SANDDE, the world’s first freehand 3D animation system

An interesting bit intelligent software from IMAX and Janro Imaging Labs tries to assign 3d stereoscopic depth information to classic 2D cell animation processes with surprising success.

As you move the Wand, the Sandde system tracks its position and orientation. Sandde then interprets the Wand’s coordinate data to create and display 3D stereoscopic lines that correspond to your real-world movements. And all of this outputs in real-time to any 3D display, so that you can see your work in 3D as you draw it.

via SANDDE, the world’s first freehand 3D animation system.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .