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Navigate our Website easily with our interactive Site Map: click the button above!CyberHolography
TM and ChromaDepth® 3-D are so simple that they can be confusing: to see holographic 3-D all you need is any
color picture and a pair of High Definition Glasses
(HD) or Standard (STD) Glasses. For great CyberHolographic 3-D the image should be designed using our Open CyberHolographyTM Standard, explained at our Image Design Page. Read on to learn more. |
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Get a pair of High Definition (HD)
Glasses to see this entire Website in CyberHolographicTM 3-D!
ChromaDepth® 3-D is the
only holographic 3-D image display
method ever created that can be easily
applied in an color medium. This new process
allows spectacular holographic images to be
created and presented in print, film, video,
television, computer graphic, and laser show
formats. The patented ChromaDepth®
3-D process enables the creation of 'normal'
looking color images that can be viewed as
two dimensional images alone, but which jump
into holographic 3-D when viewed with the
revolutionary and inexpensive ChromaDepth® 3-D
optics in High Definition (HD) and Standard
(STD) Glasses. HD and STD Glasses actually create holograms from the colors in a normal image!
Are there different kinds of ChromaDepth® Glasses?
Yes; ChromaDepth® Glasses
come in two different varieties, High
Definition (HD) Glasses and Standard (STD)
Glasses. HD Glasses optics are optimized for viewing CyberHologramsTM
displayed by computer. STD Glasses are optimized for use with C3DTM print images. We also recommend
STD Glasses for all uses by children.
STD Glasses provide very strong
3-D effects at the cost of some image
clarity. HD Glasses show slightly less depth, but the images are crisp and clear, which most adults prefer.
ChromaDepth® images designed for computer-based applications are called CyberHologramsTM
. Holographic depth is encoded into a CyberHologramTM by applying the design criteria of Chromatek's Open CyberHolographyTM
Standard. HD Glasses are used
to 'play' the holographic content of a CyberHologramTM.
Images designed for print-based applications are called C3DTM
images. They are best viewed with
STD Glasses. While any kind of
ChromaDepth® image, CyberHologramTM or C3DTM
, can be holographically 'played' with
either HD or STD Glasses, the optimium
combinations are to use HD Glasses with CyberHologramsTM , and
STD Glasses with printed C3DTM images.
The secret code of color:
The core concept of ChromaDepth®
and CyberHolographyTM is straightforward; encode depth into an image by means of color, then optically decode the color to create a true
holographic image. There are a variety of color palettes that produce effective programming of holographic depth, but the simplest one is this:
On a black background, red will appear closest, blue furthest, and the other colors will fall
in-between according to their place in the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue). |
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This is one example of a depth-encoding color palette. Chromatek's
Open CyberHolography Standard is a summary of color palettes, backgrounds, and rules for the use of color to accurately encode depth into computer-based CyberHologramsTM
. The rules are slightly different for C3DTM images designed for print, and are called the
ChromaDepth® Print Standard. Both standards are available at our Image Design page.
So how do CyberHologramsTM and C3DTM Images look?
In a phrase, beautifully holographic. CyberHologramsTM and C3DTM images float in a
holographic space that is centered the original image, with parts of the image floating above and parts beneath. What you actually see is a very high quality full color hologram.
ChromaDepth® optics in HD Glasses and
STD Glasses holographically 'float' the colors in an image at different points in space. These glasses actually are
general purpose holograms that work in conjunction with the colors in flat images to make a complete hologram.
Accidental CyberHologramsTM
Lovely examples of completely natural CyberHologramsTM
images can be found in almost any book of
underwater reef photography. The natural
colors of this world often fall accidentally
into the ChromaDepth® palette to
make the image beautifully holographic when
viewed with HD or STD Glasses.
Surprisingly, most trained artists already
understand ChromaDepth® depth
encoding and use it in much of their
artwork. They call it 'warm colors
approach, cool colors recede'. So
called 'warm' colors are reds, oranges, and
some yellows and 'cool' colors are blues and
blue-greens. Because of a number of
quirks of human perception, artists have
learned that artwork can be imbued with a
sense of depth by using the warm colors for
foreground imagery and the cool colors for
background imagery. Much advertising
and magazine artwork follows this design
rule, so these images often show great
holographic 3-D when viewed with HD or STD Glasses.
Accidental Holographic Movies
Even movies may be designed with this artist's rule; the recent movie 'Batman and Robin' (now available on video) shows fantastic
holographic effects because of its
strong ChromaDepth® suitable
colors! The producers didn't even
intend it to be 3-D! Other great HD and
STD
viewable movies include Disney's 'Pocahontas' and 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame', and parts of
the animated version of 'Anastasia'.
What special software is required to create CyberHologramsTM?
No special software is required. You can create CyberHologramsTM with
any color graphic design software. What changes is your design method, not your software. Great CyberHologramsTM can be created with Crayola Art Studio as well as
Adobe Illustrator.
Macromedia's Shockwave Flash 3 works particularly well for creating web site 'cartoon' CyberHologramTM
animations. Flash animations are extremely compact and fast to download. Macromedia's Flash 3 creation software is very well designed, with color morphing features that
make creating CyberHologramsTM a snap. Go to our Shockwave Flash page to see examples.
Rendering software can be used to create solid model, photorealistic CyberHologramsTM.
An excellent 3-D Studio ChromaDepth®
IPAS routine is available from the folks at EarthChannel (
www.earthchannel.com - note that this is an IPAS routine for 3-D Studio r4, not for 3-D Studio
Max). This routine can automatically create the right colors in the right places in a 3D Studio scene.
Visit our Applications & Links page to see how to create CyberHologramsTM in Open GL and VRML.
If you are comfortable with programming
there is a shareware/freeware solution to
automatic rendering in ChromaDepth®
3-D colors. This is by using the
shareware Polyray program and our freeware
ChromaDepth® 3-D procedural texture Polyray file. Polyray is a
fantastically capable raytracing rendering program for creating realistic images and animations, but it does not use a graphical interface. It is a batch program that runs instruction files
describing the image to be rendered. You can get both the Zipped Polyray files and our procedural texture file from our Downloads page.
OK, this sounds way cool, but
ChromaDepth®
3-D Glasses must be expensive, right?
No,
they are actually very affordable for
any application. For plain or generic
glasses, there is a 50-pair minimum order
starting at $1.00 each plus applicable
freight charges. Online ordering coming
soon! Just call 901-381-1515, email
c3d@3dglassesonline.com or fax
901-381-1517 to order! Larger orders of
custom-printed paper-framed glasses can be
purchased at substantial discounts, making
them very attractive for premiums and
promotions. Wendy's, Kraft Foods, Nintendo,
and many other companies have used
ChromaDepth®
3-D Glasses in successful national
campaigns. Click here --->
ChromaDepth Promotions
Plastic-framed High Definition or HD
and C3DTM Glasses may also be
ordered in quantity. Pricing starts at
$5.00 each for a minimum of ten pair, with
discounts for larger volumes. Click here
--->
ChromaDepth Plastic Glasses
How can I learn more?
Get
some High Definition or HD Glasses and view the CyberHologramsTM in our Image Gallery, then
visit our Animations pages. Seeing working CyberHolographyTM is the best way to understand it. For more information, visit our FAQ page and our Image Design pages. This whole website is CyberHolographicTM, and our Applications & Links pages will take you to other places on the web
where CyberHolographyTM is being used in many different ways. Be sure to try our site map, on the button menu at the top of each page, to navigate around our website.
Oh, by the way....(legal stuff)
American Paper Optics is the only
manufacturer of ChromaDepth®
optics in the world. We manufacture
our optical film in the USA, and assembly of
ChromaDepth® optics into glasses
is performed by one of several approved US
printing and converting companies.
'Open CyberHolographyTM Standard',
'ChromaDepth® 3-D', and 'ChromaDepth® Print Standard' are all used to refer to the process of coloring images according to
ChromaDepth®
color-based three-dimensional depth encoding.
'High Definition or HD' and 'High
Definition or HD Glasses' refer to glasses containing Chromatek's
ChromaDepth®
optical film which has been optimized for computer display applications. 'Standard' and 'Standard Glasses' refer to glasses containing Chromatek's
ChromaDepth®
optical film which has been optimized for use with printed images. 'CyberHologramTM' and natural grammatical variants of that name, such as 'CyberHologramsTM',
'CyberHolographyTM', and 'CyberHolographicTM' refer to computer-generated and/or computer-displayed images incorporating Chromatek's patented
ChromaDepth®
color-based three-dimensional depth encoding. All of the italicized words in this paragraph are trademarks of
American Paper Optics, Inc. with all rights reserved. |
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