Urgent: Need glasses!

[DennisHolland]

Hi all,

 

this is a rather unusual question, posted in the most read section of the forum.

 

My client asked me to produce a so called 'stereogram' for marketing benefits. The story is: A chain of shops, selling glasses (reading and regular) for the consumer markets is on the gimmick-tour. The marketingtool for 'point of sale advertising' is to have peeps stare into a stereogram without glasses, and then WITH glasses on (so, haha, they need glasses). The glasses needed to discover a stereogram are NOT the basic red/blue stuff, but different. My prob is, that i don't have a clue what these glasses are and more important,... where to get 'm asap!

 

Any hint or lead is more than welcome. This is a sort of understatement...

 

Many thanks in advance for reply's in this.

 

All the best, enjoy

Dennis de Priester

[BillyElNino]

Have a look at wikipedia, specifically at a stereoscope, these may be the goggles you're looking for.

 

(bear in mind that Wikipedia may be partly or wholly made up though!)

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Sterosco.jpg

[Ernest Burden III]

Usually, stereo in color is done with polarized lenses and filtered images.

[AJLynn]

Wait a minute... they have glasses for looking at stereograms? You're just supposed to look at it and cross your eyes.

[Ernest Burden III]

look at it and cross your eyes.

 

then they'll really need glasses!

[AJLynn]

Remember in Mallrats - the guy who's staring at the picture the whole movie, and people keep walking by, looking at and saying "It's a sailboat!", and then the kid says "It's a schooner!" and the guy says "No, it's a sailboat," and the kid gives him a weird look. And people keep telling him to cross his eyes. That's a stereogram.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram

 

I really don't think there are glasses for that, unless he means the normal 3d film effect or the version they use now for things like Superman is 3d Imax (which was cool!). Either way I think it's a dumb idea

[vizwhiz]

wouldnt The company doing This promotion have just These glasses??

if They do, get some!, if not what are They using To promote Their product?

[landrvr1]

Remember in Mallrats - the guy who's staring at the picture the whole movie, and people keep walking by, looking at and saying "It's a sailboat!", and then the kid says "It's a schooner!" and the guy says "No, it's a sailboat," and the kid gives him a weird look. And people keep telling him to cross his eyes. That's a stereogram.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram

 

I really don't think there are glasses for that, unless he means the normal 3d film effect or the version they use now for things like Superman is 3d Imax (which was cool!). Either way I think it's a dumb idea

 

 

Major, MAJOR props to you for getting a Mallrats reference going. :cool:

[cdos00]

I believe what he is refering to is an anaglyph (see below)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_image

 

If you google search for the term there are plenty of resources to help you produce such an image, as well as places to purchase the various "glasses" needed to view them. Good luck!

 

We have used this process with limited effectiveness in the past. I think it is actually kind of fun, it takes you back to those days of the red/blue glasses...kind of cool.