3-D On The Cheap

[Lucky Poet]

I was digging around in the darker recesses of my computer and found this from a while back. Anybody else ever tried it? Sit back from the screen and cross your eyes till the two images merge, like those Magic Eye pictures from the 90s.

You take 2 photos from a distance apart (a few inches if you're close to your subject, several feet if you're further away like this one), stick them side by side in Photoshop or whatever (the left hand pic to the right and vice versa), and bingo. Try not to make the photos too wide or your eyes'll fall out. (There are instructions around the interweb for making anaglyphs for use with red/green glasses but I've not got round to trying it yet.)

[stinkpad]

I can never get those crosseye images. If you animate it you can get a quick and dirty 3d view.

[HollowHorn]

That's amazing!

[hazy]

That's amazing! ::):

Its just a still photograph. Your been on the sherbit dips again mad man

[HollowHorn]

It don't look very still to me, spanner man.

[Fossil]

cheers stinkpad I must try this
have you any more

[Lucky Poet]

*Cough* And who took the bloody photo?

[Lucky Poet]

Useful for soft focus shots...

[stinkpad]

Sorry Lucky Poet, was just using it for illustration. Here's a macro one I did a while back:

[Lucky Poet]

Not at all, Stinkpad, feel free. No need to apologise, it's those other ignorant sods . It's a strange effect when they're animated, it works nicely wi that flower . I worked out how to do it once using the Gimp for past present type things, but have since forgotten. You should persist with trying the cross-eyed routine though, it's neat when you get it.

[Grahame]

This site has some good examples of the animated ones.

[ninatoo]

Ugh, now I feel nauseous and there are double the amount of keys on my keyboard .

But....that was great Lucky Poet. I got to see the 3D effect after several attempts and the start of a headache .

[Doorstop]

The 'TOOL' album "10,000 Days" has a built in stereoscope ...



... and with a bit of patience and a bit of jiggerypokery is ideal for viewing these images .. well done for making me think, it's been a while.

[Lucky Poet]

That diver is brilliant, Grahame I must try making one of those, though I don't know how you'd get two photos at precisely the same moment. Somehow setting up paired cameras?

Ninatoo, I'm assured your eyesight will return to normal in a couple of days

I'd not thought of that at all, Doorstop, and my mate's got a copy too... I must give her a bell and get a loan of it. I take it you have to swap the 2 images over to make them work with one of those? That's got me thinking too, there must be Edwardian stereoscopes lurking about in junk shops, I'll have a root around next time I'm near one (or check Ebay). Cheers!

[Grahame]

I don't know how you'd get two photos at precisely the same moment. Somehow setting up paired cameras?

There was a guy wandering round during Radiance with a home-made rig comprising two digital compacts on a wee T-bar with some sort of electronic control box mounted next to it, for taking stereo piccys. He did tell me his website addy at the time but I'm buggered if I can remember it now.