I was just messing around with this huge collection of Science Fiction magazines I have. I usually scan a couple and post them to my site every sunday. This morning though, I was fantasizing about the rift coming soon and started thinking that I could cobble together some 3d versions of these covers.
I had fun with it. The brown one turned out the most 3d probably.
I was doing it completely un-scientifically. Just spacing more closer to the eyeball, and less in the distance. The vehicle in the background really falls apart around the headlights, but if you look up toward the windshield it sort of works.
Interesting. There's probably a way to automate this by first overlaying a layer and painting depths over the image (imagine a greyscale image where the lighter/darker means more/less depth) and then use that with a pixel shift to generate the two images. One would shift left depending on the greyscale value on the dept map, the other right. The problem with doing it by hand is that you have to be really careful that you don't change the vertical position, which appears to be what's happened with the train in the above picture.
One other thing is that, depending on the object, it's possible to just enlarge foreground objects to cover up missing pixels rather then having to paint it manually. This only works if the foreground object is (or can be) wider then the number of pixels that you are shifting it for depth.
yeah, with the guy/bus I just moved stuff around without much thought. I like how the guy pops out, but the the bus is screwy.
I considered creating a z-depth grayscale like you mentioned, but it seemed like a lot of work.
Another thought I had was to create multiple planes in my 3d animation software and map the image to the planes. This would allow for easy depth control, but then I'd have to deal with lens distortion. (well, maybe not if I rendered orthographically)..
The entire mtbs3d downloadsection seems down or nuked.
Anyway i did find one revision (10, probably the first) on my computer. The author made some updates with extra functions but unfortunately a quick search didn't reveal anything more.
Get my copy of photoforms here.
The Iz3d-driver can be found in the Iz3d download section.
