True story #485: I’m hopelessly in love with the third dimension.
Yeah, I know that life is in 3D. But movies? Flat as a pancake. Unless, of course, you have those groovy glasses. One red lens, one blue lens – the rest is history. Though I am usually heavily interested in the science behind things, this is Random Sunday Night – so I’ll leave that up to HowStuffWorks.
Me? I’m going to rave about 3D movies.
I remember being little and seeing pictures, most notably in the book Visual Magic (ISBN #9781402743610 in case the link doesn’t work). The book came with a free pair of 3D glasses and showed me some of the first red/cyan pictures and I was blown away. Whoa, it jumps right out of the page! Five-year-old me was pretty stunned by that.
3D fell out of popularity, but never quite out of my mind. My interest was once again sparked by none other than VH1 – the third installment of its “I Love The 80s” show was filmed entirely in 3D. Since then, it’s made a relatively large comeback! Movies are once again being filmed and shown in 3D – I saw The Nightmare Before Christmas a few years ago, and most recently, Monsters Vs. Aliens.
Side note, I recommend this movie most highly. I haven’t laughed this hard in what seems like forever – and the global warming crack made my scientist heart smile.
When I was searching for images, I came across this site – they’ll send you a free pair of 3D glasses so long as you pay the postage for a letter there! I’ll definitely be doing this in the morning…but for now, I return you to your regularly scheduled programming. Expect a BLAG about the eruptions on the Galapagos sometime this week if I remember!
Have you got a pair of those red/blue anaglyph glasses handy? (Check your stash of old National Geographics if you don’t.) When you’ve got them, take a look at some of the anaglyph GigaPans I’ve put together: http://ron.outcrop.org/blog/?p=263