
While I was being nerdy I figured I'd also render a version in simulated Cinerama! Cinerama was a really ridiculous early widescreen system that used a camera with three lenses and three film strips, and was shown with three projectors, in order to capture and display a 146-degree panoramic image on a giant, deeply-curved screen. It is largely responsible for the rise of widescreen movies but ironically was so impractical to use that only two feature films were ever made in the process, with all the others being documentary travelogues.
The display format here with the arced black bars is called "Smilebox" and simulates the view of a real Cinerama screen from head-on, helping to reduce distortion from the extremely wide horizontal field of view.
The display format here with the arced black bars is called "Smilebox" and simulates the view of a real Cinerama screen from head-on, helping to reduce distortion from the extremely wide horizontal field of view.
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