September 12
- Introductions and course overview
- Familiarization with “Labnet”, the 3D Computer Animation Labs intranet, and instructions on how to access the course web page
- Discussion of general principles of monocular and binocular vision
- View random dot stereogram binocular perception test image
- View sample images from Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D W3
- View Blu-ray of the Shinterra short film “27 Years Later”
- View excerpts from the Ken Jacobs/John Zorn Nervous Magic Lantern performance DVD of “Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise”
September 19
- Lecture and Demonstration: “The Eye is Not a Camera”: an overview of theories on the physiology and psychology of visual perception
- Lecture and Demonstration: “Aspects of Monoscopic and Stereoscopic DepthCues”, including parallax, accommodation, convergence, and aerial perspective
- Working with single camera temporal displacement stereography (Cha-Cha)
- Introduction to the GoPro 3D Hero camera system
- View a set of stereoscopic images using several forms of stereoscope
- Pulfrich effect temporal displacement stereography
- Viewing of my 3D CG Pulfrich effect video, “1921 > 1989”
- Viewing of Jim Ellis’s Pulfrich effect video, “Scroggins Beach”
September 26
- Lecture and Demonstration: “Contributions of Interocular Distance in Hyperstereoand Hypostereo Imaging in the Perception of a Sense of Scale”
- Guest presentation by filmmaker Amy Halpern who will discuss her work with real-time stereoscopic shadow projection in Ken Jacobs’ New York Apparition Theater
- Interactive experiments with real-time anaglyphic and polarized shadow projection
October 3
- Lecture: “Displays and Eyewear for Time-multiplexed Displays” (StereoGraphics, RealD, Dolby/Infitec, compared to emerging proprietary consumer stereoscopic television and Blu-ray disc technologies)
- Viewing of Vibeke Sorensen’s stereoscopic film “Maya” in monoscopic form followed by a viewing in the artist’s originally intended stereoscopic form
- Discussion of Sorensen’s use of stereopsis in the creation of ambiguous spaces
October 10
- Indigenous Peoples Day
October 17
- Lecture: “Clement Greenberg’s Postulation of Medium Specificity and the Primacy of Flatness”.
- Viewing of Salvador Dali’s stereoscopic work
- Viewing of Oskar Fischinger’s stereoscopic work
- Viewing of Ed Emshwiller’s stereoscopic light drawing photographs
- In-class experiments with stereoscopic light drawing
October 24
- Lecture: “Absolute Animation and Immersive VR”
- Lecture: “Issues in Head Mounted Display stereoscopy”
- Interactive 3D drawing with the PhaseSpace Impulse mocap system
October 31
- Halloween field trip to 3ality Technica
November 7
- Lecture: “Stereoscopic Film Grammar”, continuity, transitions, and depth scripts.
- Demonstration of stereoscopic post production techniques such as Horizontal Image Translation, Floating Stereoscopic Windows, Depth Grading, Color Grading, and Ghost Busting
- Begin work on individual and/or group projects
November 14
- Lecture and Demonstration: “Setting up a 3D CG stereo camera in Maya”
- Continue work on projects
November 21
- Guest presentation by stereoscopic expert, artist, and educator, Perry Hoberman
- Continue work on projects
November 28
- Lecture and Demonstration: “Four Centuries of Mirror Anamorphoses and issues of Monocular versus Binocular Viewing Techniques”
- Previewing of individual and/or group projects for presentation on December 9
December 5
- Exhibition of Class Experiments
December 12
- Final Class
