meeting of Aug 31/98

Meeting of Aug 31/98

14 people showed up, a smaller group than usual. Gary Cullen gave a talk and display of the very early stereo cameras/viewers including the first stereo camera built (we must try taking a 3dClub picture with it!). Dragan Smekal presented his work of stereo slides of the human brain (wow!) - amazing to see this in 3D as opposed to just textbook pictures. Dragan had used a Macro-Realist, a camera that was actually designed for dentists to take stereos of the patients mouth and teeth. And as a finale, Eva Foik presented a wonderful selection of recent slides from using a Belplasca camera.

During the meeting, Peter Lowery took a number of stereo picture with his Argus 3D Stereo camera. The film was processed at Black's where there is the option to also have the prints digitized (resolution of 768x512, jpg sizes of 52-85k). I downloaded the photos from the Black's website, ran them through Corel PhotoPaint to increase jpg compression (reduced the file sizes to 23-41k) and place them into our 3D Club site having Frontpage generate thumbnails. Click thumbnails for the complete photo , parallel view for stereo (try the omniscope to assist in viewing them!).

Gary Cullen
Dragan Smekal Eva Foik Rolf Eipper with Dragan Smekal in background Me (Bernd) outside

The group watching Smekal's brain presentation The group watching Foik slide presentation Gary's early stereo cameras on display Another view of the cameras Gary by his car


Gary Cullen	Dragan Smekal	Eva Foik	Rolf Eipper with Dragan Smekal in background	Me (Bernd) outside

The group watching Smekal's brain presentation	The group watching Foik slide presentation	Gary's early stereo cameras on display	Another view of the cameras	Gary by his car