Oct 012012
 


Assuming you are not a licker, do you bite that top curl of ice cream off with your lips or teeth?

Again, I would like to apologize for hurting your eyes with my last 3D video (located here: http://youtu.be/5EAPdt193Ls ) with the extreme amount of negative parallax (comin’ at ya effect).
As much as I know about stereo graphics, that was very unthoughtful of me, but I forgot about the limitations of people who don’t practice looking at 3D every day. I thought that maintaining a perfectly cubic illusion (2.8% to 3.8% net object deviation) while pushing the ice cream cone off the screen into your face would work.
I think the illusion of things getting closer to you is created mainly by zooming in, like I did in this video.
In this video, I again used no positive parallax (beyond the screen effect, which can quickly cause people to have to diverge their eyes, once the screen gets to a certain size), but I limited the amount of negative parallax to about 5%, which will bring the near point out about 1/3rd of the way from the screen to your eyes. This is now officially another one of my Stereoscopic 1/3rd Rules for comfortable viewing. The playground has narrowed, but there’s still plenty of room for perfect 3D.

Aug 102011
 

Coin For A Joker

3D Flash Version (via StereoPhotoMaker):
http://rogermaddy.com/3dflash/jokercoin/

Full rez Parallel Pair:
http://rogermaddy.com/3dflash/jokercoin/jokercoin_p.jpg

Along with a strong faith in Stereoscopic Religion, good stereo graphics require a good dose of human intelligence.
3D images of relatively flat objects make “poor” 3D, unless you figure out how to give them a Holy amount of NetD.
My Holy choice is as close to 3.33% as possible.
Here is a very shiny and bright coin laying flat on a joker on a table.

Thanks,
Roger Maddy
Blog: http://rogermaddy.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rogermaddy

Mar 142011
 

Yup… read it and weep. It is TRUE. God has been talking to me, again. This usually happens to me in the middle of the night. He usually says, “Get up and go pee.” This happened to me again last night!
If you think I’m joking, just imagine what would happen if He didn’t say that!

Now, there’s a few things that “came to me” after I got back in bed, but I honestly cannot say for sure if it was God telling me these things… I’m just being honest, Buckaroos. I guess I will know “later” if these ideas came from God or not. BTW, #4 is, by far, the most exciting, so you might want to read it first. ;)

1) Creative Karaoke.
a) Instead of singing a song, try to convincingly “speak” the words like you would a poem.
b) Listen to a karaoke soundtrack via headphones, then record (or make a video) of you singing the song, i.e. the only thing people will hear is you singing…
c) and so on… ;)

2) 3D Kites.
This is actually an old idea of mine, so I will look and try to find old posts or videos about it. Imagine a bunch of kites in the sky that have stereoscopic 3D graphics on them (probably anaglyph would be easiest), and a group of spectators looking at them via 3D glasses.

3) Musical Kites.
Another old idea. I’ve got an old post about this, too. I will try to find it. Think of kites that actually make “music” somehow. Then, how about a “kite band”, i.e. a group of people flying musical kites together… etc… you know what I mean…

4) Aggressive, Random “Friending”.
When Janice (Maddy) and I were in Facebook, that creepy, evil, weird social networking site that Satan created (;)), I used an aggressive technique of “friending” people that was based on “personal interests”, e.g. music, fitness, 3D, etc. It generated almost 5,870 friends in 6-8 months or so, and AAMOF, it got to the point to where it was “self-generating” and we no longer had to look for friends, i.e. they simply found us, and Janice actually reached the “Facebook limit” soon after that (5,000). :) People were coming in by the bus loads, at that point. ;)
But, I’m not really sure if the idea of using “personal interests” to acquire friends works any better than just using a “random” method… by simply just going out there and aggressively trying to friend anybody and everybody… with the idea that people are people, and _all_ people have lots of things in common.
So, my idea is to just go get ‘em, Buckaroos… anybody and everybody. ;)
Now, why do I want so many friends? Networking. Sharing. Helping. Showing. Etc. Maybe even “selling”. If I have something that is valuable to others, then being in contact with large numbers of “friends” would theoretically make it “easier” to sell something…

Do you dig this?
Hey, I gotta go pee… I’ll be back later. LOL.

Roger Maddy
RogerMaddy.com
rogermaddy@rogermaddy.com