Seth - try sitting further from the monitor- about 2 feet away, put your finger on your nose and focus on the finger, then move your finger towards the screen but keep your eyes crossed until you see 2 fingers (no it's not a rude joke). You should then be able to see three pictures in each row. Try to relax your eyes and concentrate on the picture in the middle- it's the one in stereo.
And, or he's really fast, or he used two cameras, either way it's impressive !!
Well done!
Btw, I checked your collection on Flickr Brian, really astonishing !! But after 20 or so my eyes started to hurt
Regards
I don't mind at all. And yes, I used two identical cameras and lenses held bottom-to-bottom to make sure the images would be on the same plane. Wish now I had done more. (the camera I borrowed is no longer available)
I remember back in the 90's I could never make those magic eye posters "work". I think half the people that saw them were just BS'ing me. "Whoa, look! A unicorn riding a rainbow! Cool!"
The technique that works best for me is to sit between 1-2 feet from the image, and cross my eyes gradually. As I cross my eyes more and more, the two images join together in the middle. The goal is to make the "center" image converge perfectly, kind of like focusing a rangefinder camera. (Try to ignore the two "outer" images!) Once the image converge, I concentrate on keeping them converged for a few seconds. Then I blink a few times and make sure the images stay converged. Once I have a nice rock solid (but blurry) converged picture, I concentrate on one specific sharp detail in the picture (the bee's wings worked well for me) and try to focus my eyes to see the wings sharply. I do it veeeery slowly, because if I try to snap focus I lose the convergence. Once my eyes are focused, the 3D effect pops out.
Apparently there's an alternate method where instead of crossing your vision, you make it parallel, like you're looking to infinity. I was never able to make this technique work.
Thanks for the 3D images, Brian! I particularly liked the flower picture. The effect of the 3D petals with the stamen floating in the middle was very effective.
Chris although you can view these in parallel, the 3-D will be wrong as the pics have been swapped over. I think more people can view the cross-eye stereograms than the parallel type that you stare through. The magic eye pics were parallel stereograms .
I'm so used to viewing these type of 3-D pairs that my eyes and brain do them automatically whenever I see a pair of pics.
brian v.
trevilla wrote:
what do you mean 3-D? What's a crosseye sterogram?
trevilla these are all stereo pairs, by using the right viewing technique you can get your eyes/brain to fuse them into a single 3-D picture- see below.
These can be viewed as is by slightly de-focusing your eyes and then cross them until an image appears in the middle and then relax your eyes to get a stable 3-D image. It's worth the trouble!
But don't overdo it if you have difficulty- try again later.(headache warning).
