Sunday, 2 May 2010

Stereograms




"More than meets the eye."

Gonna try my hand at making dem 3-D pics.

How to view stereograms :

Normal viewing requires the eyes to focus at only one point on a picture. Stereogram viewing however, is different. It requires the eyes to be unfocused and looking straight forward, focusing beyond the picture you are viewing.

Place the picture in front of you and relax your eyes, focusing into the distance (or to infinity). The picture in front of you should look blurred. However, as you focus your eyes further and further behind the picture, you would start to notice the two blurry images start to come closer and closer together. Keep focusing your eyes further and further away until the two blurry images come together at the center. Hold your focus there when this occurs and you should see the image as a 3-D picture!

23 comments:

  1. Wa.. see how baby has grown... ◕‿◕

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  2. Even more beautiful in 3D ... he should star in the Avatar sequel. ^_^

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  3. Aww.

    And is that his favorite toy?

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  4. How cool is this baby life !! :-)

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  5. lol, ok I just uploaded another one. This last one is the easiest one to see the 3-D IMO so if you haven't been able to see the pictures in 3-D, try this last one. I can see this last one easier than I can see the earlier three.

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  6. Doesn't work with me... :(

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  7. You need to sit a bit back, and look "through" the picture into the distance until the two images overlap.

    Otherwise, you could go the more expensive route and get 3D glasses and software.

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  8. lol or make a stereogram viewer of your own with cardboard and 2 simple lenses.

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  9. They look like identical twins to me....

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  10. haha ummm.... try to see them in stereogram so you can see the image as 3-D

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  11. I can see three cute babies...

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  12. LOL yes! The 3rd "baby" you see in the middle is in 3-D if you look carefully.

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  13. kekeke ok the last one is very, very hard to see. It has too much depth so by the time you focus on the fist, the bear in the back is blurred so you need to focus further back to see the bear, but then the fist becomes blurred, like a true 3-D depth.

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  14. I think I got it this time ! Amazing !
    Very cute pictures ! :-)

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  15. lol ya, I'm finding this really fun. Never made stereograms before and never realised how easy they are to make.

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  16. Poor little cute baby, just newly born and already beta tester ! :p

    I never tried 3D, do I need a specific camera ?

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  17. hehe but think about it this way, he's captured now for posterity in 3-D!

    Nope, just a normal camera. Take two pictures of the same object but from different viewpoints just 2-3 inches from each other. The idea is to capture two pictures of the same scene but from two points of view, one from your left eye, the other from your right eye. So, use the camera to take the two pictures at the positions each of your eyes would be at. The main difficulty is to take the two pictures without having the object (ie. baby) move between shots as well as keeping the lighting and colours identical. Might be easier to use two identical cameras 2-3 inches apart and snap the photos using both cameras at the exact same time, but I ummm... don't have two identical cameras...

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  18. I'll give it a try (without a cute baby though...) :-)

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  19. Aw.. so cute and chubby and cuddly.. I don't get the 3D thing, short of crossing my eyes. But anyways, enjoying double the cuteness.

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  20. lol, you have a street directory? You know the flat magnifying glass that comes with it as a bookmark? Take that out and put in in 2-3 inches front of you eyes and with a piece of card or anything flat, use it to divide the images so that your left eye can only see the left pic, the right eye the right pic. You should be able to see it a lot easier that way.

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