Lenticular Printing
January 12, 2010 by John38
What is a Lenticular? Few people are familiar with the term. Lenticulars offer a great way to bring images to life. It is a cutting edge technology that is giving companies new ways to promote themselves and their products.
Using lenticular printing technologies, a whole range of 3D graphic effects can be applied to printed images for 3 d lenticular printing. While 3D graphics were once a concept limited to movie theatres, with specialised printing methods almost any image or surface can had added depth and motion applied.
3D lenticular printing means pertaining to lenses, a lenticule is actually a kind of lens that allows a range of images to be seen by the naked eye at one time. A Lenticular lens is made up of two separate components. The first is a printed image, or a series of printed images. The second is the lens, which feels like a kind of grooved Plexiglas. By looking at the image through the lens, we are able to see more than one image at a time. The contour of the lens allows the eye to concentrate on different aspects of the picture. The image is printed in strips, rather than a whole image in one piece, which allows the 3D effect to emerge.
There are many applications of 3d lenticular printing graphics. A flip image or flip animation is one of the most popular forms of lenticular images. In this instance two images are combined and then covered with a lens. When the finished product is moved the two images interchange.
A Multi flip animation works in a similar way except that three or more different images are combined. This can be used to achieve many effects; it could be a series of movements, a zoom in on an image or a dramatic change or morph in a single scene.
A 3D lenticular effect can also be achieved through using lenticular graphics. A sense of depth can be given to any picture, making it realistic and eye catching. All the elements of a scene are layered together to give the illusion of space and movement.
Animation and high definition lenticular allows between five and fifteen seconds of imagery to be contained in a postcard sized bit of paper. Can you imaging a direct mail out flyer that contains a video in high definition quality? What a great way to deliver a message to your audience.
This technology is no longer something out of reach to companies looking for creative advertising solutions. It is ready and available for a wide array of uses. Direct mail outs, posters and promotional materials are only the beginning
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You'll find links to various possible suppliers there.
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Lenticular design or designing lenticulars used to be just mickey and mini prizes from a cracker jack box. Today lenticulars are used for fun… it’s a toy. POP displays, give aways, and collectibles
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This is a very sad clip! My eyes watered!! Thank you for sharing it
Altocúmuls lenticulars d'ahir a la Cerdanya http://tweetphoto.com/23084732
Animation non chargée. Vous devez peut-être installer le player Flash pour voir cette animation.
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This is famous artist Julian Opie’s Work.
most macs come with video editing software which usually has things like this built in. do u have imovie?
haha i totally guessed that name but im sure it exists.
Edit: holy crap it does
http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Probably because it was Street Fighter who started the Beat-em-up genre. It's fame is still alive as it is was before. I, personally, don't like street fighter games nowadays but I can say that Street Fighter still has its charms.
Cubes are the easiest thing to make in 3D pretty much so you will have no problem there. You will just need to learn how to set up the 3D and then get your textures for the blocks in the Minecraft Texture file assuming you have the default texture pack, otherwise you will have to open the jar file to get to it.
Google Maps puts WebGL 3D graphics to use -