Cotelio wrote:cybereality wrote:Well 23" would be the ideal size since we could use standard Super B transparencies. With 23" we can fill the full vertical space and only have about 0.5" of margin on the left or right. This is pretty minor and probably not noticeable while playing a game. If we go to 24" then there would be almost an inch margin on the sides (about 0.95"). I could get a roll of transparency, which would mean the full screen could be filled but this adds some cost to the project. But it certainly could be done. I did a quick search and the Acer G235hAbd seems like a nice candidate. It sells for around $140, its a 23" 1080P display with good reviews (however it could have better distribution):
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The key aspect of this is the economics. If you have to spend $300-400 it doesn't make sense because for that price you can get a real 120Hz 3D monitor.
cybereality wrote:wuhlei wrote:I'd rather just buy the sheets. Is any one selling them?
I would sell them myself, except every monitor is slightly different. I would need a template for each specific model. I was thinking maybe we could all choose a good cheap 1080P display and use that as a base model. So I would buy that screen and perfect the pattern on it, then I could send people the working pattern. Obvious you need to buy the monitor yourself. The monitors I was looking at would be around 23" 1080P and cost around $150.
I was happy, because I thought I had that exact monitor, then I was sad because I realized I had the 215 one, then I was meh because there wasn't something purchasable premade yet anyway, and then I went to check my printers DPIs and I have two 1200x1200s and one 2400x1200 and was happy because I thought I might be able to do this, and then I was sad again because none of them could handle a sheet big enough to do it in one solid piece and I don't have ink anyway. x3
Still, keeping an eye on this. o3o
Actually, I _will_ try this, once I have my computer back. I'll also try and get my hands on a couple different kinds of Anaglyph glasses, and hopefully purchase the full iZ3D driver. x3
Wow, is my printer's DPI really as high as I said there? It's a HP Deskjet D1560.
It is, nice.
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48k x 12k optimized? I don't trust that, sounds like scaling. It would be using black anyway, and black only says 12kx12k.
I figured I would call up Staples and see what their printer's specs are, because I know they do prints for people.
Let's see... so I would try a couple different patterns on one page, then tweak ( if needed ) the one that worked best and make a full page of that, right? Couldn't I cut it down to 2(extremely lucky) to 5 or so prints by making pages with a range of patterns, then make another range page of just between the two closest ones, kinda like calculating a square root by hand?
I hope Staples's printer is high enough DPI and can handle.. was it Super B? sheets, to cover my whole monitor with one sheet. Issa 21 inch, if you didn't get that from the part number.
I don't know anywhere else around here that does prints, though. One of my parents might have access to such a printer at their jobs, I guess. It'd be hell getting them to do it right, though, or even getting the right information about the printer. "What's the printer's model number? Uhm... tch tch tch... Lexmark."
Also, just to clarify. If you need to add or subtract a pixel every so many rows, you add or subtract to a black bar, and all the clear spaces are the same? Or is in the opposite? Or is it one for adding, and the other for subtracting, and if so which way is it? n_n;;;
Edit: Or, Cybereality, maybehaps I pay you, you mail me a sheet with a bunch of rows of the patterns in the ballpark range for my monitor, I tell you which one, and you send another of just that pattern, or another range sheet of just ones a lot closer to it for further tweaking? Just looking at sheet sizes, I would think it would be feasibly to fit 10 or 15 testably-sized rows on a sheet; theoretically every sheet of a range of patterns brings you a power of ten (or however many rows there are) closer, right?
Also, that's kind of one way that you could sell these without having premade customs for every monitor. It does require at least two sheets to be mailed per person though. Still, it sounds like $10-$30 ought to cover your material costs and then some and that plus the $40 of the unlocked iZ3D driver seems, to me, like a nice balance between anaglyph and the "professional" solutions.
You could get buy with charging more for having to mail more range sets, especially multiple "final" sheets, though I think you could probably save money and fit the range transparencys in a standard envelope by cutting them up, since only a relatively small chunk needs to be tested at a time to find the right one anyway, right?
Heck, I could see people being willing to pay you just for the first one or two personalized "ballpark range" sheets for their monitor and printer, to get them nice and close to where they need to be for the final pattern. I would. I'm lazy. x3
Still, even only counting the final materials, you should probably edit the title of that video if you can. $5 is misleading, expecially since the unlocked driver isn't free, even if a trial of it is. ;p
Or are my ideas off of reading the thread totally wrong and useless? x3