3D glasses at home

Just want to stipulate that home 3D glasses will not help you enjoy the 3D image in the IMAX format - the technology is not the one. Red-blue anaglyphic (anaglyph) glasses allow to "deceive" the brain and create the illusion of three-dimensionality of the image due to color coding.

In 3D glasses instead of lenses inserted special filters, usually red for the left eye and blue orblue for the right. If you look through such glasses on an anaglyphic image (picture or film), it will seem voluminous. The lack of anaglyph - incomplete color rendition and possible discomfort during viewing and after removing the glasses.

Make 3D glasses at home is quite simple: you will need to do this in any available way color two lenses in CMY colors (cyan, magenta, yellow - blue-green, magenta,yellow). Blue-green - for the right lens, red (a mixture of yellow and magenta) - for the left. We will show you several ways to quickly and easily make 3D glasses at home.

To make 3D glasses with your own hands, you will need eyeglass frame, lens material (light filters) and lens coloring tools. You can take a frame from cheap old plastic glasses or just make it from a thick cardboard.

For the manufacture of light filters is best suited thick transparent film. We advise you to take a film for printing oninkjet printer - it has a gelatin layer that can absorb ink. But, in principle, any dense film will do. Using sharp small scissors, cut out two neat ovals from the film - the future lenses of your 3D glasses (for a film with a gelatinous layer, they will need four). If you take as a basis old plastic glasses, cut out the light filters according to the shape of the lenses of these glasses.

Then you need to color filters in red and blue. It's easiest to use for this alcohol marker for discs - it is not washed off or washed. One film is evenly colored with a red marker, the second - in blue. To achieve uniformity, you can get an alcohol rod from the marker and squeeze it onto the film. Before you insert the lens into the glasses, wait until the surface dries. The alcohol must completely evaporate.

A film for the printer with a gelatin layer can be dyed with old color cartridge. To do this, you will need an old inkjet cartridge, three ink bottles, three disposable syringes and glass plates.

First you need to open the cartridge and get it out ofit is impregnated with foam ink sponge. To "squeeze" the ink out of the sponges, put them into the syringes and press the plunger, squeezing the ink into the bubbles. Three ink colors will be needed: blue-green (cyan), yellow (yellow) and magenta (magenta).

To get a red color, you need an equalproportions mix yellow and magenta ink. The resulting red ink is poured onto a glass plate and put the cut lens on it with gelatin down, so that the ink is absorbed into the gelatin in an even layer. Then take the second piece of film, do the same procedure with it and attach the pieces of gelatin layer to each other so that they glue together. In the same way, a blue-green light filter is made. After a few days, the lenses will dry, and they can be inserted into the frame.

Finished light filters can be inserted into a finished plastic frame or glued in homemade cardboard. A red light filter is for the left eye, blue is for the right eye. How to check if you have made 3D glasses at home? Just put them on and look at the stereo image. Ready anaglyphic images can be downloaded on the Internet or done by yourself with the help of special programs.