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Old 4th July 2014, 01:37 AM   #1
avesthefox
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Cool A clever trick for viewing AC3D models in '3D'

Ever want to see your models in actual 3D.... while you edit them?

This little trick isnt the most effective means, but it does work! And I've find that it works quiet nicely with AC3D.

1.] Take a cheap pair of sun glasses
2.] remove the right lens (or the left, it may vary according to your own eyes)
3.] Put them on.
4.] Launch AC3D and open the model of your choice
5.] Rotate the model in the 3D screen (the effect works only when things are in a certain motion
6.] Have fun!

This is called the Pulfrich effect. The theory works as follows:

While wearing the glasses with one lens covering one eye and the other eye remaining uncovered -- the uncovered eye is receiving the image before the uncovered eye. Because there is a delay of the image between the two eyes it tricks the brain into seeing two different versions of the image. When the image is in motion there may be a sort of parallax effect which can give the image a sort of depth.

This method of viewing things also works with movies and video-games. It doesn't always work however, the image always needs to be in a certain motion (the most effective is when something is moving/rotating from left to right or right to left... also depending on the frame that you've taken out of the glasses)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulfrich_effect
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