Monsters vs. Aliens. I've never seen a 3-D movie before today! Well, the movie wasn't 3-D but there's a featurette about 10 minutes long that's totally cool with the glasses.

I mean, I tried watching The Creature From the Black Lagoon but it didn't work for me. The Nightmare on Elm Street, I didn't see squat.

might be the colors used in the process. I've never done the red/green ones.

Still on the lookout for the red/cyan ones.

Oh, my wife is trying to watch the featurette in 3-D but it's not working for he because SHE'S BLIND IN ONE EYE! "Why won't it work?" she keeps asking.

The few 3-D movies that I have bought on DVD, I have only watched on my PC. No adjustment to view it required. The last I bought was Journey to the Center of the Earth, and for the most part it was pretty good, some scenes were lacking. I need to try it on my analog TV. I have a 20 inch TV, and a 19 inch LCD monitor, you can see why the PC is picked.

Sounds like you might have a spot of color-blindness to me, Michael. That's the only thing which explains the problem - assuming that the 3D glasses you were wearing at each of those different viewings weren't somehow defective. And despite what some folks might tell you, there are indeed degrees of color blindness. Ask a optometrist. It's something about the Rods....

The Rods... The RODS!!!! :eek:

You're wife can't see any 3D effects because it requires "stereoscopic" vision (I believe is the term) to get the 3D effect. Basically, it has to do w/both being able to see two spectrums of color, as well as depth of field issues.

IIRC, the lenses for the Freddy movie were the polarized ones and The Creature Feature was over the air, some static, on a CRT, at an angle back in the late Seventies.

And yeah, I kept trying to explain that she needed to see through the red and the green in order to experience the effects. I just wonder if we could make a single lens for her single good eye like what BOB is wearing here:

http://i.enewsi.com/g/generated/DVD/Monsters_Vs_Aliens/Bobs_Big_Break__scaled_300.jpg

IIRC, the lenses for the Freddy movie were the polarized onesThey were the red-and-green ones. That was the only Freddy movie I've ever seen in a theater, so I remember it well. It was also the first 3D movie I ever saw in a conventional movie theater (meaning, other than in theme parks).

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I wonder how easy it would be to make a pair ?

There seems to be confusion here about wheat 3D is and how it works.

First of all, we see 3D because our eyes view the world from slightly different angles. Our brains take the two images and decode them into a 3D image. Which means that if you are blind in one eye, you can not see 3D. Period. You don't even see the real world in 3D. Of course, you get a sense of depth based on where your eye is focused and from the way objects shift against each other as you move about. In other words, just like the illusion of depth is created in conventional 2D movies.

All 3D movies use essentially the same technique. Two images taken from slightly different positions are projected on the screen with each lens of the glasses filtering out one of the images. Most theaters use polarized light to do this. It has the disadvantage of dimming the image, but it doesn't effect the color. You can see how this works by looking at your companion while you're both wearing your 3D glasses and closing one eye, then the other. One lens will turn black, then the other.

The red/green (or red/blue) system works by tinting one image red, the other blue/green/cyan. Through one lens you'll see and red and black image, the other a blue and black image. This method has the advantage of working with standard TV, standard, unmodified movie projectors, and even comic books, but it also causes serious color distortion. Since the images are filtered before they even reach your eyes, color-blindness should have no effect unless you see one of the colors as black instead of shades of gray.

Interesting! Thanks for clarifying, as I did not know that. When I joined the USAF, we had to take a color blindness test and I failed because I couldn't see two of the numbers/letters out of 10 images. I was told it was due to me apparently being partly colorblind. Thus, where my thinking came from.

I guess I should read up on it more, neh? Self-education is a wondorous thing. :)

My brother-in-law has a glass eye. When I asked whether he wanted to come with us to see "Up" in 3-D, he replied; "Why?" :p

"[F]inally got to expeirence 3-D!"

That's nuttin! I'm already experiencing things in 4-D! :tongue:

Seriously, you're making me want to try some of those movies.

Griff:

I'm partially color-blind--in one eye! It's got to be due to a deficiency of cones in one eye. I can look at something, close one eye and see more color through the other one or vice versa.

There's not a huge difference but it's definitely there. I always passed the military color blind tests with flying colors so it's never affected me. It's kind of a pain to get the right shade of color sometimes, however :D