I think we are not talking about the same thing. The Matrix thing was done
with blue screen and a motionless (if I recall properly) background with a
few rendered bullet tracks. The commercial I am talking about froze a moving
background (leaves and birds in the air) then did a 360 around it's
circumference. If there had been cameras in the shot they were hidden quite
well. The trick was to show a 360 sweep around a background all in one
instance. Much different than doing a 360 on one object.

The Matrix things had a completely different look. I think the couple in the
commercial were blue screen and were set into a partially rendered setting,
but I could be wrong... I'll look into it.


Jon A. Cruz <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in message
news:381B0536.F73A37DB@geocities.com...
> Bill DeWitt wrote:
>
> > omniVERSE <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
> > news:381abf2c@news.povray.org...
> > > http://www.photomodeler.com/Lite
> > >
> > > This is a freeware version of PhotoModeler that can be used to plot
out
> > > points onto multiple photos or drawings and create 3D models.  Might
be
> > what
> > > you were thinking of.
> >
> >     I mean to say that I believe that thisis the way that some recent
> > commercials have done their effect. I forget the advertiser (which is a
> > comment on today's advertizing methods) but the effect was that two
young
> > lovers meet in a plaze or something and time stands still. The camera
> > rotates around them -while they are still moving- but the rest of the
> > action, the falling leaves, the people in the background, are all frozen
in
> > time. Quite cool and without detailed photogrammery I cannot think of a
way
> > to do it.
>
> That one's done a little differently. They have a series of high-speed
> still-frame cameras that get triggered sequentially at a very high rate.
This
> was also used for the "bullet-time" in the Matrix. By having the cameras
placed
> in a cemi-circle around the subjects and firing them all at the same time,
you
> have that one moment recorded from all angles, and can then play them
back.
>
> http://www.whatisthematrix.com/cmp/sfx-bullet_frames.html
>
> --
> "My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
> But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.
>
>
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