Get 3D-TJH.ZIP (160 Kb)
Get 3D-TJH.ZIP (160 Kb)
This is a 3D AutoDesk .FLI animation. I made it some time ago as an ad for my brothers BBS. Then it was quite new and we even got a login from as far as Brazil, which was very special in the pre-internet age. The BBS has ceased to be, but the animation is still quite amazing despite its modest size (for 2400 baud modems). You will need those coloured 3D-glasses to watch it. Here in Holland we are used to red/green filters, but if you've got those blue/red ones or in fact any other red/blue/green combination, you can easily convert the flic to this combination with the included tool.
I made this animation with 3D-studio. A 3D scene was rendered with 2 camera’s next to each other (just like your eyes). The output from each camera was filtered to a RGB component and both flics where mixed using DTA. When you watch the final animation through the coloured glasses as indicated in the right corner of the animation you should see it in 3D. The colour filters of the glasses separate the combined flic into the original camera views. The right eye will only see the flic from the right camera and vice versa as other colours are filtered out.
The filters used in those cardboard glasses originate from the film world (for spotlight, etc) and are not especially made to seperate monitor phosphor colours. Through a green filter, for instance, one can see red as brown, while it should be black (and vanish in the background). This limits the 3D effect a bit...
The flic is 320x200, 30 frames and you will need a VGA colour display and some type of 3D-glasses to watch it. The zip file contains the flic, a DOS flic player and a tool to convert the flic (or any FLI/GIF87a file) to an other colour combination. You can play it under Windows too, if your media player supports .FLI flics.
To play AutoDesk FLI files on your Windows desktop, you can use the free player form the AutoDesk/Kinetix site: WinPlay
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