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The present invention relates to a method for producing stereoscopic images and a device for implementing this method, together with a screen and an image data storage medium to be used in such a method.
Many techniques have been developed to produce images in three dimensions. Methods requiring the wearing of spectacles make it possible to transmit to each eye of the observer the image intended for it. Mention may be made, for example, of anaglyphs, polarised spectacles and liquid crystal spectacles. In projection booths equipped for the use of such methods, all the viewers, whatever their position, see the object at the same angle. It is still impossible to see either side of the filmed object by moving in front of the screen.
A known system with a lens grating enables the viewer to perceive the stereoscopic effect without wearing spectacles or without using a stereoscopic device. Although the grating avoids the need to wear spectacles, it does not lack other disadvantages. Firstly, it must be perfectly adjusted as regards the images formed behind the lens faces, and the viewer must hardly move during observation or else the image and the stereoscopic effect may no longer be seen. The field of view is limited.
Holography makes it possible to reconstruct the view of a volume perfectly but requires the use of coherent light. Moreover, the volume of the objects being shot is limited. Another drawback of this method lies in the fact that it is impossible to project a hologram.
Other methods, such as the 3D Volumetric Display System (H-P PENEL, L'ère de la nouvelle Dimension, Science et Vie, 928, 1995, pp. 68-72) and that described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,111,313, enable animated stereoscopic images to be projected on to a screen but require the use of a coherent light source, and the cylindrical shape of the screen limits the size of the images obtained. Moreover, the deviation of the light rays is achieved by the movement of certain mechanical components, which requires a sophisticated electronic control system.
The aim of the present invention is to avoid the disadvantages of the methods and devices of the prior art, and to devise an improved method enabling complete stereoscopic images to be obtained, with horizontal parallax, from objects of any dimensions, particularly in such a way that the viewer is able to move while perceiving the stereoscopic nature of the image produced.
To solve these problems, according to the invention, a method is used for producing stereoscopic images with horizontal parallax comprising:
a first dispersion by diffraction of electromagnetic rays emitted by an object,
the shooting of the object using at least one lens capable of collecting at least part of the said dispersed electromagnetic rays,
a projection of the shot through a screen facility, and
a second dispersion and a scattering, by the screen facility, of electromagnetic rays emitted during the projection, with the formation of stereoscopic images of the object,
the first and second dispersions producing a lateral deviation of corresponding emitted rays. The invention thus exploits the spectral composition of the sources of radiation and uses the unlimited number of wavelengths contained in a spectral range to obtain as many viewing angles of the same object as there are wavelengths. The method according to the invention makes it possible to produce complete stereoscopic images with horizontal parallax and images that may be coloured. It should be noted that the deviation of light rays through optical components is obtained without movement of the said components. It is unnecessary to use either a sophisticated electronic control system or a coherent light source. The invention allows the shooting of animated objects of unlimited size and under ordinary light. The projection on to a screen, even of large dimensions, makes it possible to change at will the size of the stereoscopic image to be produced.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the second dispersion comprises a lateral deviation of the projected rays in the same direction as, or in the opposite direction to, the lateral deviation of the first dispersion. The method according to the invention thus makes it possible to produce an orthoscopic or pseudoscopic stereoscopic image.
According to another embodiment of the invention, the aforesaid projection is carried out by the aforesaid lens. The method thus allows the direct projection, through a screen, of a stereoscopic image of the object to be viewed.
According to an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the method comprises the reception of image data, obtained during the shooting, on at least one data storage medium, allowing the said projection to be performed later. This reception may, for example, be the sensitisation of a silver-based photosensitive medium permitting projection, or else a recording on a storage medium that may, for example, be electronic. In the latter case, it is generally possible to convert the data into digital form: the main advantage conferred by the digital form lies in the data processing, for example to create special effects or synthetic images.
According to yet another embodiment of the invention, the method comprises an adjustment of the spatial separation between the stereoscopic image and the screen facility by inserting in the various steps of the method at least one additional dispersion of rays by diffraction, with additional lateral deviation. The volume of the image may thus be displaced in the forward-backward direction with respect to the screen.
Details and special features of embodiments of the method according to the invention are indicated in the appended claims 1 to 15.
The invention also relates to a device for producing stereoscopic images.
According to one embodiment, this device comprises:
a first diffraction grating providing for a first dispersion of electromagnetic rays emitted by the object with lateral deviation of the said rays,
a lens capable of collecting at least a part of the dispersed electromagnetic rays, and
a screen facility through which the electromagnetic rays coming from the lens undergo a second dispersion with lateral deviation and scattering. Such a device enables the shooting and projection of the stereoscopic image to be performed simultaneously.
According to another embodiment, the device according to the invention comprises:
a first diffraction grating providing for a first dispersion of electromagnetic rays emitted by the object with lateral deviation of the said rays,
at least one lens capable of collecting at least a part of the dispersed electromagnetic rays,
at least one medium for storing image data capable of receiving the electromagnetic rays collected by the lens or lenses, and later of making possible a projection, through at least one projection lens, of image data transmitted by these collected electromagnetic rays, and
a screen facility through which the electromagnetic rays coming from the projection lens or lenses undergo a second dispersion with lateral deviation and scattering. Such a device makes possible the reception of image data on one or more storage media and the subsequent projection on to the screen of the stereoscopic image obtained by the method according to the invention.
Details and special features of embodiments of the device according to the invention are indicated in claims 16 to 27.
The invention also relates to a screen and a storage medium for image data to be used in the method according to the invention.
Other details of the invention will emerge from the description given below, with reference to the appended drawings which illustrate non-limiting examples of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a first application of the present invention, making it possible to produce a stereoscopic image without an image data storage medium.
FIGS. 2a and 2 b are lateral elevations in perspective of the lens and two variants of the screen used in the application illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIGS. 3 and 4 are perspective views of two optical systems for producing a holographic screen according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a plan view of a primary shooting with an image data storage system according to the invention.
FIG. 6 is a plan view of a primary projection with the image data storage system of FIG. 5.
FIGS. 7a, 7 b, 8 a and 8 b are cross-sectional views of variants of the image data storage system used in this invention during the shooting.
FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view of a variant of the image data storage system during projection.
FIGS. 10a, 10 b and 10 c are plan views of shootings or projections, secondary in 10 a and 10 c, primary in 10 c.
FIG. 11 is a plan view of a secondary shooting with an image data storage system according to the invention.
FIG. 12 is a plan view of a primary projection following the secondary shooting shown in FIG. 11.
FIG. 13 is a plan view of a primary shooting with two image data storage systems according to the invention and of the primary projection produced with these storage systems.
FIG. 14 is a plan view of a secondary shooting and projection with two storage media according to the invention.
FIG. 15 is a plan view of a primary projection with two storage media following the secondary shooting shown in FIG. 14.
FIG. 16 is a plan view of the operating of transferring the constitutive elements of the image from one storage medium according to the invention to another one.
FIG. 17 is a plan view of a primary projection with two storage media according to the invention, after transfer.
FIG. 18 is a plan view of a primary projection with three storage media according to the invention, after transfer and when a secondary shooting has been carried out.
In the various drawings, identical or analogous elements are indicated by the same reference numbers. It should be understood that these drawings are schematic, that they are not drawn to scale, and that the elements are frequently shown widely separated from each other to allow the optical phenomena to be more clearly understood.
The invention applies to electromagnetic rays generally, even if the examples proposed are located in the visible range of the spectrum.
According to the invention as illustrated in FIG. 1, a shot of an object A is obtained through at least one diffraction grating 11 which performs the function of dispersion around parallel dispersion axes, in other words the electromagnetic rays are diverted laterally, as a function of the wavelength.
It must be appreciated that, according to the invention, all the optical elements and functions of the invention are oriented in relation to the vertical direction of the steroscopic image that is to be obtained. The dispersion and scattering functions are oriented in relation to the viewer's binocular vision.
The grating 11 is preferably made up of parallel straight lines/fringes that are equidistant and arranged parallel to the said dispersion axes. Any other laterally deviating grating is suitable for the invention, but if the lines/fringes are disposed in a way different from that described, the stereoscopic image obtained will reveal some deformation. Diffraction gratings of this kind are well known in the art and are easily available; they will therefore not be described in more detail. In the context of this invention, one could for example use thick diffraction gratings (in volume terms), which have better diffraction performance. The zero-order beam of gratings of this kind is highly attenuated (according to BRAGG's law of diffraction).
Thanks to the deviation obtained as a function of the wavelength (dispersion), shooting enables an unlimited number of points of view of object A to be obtained, with one point of view per wavelength, building up in this way a composite image consisting of as many constituent elements as there are wavelengths and offering a vast number of perspectives.
The difference in the viewing angle between two wavelengths is to an increasing extent a function of the distance between the lens 12 and the grating 11 referred to as the "primary" and of the dispersion obtained by the said grating.
Each point on the object projects its own succession of homologous points, resulting from the spectral composition of the emitted rays.
FIG. 1 shows two viewing angles 16 and 17 for a point on object A. In the device illustrated in this figure, the elements forming the image that is obtained are directly projected by the shooting lens 12 on to a screen 13 through which a viewer 14 or 15 may look at the stereoscopic image A′ or A″ produced. The lens 12 thus also serves here as the projection lens.
According to the invention, the screen 13 performs both a dispersion function and a scattering function 23.
As can be seen from FIG. 1, it is possible to choose a screen 13 whose dispersion produces a lateral deviation in the same direction as the dispersion produced by the grating 11, and an orthoscopic stereoscopic image A′ is then obtained in this case. When the deviation by the screen 13 takes place in the opposite direction, a pseudoscopic stereoscopic image A″ is obtained in this case.
The orientation of the optical components used, 11, 12 and 13, may be selected, since they can normally be arranged to be capable of pivoting, according to the arrows 18, about rotation axes perpendicular to the plane of the drawing in FIG. 1.
The scattering, illustrated in FIGS. 2a and 2 b, occurs at each point of the screen and makes it possible to see the stereoscopic image when the viewer moves vertically.
The dispersion splits the light into a spectrum. Consequently, whatever its position, the eye receives, for each point of the screen, only one wavelength coming from a projection light source. By changing the viewing angle horizontally, the points of the stereoscopic image obtained from this source pass successively through all the colours of the spectrum.
The degree of stereoscopy in the image obtained on the screen 13 is a decreasing function of the dispersion by the said screen. It is therefore possible to increase or decrease the parallax at will depending on the dispersive power chosen.
According to a variant of the embodiment of the screen in conformity with the invention, illustrated in FIG. 2a, the following are placed in the optical path of the projection: on the one hand, a grating 19 performing a function of dispersion about parallel dispersion axes with lateral deviation, such as that for example required for shooting, and, on the other hand, a scattering component 20 performing a function of scattering, oriented along a direction perpendicular to the orientation of the dispersion. The respective positions of the grating 19 and the scattering component 20 are chosen according to the focusing to be achieved, and these elements can therefore be moved with respect to each other in an adjustable way. This scattering of the transmitted rays is obtained, for example, by a lineal scatterer, i.e. one consisting of parallel straight grooves oriented in a direction perpendicular to the dispersion axes of the grating 19, which is known in the art and which will therefore not be described in more detail (see for example, G SAXBY, Hologrammes, Masson, 1984, p. 129). In this variant, the dispersion and the scattering are produced successively.
According to another variant of the embodiment of the screen, a transmitted-light hologram 34 is used, which provides for the two functions simultaneously. This holographic optical element (HOE) forms the screen represented in FIG. 2B.
The hologram of the invention is produced according to holographic principles well known to one skilled in the art. The object beam and reference beam are oriented with respect to the vertical direction of the hologram to be produced. The reference beam 35 (see FIGS. 3 and 4) of the hologram 34 is collimated and forms with the object beam 33 a horizontal angle (horizontal angular deviation). The object beam is obtained by placing a luminous vertical line 31 at a distance equal to the focal length from a lens producing collimation in the horizontal direction (a cylindrical convergent lens with vertical axis) 32 (FIG. 3) or from a mirror producing collimation in the horizontal direction (parabolic mirror convergent in the horizontal direction) 42 (FIG. 4).
The production of a hologram of a luminous line to obtain the scattering function in the vertical direction at the reconstruction is described in the patent U.S. Pat. No. 5,111,313, although the form of the hologram is different and the reference beam is oriented differently in this document. According to the invention, in fact, the hologram 34 is produced on a flat surface (see FIGS. 3 and 4). The hologram according to the invention produces either wholly or partly an image of a vertical line when there is a horizontal angle between the reconstruction beam and the image beam. As described in the aforesaid U.S. patent, the luminous line is an illuminated linear object or a luminous line produced on a scattering surface. The vertical scattering of the screen depends on the length of the luminous line. Its width must be as small as possible to avoid horizontal scattering. At the reconstruction, the hologram is that of a luminous line located at infinity.
Each point on the holographic screen according to the present invention therefore produces, for each wavelength, the image of a luminous line. As soon as the hologram is produced, copies of it may easily be obtained by known techniques.
Because of its function of producing lateral dispersion, the screen acts like a complex lens which deflects each ray by an amount depending on the wavelength and, by focusing the rays or making them diverge, reconstructs each point of the stereoscopic image, the information from which is transmitted from a line of this screen.
According to another device of the invention, the elements forming the image are received on an image data storage medium. For example, they are stored on a photosensitive medium 53 (see FIG. 5) and they are then projected (FIG. 6) from the medium 53 on to the screen 13.
FIG. 6 represents only the points A′ and A″ of the stereoscopic image.
According to the invention, the medium 53 is acted on separately by each constitutive element of the image, and hence by each wavelength, which cannot be achieved with existing photosensitive media. Such media are not capable of carrying out a selection of the various radiations as required by the storage medium in the invention.
The reception of the information on the storage medium requires the capability of treating each wavelength separately, using a storage medium allowing projection by dividing the image into portions whose number is chosen in terms of the desired definition of the stereoscopic image and by sensitising the storage medium at different places for each wavelength in each portion of the image, forming a spectrogram of it. Each spectrogram is thus formed by as many elementary images as the spectrogram comprises wavelengths, with one elementary image per wavelength: the storage medium performs a spectral analysis.
To form the elementary images, at least two functions are performed upstream from the photosensitive layer 76 (see FIGS. 7a, 7 b, 8 a and 8 b): a function of dispersion and a function of focusing the electromagnetic rays 71 projected, for example, to the back of the lightproof casing 54 of the image recording equipment 55 represented schematically by broken lines in FIG. 5.
Four variants of the storage medium according to the invention are illustrated here as non-limiting examples. According to a first variant, the image storage medium 53 comprises, per image portion, a cylindrical convergent refracting lens 79 which is combined, upstream or downstream from it, with a grating 72 performing the function of dispersion with lateral deflection of rays about parallel dispersion axes. The lens 79 has an axis parallel to these dispersion axes and hence the functions of convergence and dispersion have the same orientation. The photosensitive layer 76 is placed downstream so as to focus the rays to form elementary images on it. The grating 72 used may be similar to that 11 through which the shooting is carried out. Only two or three elementary images are represented (73, 74 and 75).
According to another variant of the storage medium according to the invention, illustrated in FIG. 7b, a convergent diffracting lens 77, placed upstream from the photosensitive layer, provides the two functions. This lens is a diffraction grating producing dispersion, to the same side, about parallel dispersion axes while focusing the rays in the direction perpendicular to these dispersion axes. Holography makes it possible to produce this type of lens easily. An example of how such a lens is produced may be obtained from the assembly illustrated in FIG. 91, p. 164 of the book "Hologrammes" by Graham Saxby, Masson, 1984, where the two beams have also been collimated in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the drawing in this figure. To support this lens 77, a transparent layer 78 is placed between it and the photosensitive layer 76.
According to two other variants of the invention (FIGS. 8a and 8 b), a prism 81 is added in each portion of the storage medium. This performs two functions: a function of dispersion on the side opposite the dispersion with lateral deviation described in the first two variants, in order that the downstream deviation may attenuate or rectify the upstream deviation.
This provides a greater capacity for deviation by diffraction. Moreover, refraction by the prism 81 deviates short wavelengths more strongly and this additional dispersion increases the separation of the elementary images 82 and 83. This greater separation improves the quality of the parallax obtained. The prism also performs a function of reflection 85 of rays of zero order whose angle of incidence on the downstream face of the prism is greater than the critical angle of total reflection. A ray 85, shown in FIG. 8a, is undergoing this reflection. The three optical components, the grating 72, the lens 79 and the prism 81 are arranged from upstream to downstream depending on the desired order. The prism 81 must be downstream from the diffraction grating 72 in the case of FIG. 8a, and from the diffracting lens 77 in the case of FIG. 8b, in order that the zero order diffracted rays can undergo total reflection. FIG. 8a shows only one example of a prism configuration. It should be noted, at the top of FIG. 8a, that the prism 81 may be placed at a distance from the lens 79 or, as shown at the bottom of the figure, it may be stuck against it or even be manufactured in a single piece with it.
In FIG. 8b, the prism 81 is located downstream from the transparent layer 78 of the storage medium according to the invention illustrated in FIG. 7b.
According to a simple example of an embodiment of these variants, firstly, all the portions of the storage medium extend from one end of it to the other and are parallel to each other and, secondly, the orientation of the functions is the same for all the portions. The first variant then uses a lens grating having convergent cylindrical refracting lenses with parallel axes and a diffraction grating which disperses laterally with respect to the orientation of the said axes (FIG. 7a), while the second variant uses a lens grating with convergent diffracting lenses of identical orientation (FIG. 7b), and the other two variants use in addition a grating of prisms with identical orientations (FIGS. 8a and 8 b).
The photosensitive layer is either silver-based, of the type used in a cinematographic film, or electronic, of the type used in a camcorder CCD sensor, when shooting is involved, or like a liquid crystal matrix in a videoprojector when projection is involved. These photosensitive CCD sensors are used to convert the elementary images into signals, either for recording in a magnetic or digital memory or for sending them directly to the projector.
When a silver-based photosensitive layer is used to obtain animated views, it is either just the layer 76 (or respectively 95) carrying the elementary images that moves, or it is the whole storage medium 53 that moves, during the replacement of an image by the next one, and during the shooting (or respectively the projection).
It should be noted that, when the data are in digital form, they may be processed to create special effects. In this case, the elements forming the images are modified. It is also possible to create elements constituting a synthetic image.
For projection, the image data storage medium and the lens are oriented so as to allow a focusing of the stereoscopic image obtained on the screen. The problem of oblique projection has already been dealt with, for example in the patent U.S. Pat. No. 3,802,769.
Two orientations of the storage medium 53 and 53′ and the shooting lens 12 and 52′ are proposed in FIG. 5. FIG. 6 shows a projection in which the orientation of the storage medium 53, 53′ with respect to the projection lens 62, 62′ is the same as in the shooting illustrated in FIG. 5.
Even though the large inclination of the rays with respect to the axis of the lens during shooting causes aberrations, such as chromatic aberration, these are corrected or reduced on projection where the said inclination is also considerable.
During projection (FIG. 9), the upstream side of the layer 95 now carrying the elementary images is irradiated, in general with an ordinary projection lamp 91. The storage medium 53 then behaves, from each elementary image, like a small projector which splits the beam passing through it and in which the rays are deviated according to their wavelength. According to the principle of the reversal of light paths, rays projected in the opposite direction 93 from that of the shooting follow deviations in the storage medium whose form is identical. In this case, the projection lens 62 is placed in the same position as the shooting lens 12 with respect to the storage medium 53. This arrangement makes it possible to project a beam in which each wavelength carries an item of information characteristic of it: a constitutive element of the image and therefore a viewing angle of points in the stereoscopic image. Each wavelength thus carries a part of the information from each image portion. Each elementary image corresponds to a wavelength, the same as in shooting. All the elementary images reconstitute the spectral range of the shooting in each image portion. Thus, the projection reconstructs the image portions from the spectrograms, and therefore from the elementary images.
In other lateral directions 92 and 94, the "small projector" sends other wavelengths which follow the direction 93, wavelengths corresponding to each elementary image 74. The longer wavelengths 92 are deviated more than the shorter wavelengths 94. These other directions are not those of the projection lens 62 and the rays of the corresponding wavelengths are not projected on to the screen 13.
FIGS. 10a, 10 b and 10 c illustrate both a shooting 106 and a projection 107 depending on whether the rays are propagated towards the right or left in these figures. Represented in FIGS. 10a and 10 c are deviations through two diffraction gratings 11 and 104 (or respectively 104 and 13), thus achieving a "secondary" shooting (or respectively a "secondary" projection). The deviation occurs through the primary grating 11 or the screen 13 and the secondary grating 104, the latter being placed between the primary grating or the screen and the lens. The centre of the shooting lens or the projection lens is represented in these figures by the point 108.
The levels denoted by 101, 102 and 103, known as "reference levels", contain object points or theoretical stereoscopic image points corresponding to homologous points 105 of minimum shift.
Depending on whether the secondary grating 104 deviates in the opposite direction to, or in the same direction as, the primary grating 11 or the screen 13, the said reference level is on the opposite side 101 or on the same side 103 of the primary grating or the screen, with respect to the secondary grating 104. In cases where the secondary grating is not used, this reference level 102 is superimposed on the primary grating 11 or on the screen 13. The use of the secondary grating therefore results in a separation of the reference level from the plane of the primary grating 11 or of the screen 13, a separation that increases with a greater dispersion by the secondary grating 104 and as the distance between the said grating 104 and the primary grating or the screen increases.
It is also possible to envisage another case, not shown in FIG. 10, in which the secondary grating deviates in the opposite direction and the deviations are greater here than through the primary grating or the screen.
The constitutive elements of the image obtained by the primary shooting of a scene are shifted with respect to each other and, in the cases illustrated, horizontally with respect to the vertical direction of the stereoscopic image to be obtained. Each of them is partly superimposed on its neighbour. The use of a secondary grating modifies the shift of homologous points. It is possible to observe the position of homologous points corresponding to the object points A and B during a shooting with secondary grating 104 (a 14, a 16, b 14 and b 16 in FIG. 11) or without the secondary grating (a 11, a 13, b 11 and b 13 in FIG. 5). Compared with a primary shooting, the homologous points corresponding to the object point A are nearer to each other with the use of a secondary grating. For their part, the order of the homologous points b is reversed.
During a primary projection (FIG. 12), the stereoscopic image points obtained from these homologous points (a 14, a 16, b 14 and b 16) resulting from a secondary shooting (FIG. 11) are located at A′ and B′.
When the shift between the homologous points corresponding to a stereoscopic image point is modified in this way, the whole series of homologous points undergoes a similar modification, since the displacements affect each constituent element of the image in its entirety. As a result of this, the constituent elements of the image modified in this way reconstitute a stereoscopic image further in front of or further behind the screen when its position is compared with that obtained without the secondary grating when shooting (for this, see the difference in the position of A′ between FIGS. 12 and 6). It should be noted that the image recording equipment in FIG. 11 is oriented by taking into account the deviation through the secondary grating, in anticipation of the projection (FIG. 12).
In the example of FIG. 12, the screen acts as a converging lens for the stereoscopic image point A′ and as a diverging lens for the stereoscopic image point B′.
When looking directly through the screen at the constitutive elements formed downstream from the lens, it is possible to carry out a shooting with primary projection (FIG. 1) or a shooting with secondary projection. In the latter case, the secondary grating is placed in the optical path between the primary grating and the screen.
According to the invention, it is possible to use several pieces of equipment for shooting or for projection. In this way, it is possible to produce a stereoscopic image in which the viewer can observe more than one wavelength under certain viewing angles. More than one wavelength radiates in these directions. In visible light, the stereoscopic image obtained is coloured. The use of several storage media also enables the number of viewing angles obtained to be increased.
FIG. 13 shows the sensitising at a 12 and at a 23 of two neighbouring storage media 53, 138 by two rays 132 and 134 coming from an object point A, whose orientations are both A-P before deviation by the primary grating 11. The two image points obtained therefore correspond to the same viewing angle P-A.
With one lens, the same storage medium is sensitised with (homologous) image points of different viewing angles.
With several lenses, different storage media are sensitised with image points of the same viewing angle.
The angular difference between the rays 132 and 134, downstream from the primary grating, corresponds to their difference in deviation through the said primary grating.
Still according to FIG. 13, the rays represented correspond to a predetermined wavelength, for example:
rays 131 and 134 represent a wavelength of 700 nm,
rays 132 and 134 that of 550 nm, and
rays 133 and 136 that of 400 nm.
Wavelengths lying between these three values are not represented.
Depending on the direction of propagation of the rays, FIGS. 13 and 14 represent a shooting (139, 141) of A towards the storage media 53, 138, and a projection (130, 142) from the storage media 53, 138 towards the eye of the viewer passing through A′.
In addition to the viewing angles common to two neighbouring storage media 53, 138, the storage medium 138 enables viewing angles to be obtained that are characteristic of it. In comparison with the viewing angles obtained by the storage medium 53, the ray 136 and the rays following an intermediate path between rays 135 and 136 enable many additional viewing angles to be obtained thanks to the storage medium 138. The identical pairs of viewing angles are located between, and include, the direction Q-A and P-A.
During projection (130), the ray 132 projected from the storage medium 53 and the ray 134 projected from the storage medium 138 follow the same direction P′-A′ after deviation by the screen 13. The angular separation between the rays 132 and 134, upstream from the screen 13, is equal to the difference in their deviation through the said screen.
Each pair of identical viewing angles from the same point of the stereoscopic image causes two rays to appear, each characterised by a wavelength. The viewer observes both wavelengths at this angle, each of them having its own intensity. The colour of this point on the stereoscopic image depends upon the intensities of the two rays. According to this characteristic of the invention, the stereoscopic image obtained in visible light exhibits shades of colours.
The object being shot emits rays according to a predetermined spectral distribution. In visible light, this distribution produces the colour of the object that we see with the naked eye. The projection reconstructs, from each storage medium, each point of the stereoscopic image with rays whose spectral composition is identical to that of the corresponding point on the object being shot. It is possible to consider the wavelength of 550 nm as being, for example, green in colour. If the object point A emits the wavelength of 550 nm (green) with a greater intensity than it emits the wavelength of 700 nm (red), the storage medium 53 will be more strongly acted on by the ray 132 (550 nm) than the storage medium 138 by the ray 134 (700 nm). On projection, the viewing angle P′-A′ will exhibit a greater intensity for the wavelength of 550 nm and the colour of the point A′ on the stereoscopic image obtained will tend to be green in the direction P′-A′.
The pair of wavelengths may make some points on the stereoscopic image appear somewhat green and others somewhat red. Other colours, such as yellow or orange, result from the superposition of these two radiations. The colour results from additive mixing of spectral colours, according to the chromaticity diagram well known to one skilled in the art.
The quality of the colour obtained improves as the number of storage media increases, and this leads to an enhanced visual comfort. For the same viewing angle of a point of the stereoscopic image, increasing the number of wavelengths makes it possible to get closer to natural colours.
In this case, and according to our example, when the object is green to the naked eye, the stereoscopic image obtained has a higher proportion of green viewing angles compared with an object which is of another colour to the naked eye.
According to the invention, the spectral range to which each storage medium is sensitive may be different from one storage medium to another. For example, that of the storage medium 53 may be located between 400 and 550 nm and that of the storage medium 138 between 550 and 700 nm.
When a secondary shooting or a secondary projection is carried out, a secondary grating is placed in the optical path between the primary grating or the screen and each lens.
Adjustment of the projection is achieved by correctly choosing the position and orientation of each item of projection equipment and, in the case of a secondary projection, the position and orientation of each secondary grating.
A secondary shooting or projection may be carried out through a secondary grating common to the all the lenses.
FIG. 15 illustrates a primary projection following a secondary shooting like that carried out in FIG. 14.
When animated images are projected, the different items of projection equipment must be synchronised with each other.
According to one method of the invention, the stereoscopy of the image to be obtained is reversed, i.e. the parallax is reversed. For this operation, the orthoscopic three-dimensional effect becomes pseudoscopic and vice versa. As illustrated in FIG. 16, constitutive elements are transferred to another storage medium 153 where, in comparison with the initial storage medium 53, the constitutive elements have been reversed in the left-right direction. This operation makes it possible to reverse the parallax of the stereoscopic image to be obtained.
In order to achieve this transfer, the first step is to carry out a so-called "transfer" projection, from the initial storage medium 53 on to a translucent scattering surface 162, of the constitutive elements of the image reconstructed from the elementary images, and the second step is to carry out a so-called "transfer" shooting, from the other side of the said scattering surface, of the constitutive elements on to a storage medium 153, such as that described in this invention, so as to form on it new elementary images.
The transfer operation is carried out separately for each storage medium.
After transfer, projection on to the screen from the storage medium 153 is carried out, according to the projection method described previously in this invention (FIG. 17). The angle made with the translucent scattering surface 162, at which the transfer shooting is carried out, is chosen as a function of the required angle of projection on to the screen.
By comparing FIGS. 13 and 17, it can be seen that the real points A′ and C′ have become virtual, that their order is reversed in the left-right direction and that the pairs of identical viewing angles are reconstructed after the transfer. Just as for the points A′ and C′, the left-right direction and the stereoscopy of the whole image are reversed.
According to the invention, it is also possible to deviate the transfer projection and/or the transfer shooting by placing in the optical path an additional diffraction grating which disperses laterally, as described previously in this invention.
In addition, in conformity with the present invention, the different possible embodiments described, with the use of a storage medium or storage media, may be combined with each other. The following may be mentioned as an example: the achievement of a secondary shooting with several storage media, followed by the transfer operation and a primary projection: FIG. 18 shows an example of a stereoscopic image obtained with three storage media. Here, the rays coming from the second and third storage media are not shown, in order to make it easier to interpret the drawing.
It should be understood that all the primary, secondary or other gratings used according to the present invention may be of the type described in connection with the grating 11 and that they may be similar to, or different from, each other in the same device.
It remains to point out, of course, that this invention is not limited to the examples of embodiments described and introduced, but that it embraces all the variants that lie within the scope of the appended claims.
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Which Classic Film Monster Are You?
Beginning in the 1930s, Universal Studios brought a number of movie monsters to life on the big screen. Those films became box office hits, many of which are considered classics to this day. So let's lower the lights on a dark and stormy night and take this quiz to learn which spooky and scary classic film monster you are!
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Frightening villagers is a full-time job. How do you feel about working nights?
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Which of these silver screen icons do you find the most intriguing?
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Even monsters need some shut-eye. What's the best way to catch some Zs?
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Do you find a full moon to be romantic?
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Which of these are you most likely to have an irrational fear of?
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How well do you get along with your neighbors?
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How do you dress for a night on the town?
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Have you ever sat down at a bar and ordered a drink such as a Gimlet or Negroni and the bartender replied: "Would you like that neat or straight up?" , and you had no clue what they were talking about?
Sometimes that would happen and I would reply: "I'll take it how ever you like it." That would get me through the night, but it would be nice to know how to order a drink exactly how you want it.
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Neat - Simply a drink ordered with no ice, straight out the bottle, at room temperature.
Straight-Up - This is a drink that is shaken or stirred with ice and then strained into a cocktail glass sans ice. Your drink will still be cold, but the lack of ice will prevent your from being slowly diluted.
On The Rocks - Served in a glass with ice.
Curaçao - Liqueur made of a sour orange, originally form the Netherlands.
Flip - Cocktail made with egg, in a shaker.
Apèritif - A refreshing drink typically served before a meal to stimulate the appetite.
Digestif - A drink, often sweet, served after dinner to complete a meal and aid digestion.
Mixology - A generally accepted as a slang term for a refined and in depth study of the art and craft of cocktail mixing.
Molecular Mixology - A special practice of mixing drinks using the analysis and techniques found in science to understand and experiment with cocktail ingredients on the molecular level.
Are there others you have always been curious about? If so, let me know...
Sunday, August 22, 2010
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SHORT STORY SATURDAY: Too Much Fun!
It's another Short Story Saturday! Local writer, Charles Wilson, has another story this week. He took a story he read or heard and added a little imagination. If you have a story you would like to submit, send it to email@example.com.
You can call me Will, most folks hereabouts do.
It was a boring afternoon. I was kicking back with a big old joint in my mouth, a 40 oz bottle of malt liquor by my right foot on the floor and the TV remote in my hand. I was bored and ready to watch some NASCAR racing. Well, to put up with a bunch of advertising and talking heads with a few minutes of actual racing thrown in was more like it. There had been yet another crash and the cars were circulating the track at about 20 mph while crews cleared the mess.
This is the way most of the race laps would probably be spent, following the damn pace car around and around the big oval track.
I would rather have been out riding my dirt bike on the river bottoms, roosting around and doing jumps and the like but it was raining. So here I was in front of the tube. Personally I would rather do the crazy shit myself than watch someone else do it on the tv; it may be more dangerous but it's infinitely more fun. Like I said, it was a boring afternoon…
A foxy looking reporter in a low-cut top was asking some good ol' boy what he thought his driver's chances were. He was drawling his answer back to her, trying to avoid having his eyes fall into the chasm of her cleavage while in front of the camera. He didn't completely succeed and if I was in his shoes I wouldn't have either. Hell, even the camera seemed attracted to that tanned crevasse. It was infinitely more appealing than the good ol boy she was interviewing so maybe the cameraman was doing us males watching the show a favor.
That was when I heard a loud V8 drive up and stop outside. The engine revved a couple times rattling the windows in my old house. Then it was shut off, a car door slammed, and moments later my front door opened. A familiar voice said, "Yo, dude, let's go have some fun." It was my pal from work, Johnny, with a huge grin on his face. Johnny was a few years younger than I, maybe 25, and based on the tales he told at work he seemed to always be into some sort of mischief.
"What sort of fun do you have in mind?"
"My sister and her husband are in Hawaii, he left his truck in the driveway and the keys were on the kitchen counter when I went to feed their cats. Let's go try that sucker out on the river bar. As long as it's clean and parked in the driveway when they return he'll never even have a clue."
Quick as a flash I hit the remote, the tube was off, and I was out of the sofa. I did remember not to kick my 40 over as I got up. I walked to the door and sitting in front of the house was a beautiful, red, early 1950s Ford pickup with rear tires over a foot wide and a big air scoop coming up through the hood. It looked and sounded like one serious badass hotrod! Johnny was nuts if he wanted to take that classic down on the bar but hey-it was his sister and his ass.
And it was a boring afternoon!
I rolled a few joints, grabbed my 40 from the floor, followed Johnny out to the truck and opened the door to get in. A full case of Eye Of The Hawk ale sat unopened on the floor of the cab. I climbed in, put my feet on the case of ale, stuck the 40 between my knees and leaned back in the seat. Things were about to happen and I had left my boredom in the house with the TV remote.
"This is a mighty nice truck to take out on the gravel Johnny, are you sure you don't want to just take a drive over the Wildcat or something? This rig belongs on the pavement."
"Nah, I wanna slide this thing around a little. That and get righteously drunk! I'm taking a week's vacation so I don't have to show up at work tomorrow. I plan to celebrate!"
"Well, it sure looks like you have your supplies aboard so I guess let's get on with it."
He started the motor and revved it a couple times. The noise probably was rattling windows and churning the milk in dozens of cow's udders all over the lower Eel valley. That rig was LOUD! He stuck it in gear and we rumbled out of town on Grizzly bluffs, hung a left on Waddington, then Johnny floored it. The tires let out a howl, the engine bellowed and the slam in my back was like getting launched on a rocket. This was going to be lots of fun!After a few seconds Johnny took his foot off the gas, a good thing since we were already far in excess of 60 mph on the narrow two lane road. We rumbled along the rest of the way at a responsible pace till we arrived at the access down to the river. Johnny idled the truck down to the gravel then shut it off. He produced a joint, a lighter and a bottle opener, pulled a bottle from the box under my feet and deftly popped the cap off. The first bottle was empty in under a minute. Johnny opened the window and deftly hooked the empty into the back of the truck then rolled the window back up.
"That's better" he sighed then he lit the joint, took a big hit and handed it to me. While I took a toke he popped the top off another bottle. The joint made its way back and forth between us as Johnny drank his ale and I worked on my 40. After a while that reefer was done, so was my 40, and I produced a fatty of my own, lit it up and helped myself to one of Johnny's bottles of ale.
The empty 40 went in the back to join Johnny's growing collection. And I was getting starting to get righteously fucked up!
When my fatty was nothing but a cold butt, Johnny tossed it out the window along with his latest dead soldier. He started the truck, revved it again to keep the cows nervous and dropped it into gear. Moments later we lurched forward while the rear wheels sprayed river gravel out the back like a rocket's exhaust. Johnny spun donuts, figure 8s, and the crazy fool even took one try at a small jump but the old rig had suspension that was set up too stiff for that kind of shit, this was a street rod, not a river rat. He would have been better off if something had broken then and there.
We spent the rest of the afternoon drinking, smoking, and abusing that poor truck. If Johnny's brother in law knew what Johnny was doing to his treasured ride he would have tied him to the bumper and dragged him all the way to Petrolia.
Even though it continued to drizzle the river seemed to be dropping fast throughout the afternoon . By dusk there was a lot more gravel to slide around in and we were both pretty looped. Actually looped is being kind-we were both plastered, stoned, and thoroughly fucked up! Johnny was still sober enough to realize he shouldn't be driving home till we sobered up a little though so he drove to a spot about 30 feet from the water, turned off the motor and moments later he nodded off. I followed him into dreamland within minutes as the river gurgled by outside.
"Hey! What the fuck?" Johnny's yell brought me awake in a flash. It took a couple seconds to realize my feet were soaked. Outside the truck the drizzle had stopped, the clouds were gone and a full moon shone down upon a fair expanse of moving water that was now between us and the shore. We were in trouble! Deep trouble you might say…
I opened my door with some difficulty, and water rushed in to cover the bottom of the seat. I slid off the seat, into the river and started wading and swimming for shore. I could hear Johnny splashing and swearing behind me. We ended up staggering onto the riverbank about 50 yards downstream from the truck then we looked at each other in the moonlight.
"Oh shit! Shit! Shit! I'm screwed, Will!" Johnny wailed as he watched the water glistening in the moonlight while it flowed around the truck. Then he bent over and threw up on the gravel. A strong smell of beer came up from the steaming mess. My stomach contents almost joined Johnny's when that smell hit my nostrils. I moved a few feet away, head throbbing. I felt like shit and Johnny had drunk a lot more than I had.
"We gotta get that thing outta there!" Johnny wailed and tossed his cookies again. I moved a few steps further upwind…
I answered, "I have an old friend that lives about a mile back up the road, let's hike to his place. He has a big gnarly 4 x 4 and loves to show off what it can do. Short of a tow truck he's probably your best bet."
So we set off trudging up Waddington under that cold full moon, boots squishing with every step. Johnny kept up a quiet string of curses under his breath as he staggered along. Every now and then he would stop, retch a little more and moan, "My ass is hamburger if I can't get that truck out, not even hamburger, it's dogfood."
It took us about half an hour to squish our way to my pal Mark's dad's ranch. Fortunately the temperature was fairly warm, it felt like maybe low 50s, so the exertion of slogging along kept us warm enough so at least hypothermia wasn't going to be a serious problem. Johnny by this point was moaning, "I wish I was dead".
"When Barbara and her hubby get back from Hawaii you may get your wish, Johnny boy." I always was a joker…
When we got to the ranch house I figured we would go knock on Mark's bedroom window but Johnny lurched up the porch stairs and started banging on the door yelling, "Hey, help me. I need help. Come on, wake up and let me in dammit!"
Lights came on inside, then the sound of footsteps could be heard approaching, the porch light came on, the door was flung open, and my buddie's dad stood there nude holding what looked like his old service .45 from Nam. It was a convincingly ugly piece of metal!
"What the hell do you mean waking people up at 4 AM. You better have a damn good reason! Oh, Will, it's you. You and your friend here look like a couple of drowned rats. Now what's going on?"
Johnny spoke first. "I have a truck stuck in the river and I need someone to come down and tow it out. Will said he thought that your son's 4 x 4 should be big enough to do it."
"A truck stuck at 4 am?" The old man laughed uproariously and said "I bet there's a humdinger of a story behind this… Come on in and I'll get Mark. But stand on that rug guys. I don't want you dripping all over my hardwood floor." He gestured to an oval rug just inside the house and walked back to rouse his son.
A couple minutes later Mark and his dad returned. Mark was mostly dressed already and was pulling on a sweater while his dad had put on a robe. While Mark's dad made coffee Johnny gave them both a highly edited explanation of the situation and assured Mark that his big F350 would pull the borrowed rig out in a blink. After a couple cups of coffee Mark pulled on his boots and said, "Well guys, let's do it." His dad wished us luck and out the door we went.
Mark went first into the barn and returned with half a dozen feed sacks, opened the door to his rig and spread the sacks on the passenger side of the seat. He went back in the barn and came back with a coil of cable with hooks at both ends. The cable was tossed in the bed of the truck where it landed with a loud THUNK. Mark climbed in his truck and gestured for us to do the same. "Don't get too close boys, I'm dry and want to stay that way!"
Five minutes later we were back at the scene of the crime. And I guess it was an actual crime, not just a figure of speech. The moon was lower in the sky, hovering just above the Wildcat hills but it still shone with enough light to clearly show the hapless hotrod facing downstream with water flowing smoothly around it.
Mark said "Jesus Christ! I can't tow that thing out guys. My cable won't reach that far and your rig is pointed crosswise to us. Even if the cable did reach I would have to pull the front end around first before the truck could roll. You guys need a real tow truck. The tide will start going out soon and as it does the river will drop as well. Then you can get a cable on the truck and get it out of there but I'm not going to try. We would just end up with two stuck trucks instead of one. Let's go back to the ranch, you can call the towing service and borrow some dry clothes."
"Will, you call the tow truck, would you? I'm going to stay here and make sure nobody fucks with the truck." Now who would mess with a semi-submerged pickup at 4:30 in the morning is beyond me but we left Johnny gazing despondently at the old hotrod as the river slid by. Its gurgling sounded like a quiet chuckle.
Back at the ranch Mark's father was dressed, had made another pot of coffee and was reading a book at the kitchen table with a steaming mug at hand. Without a word he got up, poured two more mugs full, handed one to Mark. He reached down, opened a cupboard and took out a bottle of whiskey. Into the other mug he poured a generous dollop then slid the mug across the table towards me.
"A little hair of the dog? Your friend smelled like he had taken on a whole pack of em. And lost! I figure you might have suffered a little bite yourself. He laughed again and shook his head. The coffee and booze helped settle my stomach and by the time the big mug was empty, I felt almost human again. It was time to make that call.
Mark got up and got me a cordless phone and the phone book. I looked up a towing service out of Fortuna and gave the woman on the other end of the line our sad story. She cheerily announced she needed a credit card number before they would roll anything. Mark's dad tossed one in front of me and said, "Use this and we can settle up later." After she was given the number, she announced that a tow truck would be there in about half an hour. I cut the connection, stood up and said, "I should walk back there and make sure Johnny is still OK. Besides he's going to need someone coherent to talk to the tow truck driver. He isn't doing all that well at the moment. Thanks for the help and the coffee, especially that cup with the whiskey in it. You were right about that "dog bite"…"
I squished my way back to the scene of the crime much quicker than we had staggered to the ranch. The coffee and booze had banished the headache and I felt remarkably chipper considering the amount I had imbibed myself. It sure didn't hurt that the truck was not my problem, it wasn't me who took the keys off the kitchen counter and decided to go for a ride. THANK GOD!
When I arrived Johnny was sitting on the gravel with a half empty bottle in his hand. A few more "dead soldiers" were scattered on the gravel around him. He was soaking wet and had obviously been back in the river and out to the truck. He had gotten the last half dozen bottles of ale and tossed them down to console himself. Some people never learn…
The tow truck arrived a few minutes after I did. The driver surveyed the situation and said, "I ain't going out and hooking that thing up, one of you guys have to do that. My job description don't include swimming!"
Johnny was in no shape to do anything but sit there blubbering so I stripped off my boots and the borrowed clothes, grabbed the tow hook and started dragging that cable out to the old Ford. It was a tough slog that took me several minutes. The river wanted to take me with it.
Finally, I was standing in front of the truck. I took a deep breath, bent over and groped underwater for something to fasten the cable to. It took several tries before I finally had it wrapped securely around what felt like the front axle. I gave the cable a couple hard tugs. It seemed secure so I splashed back to the tow truck and said, "Give that a try." The driver fired up his rig and started reeling the cable back. It came tight, slowed, and then as it continued to wind onto the drum the front of the old hotrod started to come around. In 2 minutes it was on the bank, water pouring out of the back. Johnny lurched over, started to open the driver's side door and was knocked over by the flood of water he unleashed.
Between what he had drunk the day before and the stuff he had had that morning you could have knocked him over with a feather. He was plowed!
"Where do you want this towed to?" the driver asked me since Johnny was reduced to maudlin self-pity and incoherence. I gave him the address of Johnny's place and told him to just leave it in front of the apartment or as close as possible.
"I'll give you a ride out of here if you want but he has to walk. I don't want my upholstery all soaked." The driver gestured at Johnny who was sitting on the gravel and wailing.
"No. Thanks, I better stay with this guy. He's completely out of it."
"I'll say! Well good luck getting him home buddy. If I had a wheelbarrow I would loan it to you 'cause he doesn't look like he can walk very well." With this the driver laughed, winched the nose of the old Ford up in the air and the two trucks crunched off across the gravel.
"Come on Johnny, get up or you'll get pneumonia. I don't want to stand here till you're sober so get off your ass and let's get moving. I gave him a hand and yanked him upright, draped his arm across my shoulders and started to walk him towards the road. It was a project but I got us up to the pavement and we started trudging back to Mark's place. Johnny stumbled along and if I hadn't been holding him up he would have done a face-plant in the first 100 feet. We had covered perhaps a quarter of a mile when I saw headlights approaching in the distance. I hoped it was Mark coming back to see how we were doing. Holding Johnny up was a lot of work doing it had gotten my borrowed clothes almost as wet as if I had worn them in the river.
A minute later a white and green SUV rolled up and stopped, the window rolled down and the deputy sheriff inside asked "You guys the ones with the truck in the river?" I started to answer when Johnny started yelling at him, telling the cop that he had enough goddam troubles and he didn't need no goddam cop giving him shit. He yelled quite a few other things as well, none of them polite or wise when addressing an officer of the law.
"Mister, you smell like a goddam brewery! You're drunk! " The cop got out and grabbed Johnny by the arm, slammed him against the SUV and told him to mind his manners. Then he opened the back door, shoved him in and slammed it shut again. He stuck his face in mine and said, "You want some of the same?"
"Hey, not me, I was just trying to help this guy get to someplace warm before he gets sick."
"He smells like he has enough alcohol in his system that you could drop him in Antarctica and he wouldn't freeze. Well, we'll take good care of him in the drunk tank. Now how did you get involved?"
I gave him a somewhat edited version of yesterday afternoon's events and the cop just shook his head and laughed. "OK, so where are you going now?"
"Just up the road about ¾ of a mile. I called the tow truck from a friend's ranch. I figured I would go back there and warm up a little. I had to strip and swim the tow cable out to the truck and then my pal there" I gestured at the back seat of the car where Johnny was slumped. "Got my borrowed clothes pretty soaked while I was trying to walk him back to the ranch."
"Hop in and I'll give you a ride then."
A minute later I was getting out of his rig in front of the ranch house and thanking him again. Lights inside told us that someone, Mark and his dad probably, were up.
"You can tell someone they can bail this guy out after the court offices open. Better tell them to bring him a change of clothes and a king sized bottle of ibuprofen. The way he smells he'll need every pill!" The cop laughed at his own joke.
"I may just leave him there, his brother in law will be coming back from Hawaii soon and when he sees his truck Johnny will be much safer in the tank. MUCH safer…"
The cop had a big belly laugh then. When he finally stopped he said, "Well, you have a good day now, mister. You know it's gotta be better than his!" He gestured with his thumb to the back where Johnny had passed out on the seat. He was still laughing as the window rolled up and the SUV motored off quietly into the dark.


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The Oenological Biotechnology research group was created in 1995 within the Oenology Unit of the Reference Centre of Food Technology (CeRTA). It has been considered by the Catalonian Government as a group of excellence (2005, 2009).
The speciality of the research group is the microbiological control of wine fermentations by means of Molecular Biology techniques. Initially, the main micro organisms studied were yeast and lactic acid bacteria, due their importance in wine production. Alcoholic fermentation is essential and done by yeast and the malolactic fermentation, recommended in some wines and carried out by lactic acid bacteria. For this reason, we have developed rapid and reliable molecular techniques for the identification at species and strain level in yeast and lactic acid bacteria. These tools have been especially useful to make ecological studies and to identify some strains with a great oenological potential. Somee of these strains have been used as commercial starters.
Finally, some rapid techniques have also been developed for the acetic acid bacteria analysis. These microorganisms, that are considered main responsible for some wine spoilage, had been practically ignored, although there is a clear necessity to control them during the vinification. On the other hand, these microorganisms are responsible for the acetification process, which is the main process for the production of vinegar.
Furthermore, in all the cases, the microorganisms have to face an aggressive environment. The group has also focused its research in analyzing the biochemical and physiological mechanisms of the microorganism adaptation to wine making.
Summarizing, the most important results are:
All these studies have been reflected in more than 100 papers in specialized journals and book chapters, over 150 congress communications, more than 30 contracts with enterprises and competitive projects (Autonomic, State and European), and 2 patents.
Moreover, some agreements have been set up with research groups from different countries that have provided different international projects (Spain: Scientific networks; France: Integrated actions and thesis codirections; Tunisia, Chile and Argentina: Integrated actions and AECI; Italy: thesis codirections; Italy, Greece, Switzerland and France: CRAFT European projects).
This research has been complemented with a formative activity that has been reflected 20 defended thesis and some others to be defended shortly. Moreover, this group has been especially active in initiating the Doctorate Program in Oenology, an Interuniversity Doctorate Program (7 universities in Spain), being its coordinator, the responsible of this group. In addition to this, this Doctorate Program has been distinguished with the Quality Mention (2004-2008) and the Excelence Mention (2011-2014).


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Scentsy Greece Incentive Trip: Thoughts/
So I'm trying to catch up with blog posts and this is one that I've been wanting to write on for a while. I want to tell you all about the trip to Greece. You can see the piccys here but wanted to tell you all about it.
Flew out to Greece with my sister who I had earned an extra spot for for free and we were taken straight to the hotel in Athens. It was an absolutely stunning view. We registered and out on the veranda next to the pool was everyone who had arrived earlier eating a gorgeous buffet dinner whilst we watched the sun set. The water was such a gorgeous blue and the sunset was even better.
The next day we went and had a tour of Athens and the Acropolis which was gorgeous. The rocks were super slippery and the Acropolis stands on this huge hill so you needed to be a bit careful with your footing. I took my vintage Yashica Mat 124g camera on this trip so enjoyed wandering around by myself and getting some good shots of things. The view over the city was absolutely incredible.
After the tour of the Acropolis we went out to eat at a authentic Greek restaurant. The food here was my most favourite in all of the trip and was authentic and just asbolutely amazing. It kept coming and coming and coming one plate after another. We had entertainment halfway through dinner---They had traditional dancers and musicians and then we threw plates which was oddly liberating!!!
The next day we went to 3 islands: Hydra, Pyros and Aegina....My favourite was Hydra for sure...the colours were amazing and there were donkeys everywhere. You couldn't get around except for the donkeys and wandering which I loved. I swear I had ice-cream at each island though because it was just so amazing!!! These islands had overflowing pistachio nuts as well which I thought was funny and gorgeous boats too. We had lunch on the cruise boat that took us around all of these islands and got a bit sea sick at one point. It was a long day but well worth it though and enjoyed every minute. We then met for a lovely dinner with Heidi and Orville who are the owners of Scentsy at a nice restaurant. We werent sure if they'd make the trip which was discouraging but we were so excited when we were able to see them at the restaurant.
The last day I just lounged around the pool, slept and took lots of pictures on my film camera. It was nice to not have to do much and just take care of myself and sleep and relax. In the evening we got ready for a very special trip to Athens because we were joining the Region 1 Scentsy Trip Incentive Earners Top 100 people who had earned a trip to Greece too. My first thought was OH MY WORD this is an awful lot of people. We get used to our little small group of people here in the UK and forget how super duper huge Scentsy is in the USA. I didnt know hardly anyone and felt really awkward but the dinner and entertainment were fantastic. We got a picture with Heidi and Orville and it was such a nice time to end the trip and there was the most incredibly gorgeous sunset I had ever seen in my life over the water there.
Next day it was just me and my sister who flew out to Santorini, Greece. It had been a bucket list thing for me to see for a long time and because of Scentsy I was able to make it happen. The island had very very twisty roads but finally we got to our hotel and OMG 1st the stairs were a killer and two the view was the most incredible thing I had seen in my life. Its near a volcano and hot springs and its stunning just absolutely stunning. The only other place that has been this beautiful in my opinion that I've seen is Venice that managed to take away my breath like Santorini did. The first night went to go see the famed Sunsets. There was huge amounts of people and it was a bit crazy but holy cow it gave me shivers down my spine. Apparently because of the nearby volcano it affects the sunset and makes it to the world famous thing it is. People clapped and cheered and you wondered if God was showing off a bit for sure. I really really want to go back there one day and see more of the islands if I can. I hear Tinos is great and I at least want to spend a day in Mykonos as well. Ohhhhhhh too many places to go I tell ya!!!
Had a very nice dinner last night at the hotel restaurant before packing up and heading out the next day. When we got to the airport though we were grounded for like 6 hrs because the winds were too dangerous to take off. So we missed our connecting flight and had to stay a night in a rather seedy airport hotel that smelled of fags and gave us stale spaghetti for dinner. I wish that we werent ending our glorious holiday like this but it is what it is. We then finally managed to get home which felt great.
It was such a fantastic trip---I came home with colour on my skin and a bit of a sunburn in places. I enjoyed spending time with my sister although because she was pregnant complained a bit but its ok. I cannot believe what a fantastic opportunity and experience this was because of Scentsy AND the chance to get one of my bucket list items crossed off...COME ON????!!!!
So just a few days to go to Scentsy Convention here in the UK/Ireland and the next trip will be announced for 2015. I cant wait to find out where we are going can you???
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My God, It's Full Of Sharks!
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