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Transylvania and Violins

November 20, 2005 at 3:08 AM

I just returned from a trip to Transylvania in Romania for the Dracula tour. One of my main goals was to purchase a violin made in the area to be used as my primary acoustic violin. As I was on a tour group, I really didn't have the time to go to a music store. I did find some violins the antique stores sold, but they weren't playable, and were charging a bundle. It was like were gouging the tourist.

Anyway, after returning I searched the internet and found a violin maker (Gliga) from Transylvania and better for me their USA office is in Pasadena, just outside LA. I ended up getting a GAMA Super model, and love it. I'm constantly surprised though, how much more I can hear from this violin rather than my electric. I'm courious to hear what you all think of Gliga violins too.

Oh, if you want to see some pictures from the trip, take a look here:

http://www.3dmation.com/images/stereo_photos/3d_picts_111405/romania_cross/index.htm

Barry

I just purchased a Gliga viola and I love the rich tone that comes from it. I have a mid/uppper range Eastman Strings violin and I bought the Gems viola just to see if I'd like the instrument. When I'm ready to upgrade my viola, I will buy another Gliga!

Betsy

you should be able to make your own glasses to view those pictures. Get some sunglasses and pop one of the lens out. Tape it to the frame 90 from the original position. Plus it will look cool. I saw either Andy Warhol's Frankenstein or maybe it was Young Frankenstein in color 3D. It was astounding. They should do more of that.
I make 3d movies for a living. Our latest is Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon in 3D. It's in IMAX theaters now. As for making your own glasses. I'm not sure what you mean there. The parallel and cross eye are meant to "freeview". Meaning you can fuse the 3D without glasses. Sure if you have them on cards, than parallel cards for a stereopticon works well. The anaglyph versions are for red/blue glasses. If you have these for the "Medium" show, they'll work for that. Anaglyph sucks for ghosting though. My pictures are not good for anaglyph.
In the movie I mentioned the perspective comes from covering the two lenses with polarized material 90 rotated 90 degrees witn respect to each other. It's decoded with glasses made the same way. Of course the images have to be superimposed on each other. It wouldn't really work separate like they are there. I'll look into freeviewing later. Thanks.

What part of the movies are you involved with?

That should read more like:
...polarized material rotated 90 degrees...
aha, you are trying to make it so people can use polarized glasses to see 3D, like in our imax movies. Sorry, but that won't work with photos on an lcd. You've got to project each eye's image through polarized filters also. Each projector the filter 90 degrees out of phase of each other. The images as you say are superimposed on each other on the screen. Then when you wear the polarized lenses, each eye can only see one of the projected images, since the other is out of phase. Your brain though fuses them as 3D.
Oh, I forgot to say, I do visual effects for film. If you want to see my old reel that's at:

http://www.3dmation.com

I'm working on a new one, old one blows!

Can digitized images be polarized? Why or why not? I never thought about that. Much less polarized images on lcd which has its own world of phase relationships.
well, not really, but you can project them with a digital projector through a polorized filter. There are some machines that make lenticular screened laptops, these give you 3d without glasses, which is cool, but it's expensive, and the resolution is only about 1024 x 768.

Then there is shutter glasses, for these, a computer or other controller, blanks out the right eye, so you see with the left eye, then blanks out left eye so you see out the right over and over again. Shutter glasses also halve the resolution as the each eye uses every other horizontal line of the frame. Shutter glasses make me shudder.

I've seen some specialized glasses that show seperate right and left eye streams directly in the eye. These are awesome, but the resolution is still to low for practical usage. That'll come though, it'll be great.