Ruins of St Augustine Church in Goa India

Stereoscopic 3D movies, or simply – 3D movies have now become a household name once again. There is the general feeling that this time around 3D movies will be here to stay and overcome it’s previous label as a fad.

Now that some of the biggest Hollywood studios and movie makers have jumped on the stereo 3d movie making bandwagon, there will be an explosion of locations being shot in 3D. Equipment to film in 3D is also receiving special attention, with top Cinematic equipment manufacturers such as Sony, Red (cameras) and other manufacturers announcing dedicated hardware for capture of our three dimensional world.

However, what many Hollywood film makers and television documentary makers may not know, is that 3D movie making, was and still is being made by a very different genre of “cinematographers”. These 3D film makers would more likely be known to us as archeologists, architects, historians and scientists. They use stereoscopic 3D capture of locations, historic buildings and monuments to use in their work – The restoration and preservation of Historic Architecture.

The same 3D that gives us the “wow” effect when we watch things pop out of cinema screens at us, or the deep sense of immersion we feel when watching a scene of the ocean or a lake in 3D, is what these non-hollywood filmmakers use, back in their laboratories to extract precise “spatial” cues, distances, measurements, and such data that eventually helps them document and re-construct ancient sculptures, monuments and historic architectural masterpieces.

Hollywood and Documentary Filmmakers can help preserve History?

To answer this, let’s take a very brief look at how Stereoscopic 3D documentation …

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