Freitag, 30. Juli 2010

How to allow fullscreen mode for webpages on iPad

If you want to design your webpage to use the full screen of the iPad, please consider this blog entry.

Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010

Just added the iPad kit to instructables.com

Here is the PDF.

Here is the Instructable page :

Full color 3-D viewing stand for iPad - More DIY How To Projects

Intro video for the openKMQ kit for iPad (german)


There's a blog report with video about the openKMQ kit for iPad (sorry folks, german only).
(Source: Danniil Matzkuhn / tblt.de)
Straight to the YouTube 2D video.

Dienstag, 27. Juli 2010

New tutorial how to do S3D with Blender

Berlin based Sebastian Schneider did a very welcome online tutorial Stereoscopic Rendering in Blender. I hope to get him on the openKMQ bandwagon soon ;-)

Please create content like this ...

These renderings are done with VRay/3Dmax by a Berlin based artist.


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Inspirational S3D work by 3D viz pro Bertrand Benoit, one of the early adopters of openKMQ.
Read the recent interview with the artist.

Montag, 26. Juli 2010

New german blog

With the help of Christian Henkel, the openKMQ project now also has a german blog page.
We will try to keep both communities informed simulationsly.

Sonntag, 25. Juli 2010

New Logo and groups in twitter facebook and flickr

Thanks to PR pro Christian Henkel, openKMQ now has a logo and can be joined, liked and listened to via the above social networks.
Come and join in.

Freitag, 23. Juli 2010

First KMQ book since 1983


A friend of mine allowed me to publish a nice 3-D documentation of a railway bridge beeing replaced. I wrote a program called "StereoBookMaker" to solve this task.
Using SBM you can create your own 3-D books/cards/iPad-Galleries using many different presentation methods. Obviously my favorite 3-D viewing method still is KMQ(over/under), but others are supported as well - excluding all color distorting methods (no Anglyphs!!!)

Here you can preview and order the books : epubli

Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2010

Why does the new "any LCD" kit have 5 holes ?

An early adopter asked me about the 4 small extra holes in the laser cut acrylic frame of the new kit. Yeah - I forgot to mention that this design is also meant to be mounted on strings infront of over/under paintings and big 3-D prints inkjetted to canvas. Remember - the bigger the picture pair, the bigger the sweet spot distance to view from with the KMQ viewer.
As a local printing service in Berlin/Germany for fine art digital canvas printing I recommend Whitewall.
I'm still looking for digital artists and stereo photographers to exhibit their work in this all new form.

Dienstag, 20. Juli 2010

I recommend a bag for the new "iPad 3-D" stand

After traveling to amsterdam for the BLENDER Foundation sponsor/team screening of their new short DURIAN/Sintel I realized that I need a proper and good looking bag for my 3-D stand. And it should have space for my accessories and the iPad as well.

I went to a local shop for designers and sculptors and found this:





Manufacturer: RUMOLD
EAN-No 012108155700

I bought it for 17,90 EUR in Berlin at modulor

Samstag, 17. Juli 2010

openKMQ Kit for any 2D LCD screens

Again: You can either download the laser cutting vector files or order a precut kit from my website.





openKMQ proudly presents : iPad 3-D

Okay, anyone with a KMQ prism viewer can use any LCD in portrait mode to view full color 3-D, but as the viewing distance (the sweet spot) is important, I decided to design a comfortable stand for my Apple iPad. Like all other kits it's laser cut, but it's the first kit made of HDF (high density wood fibre) . Visit my website for more pictures and to download the vector files.
You may also order a precut kit, if you don't know a laser cutting service nearby.
On the other hand, if you know one, feel free to become a kit provider yourself.
I've prepared some 3-D movies to watch on this baby. The trailers for Avatar/Shrek4/Tangled were downloaded from 3D Vision Blog and I used the compositing app eyeon FUSION to produce the over/under layout (right on top).