed a real photograph of a child's block, imported it into a 3D modeling program, fiddled around with it and created a VR (virtual reality "wrl") file, saved it, then imported it into a VR-viewing software program that has stereoscopic capabilities (plus the ability to spin the image and create a simple animation... I did the zooming manually). Lastly, I captured the results with a real-time screen capture program. I'm a newbie with VR, so this is pretty *elementary* stuff, but the potential for creating some pretty wild and crazy *real* 3D, using actual photographs is almost overwhelming! For those interested, the programs I used were "Milkshape3D", "3Space Assistant" and "Camtasia".
Hey! Click here for "VirtualDub3D", a simple, tiny, FREEware viewer/converter for all 3D video formats on your PC! (Nothing to *install*! Just download it, unzip it and start using it! You can even use it from a CD!) This program plays and converts 3D MPEG or AVI videos (crossed, parallel, over/under, interlaced, anaglyph). Even usually-difficult red/blue anaglyph conversions are amazingly good quality and almost completely ghost-free! And... you don't have to save a converted video to view it! (Use the program as a simple 3D media player.)
3D viewing instructions:
Anaglyphs (Wear
red-cyan or red-blue glasses, with red on the left. Here's a free pair. Here's some to buy. The
cheap ones made from cardboard work very well.) 
Parallel pairs (Freeview the thumbnails
the same way you view Magic Eye stereograms. Use a stereo viewer for large images.) Crossed (Slightly cross
your eyes and focus your left eye on the right image and your
right eye on the left image... a popular format for large
computer images.) 
LC Shutter glasses (Row Interleaved - Left First. Turn on your 3D
glasses then open the image. Videos will have to be opened in a
media player.)
