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Cross View Color Chronicle

Chinese Jet Pilot — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:29:22 -0800

Only a lucky few MeFites have the ability to view vaudevillian, commercial actor, inventor, and photographer George Mann's gorgeous vintage Kodachrome survey of Los Angeles coffee shops in 3-D as he intended.

The Final Alphabet

netbros — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:06:07 -0800

Arkitypo — Using the 26 letters of the alphabet as the starting point, the curators selected a specific typeface that began with each respective letter to develop a 3d alphabet of alphabets. After thoroughly researching the history of each letter, they set out to represent each individual character graphically with elements of its history serving as the foundation. Arkitypo: letter rotations on Vimeo.

The future, for a little while anyway

codacorolla — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:50:16 -0800

The future in 1988. (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) The future in 1989. The future in 1990. The future in 1991. The future in 1992. The future in 1993. The future in 1994. The future in 1995. The future in 1996. The future in 1997. The future in 1998. The future in 1999. The future in 2000. The future in 2001. The future in 2002. The future in 2003. The future in 2004. The future in 2005. The future in 2006. The future in 2007. The future in 2008. The future in 2009. The future in 2010. The future today. A collection of game and CG tech demos through the ages. For the main link before the jump:

Equinox Computer Graphics Special 1988 - Part 3 of 5. This is a one off Equinox computer graphics special documentary. It was first shown on UK Channel 4 back in 1988. This was shown during a time when CGI was starting to appear in the media. The animation looks very dated by today's standards, but at the time it was state of the art.

You are about to enter the Gallipoli Peninsula at Z Beach

tellurian — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:21:14 -0800

Gallipoli: The First Day [flash] An ABC documentary site about the WW1 ANZAC landing at Gallipoli, on 25 April 1915.

The Past in 3D

blahblahblah — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:42:40 -0800

3-D images have a longer history than you might imagine. Stereographs were invented in the mid-1800s, and quickly became very popular. You can still view 3-D pictures of the Civil War, cowboys and Native Americans, World War I, Egypt circa 1900, small town America of the 19th century, and zeppelin wrecks(!). How do you view them? You can buy or build a viewer (like this classic), but a better way might be to learn to do it with the naked eye (try this method if you have trouble). A new technique converts stereograms into "wiggle images" [prev.] the approach has been used on this picture of a downed zeppelin and this picture from the Civil War. Free software will let you make your own wiggle images.

The Villa Rustica in Hechingen-Stein.

homunculus — Tue, 21 May 2002 10:33:05 -0800

The Villa Rustica in Hechingen-Stein. Take a stroll through the remains of a 1st to 3rd Century Roman villa in southwestern Germany. Includes a 3D reconstruction and panoramas. I was especially impressed by the heating system.