Artifact 01

Colour Anaglyph




COLOUR ANAGLYPH ARTIFACT 01

The purpose of this series of artifacts originates in my will to incorporate 3d parts in the film that I will present as my final project for this year. The reason that I elected to experiment with 3d techniques was not just the recent surge in 3d films in cinemas around the world, but also the amazing progress of the 3d technology over these last few years, culminating in the “Avatar” phenomenon.
The first artifact of this series was created using the first ever created 3d technique, the colour anaglyph method. Anaglyph images are used to provide a stereoscopic 3D effect, when viewed with 2 color glasses (each lens a chromatically opposite color, usually red and cyan). Images are made up of two color layers, superimposed, but offset with respect to each other to produce a depth effect. Usually the main subject is in the center, while the foreground and background are shifted laterally in opposite directions. The picture contains two differently filtered colored images, one for each eye. When viewed through the "color coded" "anaglyph glasses", they reveal an integrated stereoscopic image. The visual cortex of the brain fuses this into perception of a three dimensional scene or composition.
Anaglyph images have seen a recent resurgence due to the presentation of images and video on the internet, Blu-ray HD disks, CDs, and even in print. Low cost paper frames or plastic-framed glasses hold accurate color filters, which typically, after 2002 make use of all 3 primary colors. The current norm is red for one channel (usually the left) and a combination of both blue and green in the other filter. That equal combination is called cyan in technical circles, or blue-green.
The reason that I chose this particular scene from my film was that I wanted to see how the different 3d techniques would respond to a moving person (in the scene the actress is running at a high speed). At the end of this particular experiment, I believe that even the low-tech option of anaglyph images can provide a very satisfactory result as far as image and aesthetics are concerned.