Comments on: RL Hologram from a Second Life avatar

By: Pi Numbers

Pi Numbers — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:27:33 +0000

Wait until they start exporting SL characters into First Life using this technique:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBxGzfc9wL4&eurl=http://www.nowwearetalking.com.au/news/hugh-bradlows-debut-as-a-hologram

By: Karla

Karla — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:52:04 +0000

Hi all. I’m the owner of Flipograph.com and we can do any quantity from 1 up. We handle any size up to 8 x 10 in-house, and have associates who do bigger sizes. Although most of our customers want just 2-flips, we can do up to 5. Each flip cuts down on the resolution. A 2-flip is half the resolution of a flat (just sits there) print. A 3-flip is 1/2 of a photo-print resolution. We do use high quality photo paper and print at 300 dpi, but the quality really depends on the original digital images. A single 4 x 6 2-flip Flipograph costs just $13. We also do business cards. Just send a query to info@flipograph.com for pricing.

By: October Hush

October Hush — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:32:28 +0000

Oooh, that’s totally awesome. It is on the pricey side for sure, though
=(

By: Vint Falken

Vint Falken — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:28:29 +0000

Thank you Kasumi. Still rather expensive (hell, do I need 300?) but the most interesting offer we’ve come upon. I’m definitely considering Mr. Contini’s DIY tips, though. =d

By: Vint Falken

Vint Falken — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:26:19 +0000

From Mr. Contini:

I’tis part of my research about how to expand and present artistic work done in second life in real life: in fact in next october 2008 here in florence we will organize a big big event, that is “creativity festival” ( http://www.festivaldellacreativita.it/index.jsp?language=en 300.000 people attended last year)..during this event we will have “Virtual renassaince”, a mixed reality art exhibit…so probably i will use some lenticular print for some piece of art…becouse REAL holographic work is too difficult ( and veery expensive like musion sistem )to achieve lol..

The process, that is only a test for experiment with second life lenticular printing, is simple, and there is not external service involved, that is pretty good to experiment before to send to a printing service..all printed in home with a normal c86 Epson, a software and some lenticular self-adhesive sheets.

The research and test of a good software was a little tricky, because poor, or no documentation at all but at the end i find a software that is very nice and simple to manage and is mac/win : http://www.humaneyes.com/ - 60 days trial as full software! And you could order from HumanEyes the lenticular sheet too..
Than the hard part: shooting in sl. At the end I find that with 10 photos in sl you could achieve a pretty good result as you could see in video.for a portrait, .but I’m still experimenting with “postcard like” panoramas and object…
for now, best regards!
cristian

(posted with permission, of course)

By: The Grid Live » Second Life News for March 17, 2008

The Grid Live » Second Life News for March 17, 2008 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:16:02 +0000

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By: Kasumi Reiko

Kasumi Reiko — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:39:08 +0000

Here is a place that ships world wide from Canada that mentions Business Cards.

http://www.snap3d.com/index.htm

By: October Hush

October Hush — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:09:45 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a DIY kit out there to do this…something with software, the lenticular lens and probably something to print on. I would imagine aligning the lens to the paper would have to be pretty precise, though.

I would love to see it done…it would be cool to have pseudo-3D images of my SL friends =)

By: Vint Falken

Vint Falken — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:54:08 +0000

Nobody, updated the article. October Hush told me the technique used is ‘lenticular printing’. (see blogpost)

I found one service that does this small quantity (starting ‘1′) on demand for a reasonable price, but they only allow two images… . Not usefull for re-creating something as kewl as Christian Contini did, but could be of use to you? (’bird there’ *flip* ‘bird has flown’ ?)

They are called Flipograph.com.

By: Nobody Fugazi

Nobody Fugazi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:13:27 +0000

hmm. Good question on ‘whodunnit’. I’d love to know where to get this done - I don’t have any immediate uses for it with Second Life, but this could be cool for some of the bird shots I have…