How to use glow paint to work with 3D glasses?

Antranik · Post by **Antranik** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:37 pm

At the 2009 LA decompression, at the very end of the park, there was an
art installation that was just a large room whose walls and ceiling
were made of black fabric draped over a simple frame to create a black
room with a door to enter in and out of.

At the entrance someone hands you 3D glasses. Put them on, enter and
there's colorful glow paint everywhere lit only by black lights
(otherwise it would be pitch dark) and the glowing paint pops out ahead
of the other colors and looks pretty awesome.

From what I remember only the orange color was the one that would "pop out" with the 3d effect but there could've been others.

If i wanted to replicate this in my closet for fun, do you guys know
what *kind* of paint that would require me to purchase? And are there
specific 3d glasses I should look into? Anyone have experience or know who built that room? Thanks!

Token · Post by **Token** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:41 pm

Why not contact the LA Decom folks and have them introduce you to the deviants that created the gizmo?

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:28 pm

I don't know how the effect works, but it does work on other colors. At the spook house, we used UV paint to great effect.

Experiment!

some seeing eye · Post by **some seeing eye** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:52 pm

With inexpensive red-blue or red-cyan glasses, with red on the left, red, orange, purple are seen by the left eye and blue and green by the right. So an object, doubled, and shaded blue-green on the right and red on the left will come toward you and the reverse will recede. The wider the offset between images, the greater the percieved depth.

So you just need paint paired images with paint that fluoresces in those color families.

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:20 pm

If they were clear glasses, it may have used this technology;

http://www.chromatek.com/

I first saw this tech at a SCI concert in 2001. I was awed because I am partially blind in one eye, and typical 3d doesn't work for me (I have almost no depth perception). This tech did work, and I was amazed to see 3d again.

I was trying to do this for 2007 for the space year, but ran out of time/money. From my experiments, flourescent colors with black lights work best (the lights as close to behind the viewers as possible). The viewing area should be as dark as possible, and the background as flat black (non reflecting) as possible.

Talynt · Post by **Talynt** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:28 am

The guy who owns the altervision lounge (what was at the decomp) is a friend of mine. I'll ask him what they did, but from what I remember the biggest problem are the glasses. They're relatively expensive and have the tendency to wander off more often than not. They took it to burning man once or twice but always lost TONS of money replacing the (hundreds of pairs) of glasses

CLARKcon · Post by **CLARKcon** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:20 pm

Snap! I saw something similiar at work---Made by Crayola (go figure

!) has clear viewing glasses and like 4 markers. When colored, the glasses "diffuse" the different pigments, giving a 3-D effect. Seems like they would be good only in bright light & don't know if there is an industrial size/application. (SIDENOTE: How is it that the kids get all the cool art stuff nowadays

We just got crayons & pencils when I was young-- now they have Paint sprayers, glow chalk, spinning light-up pens, etc...CrAzY

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