3D glasses

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Those nice folks at The Boston Globe provided me with a 3D view of Blenheim Palace in Woodstock.

I thought I didn’t have any 3D glasses until I remembered those nice folks at DUCA who gave me several cartons of greeting cards last year. Each set of cards is enclosed in a clear plastic sleeve.

You will need:

The cardboard backing from a ruled pad of paper; you collect them for projects just like this, right?

Two white-board erasable markers, one red, one blue.

A pencil, a sharp knife (not shown here!)

And a sheet of clear plastic.

(Next time I do this I’ll skip the steps with the plastic and be a little more selective in my choice of candy after lunch or supper at The Montreal Deli )

If you don’t have a pair of spectacles handy, take your cardboard and pencil to church with you next Sunday and mark the outline on the table that holds the carton of “used glasses”. Or wait until next summer when you dig out your sunglasses.

I have traced the outline of the frame and lenses on the cardboard, also the two arms. Don’t sweat the arms; these 3D glasses are going to be feather-light.

I re-marked the lens outlines with the red and with the blue markers, just to get into the spirit of things.

The holes are cut and I have retained the near-circular lens shapes in cardboard for the next step.

I used the near-circular lens shapes as templates to outline the lenses on the plastic, then filled-in the lenses with color, as shown above.

A rather poor shot (no flash, and I was trembling with excitement) of the frames with the lenses tacked in place with a short strip of adhesive tape.

The arms are hinged with two strips of tape each side. I’m never sure whether Red goes Right or the other way around. My 3D-glasses go both ways!

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