“Remember the 1990s craze of Magic Eye posters? Just like those, the spectacular space pictures in this gallery can be brought to life in 3D when viewers use a trick of the eye – with no need for special glasses. Stare into the screen and allow your eyes to defocus. You will get double vision as each eye sees the L & R images separately. Move your head towards and away from the screen until the two middle images overlap. The single overlapping image should be in 3D.”
Read more at The Telegraph (thanks, Dmaco)
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that is awesome!
thanks for sharing.
When I was a little boy (8 yrs old) the then magician David Nixon taught me the very same technique using fingers. You place both index fingertips of your left and right hand together and in the middle you see a sausage lol. Same principle. This is a more advanced and 3D version.
Queen guitarist Brian May is into stereo images, he’s even published a book about it. See his website for some cool stereo pictures
http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssbfeb08b.html
Two complaints – first off they seem to require you focussing behind rather than in front. This is annoying as there’s a limit to the image separation you can get (and hence the image size), since you can’t get your eyes to look further apart than parallel. If they were switched, you could look in front rather than behind, going cross-eyed and get an easier result.
Secondly, aside from the Moon (which librates) these all have to be basically faked. 3D images rely on having two alternate points of view of the object. This isn’t the case for anything but the nearest astronomical objects – you can’t take a picture from a few hundred light-years to the left to generate that kind of parallax.
I should probably say that ‘fake’ is a strong word too – they’re artists impressions, and the photographer is quite honest about their creation method (and also does the cross-eyed versions I’d prefer) so I mean no criticism of his work, just the lack of clarity about their presentation by some other places!
Amazing stuff thanks, I felt like I was in my laptop.
wow it worked :p but now my eyes wont refocus
SUPER i could almost feel the texture
I do love stuff like this, i wasnt sure it would work at first, but once you get the hang of it and focus (or unfocus!) correctly it really is amazing
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Hi,
I’m a man behind those 3D-images.
Stereo images are made from my original 2D-astroimages by using a method of mine.
Original 2D-images can be seen here:
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p1072219942
Volumetric information is based on some known scientific facts and an artistic impression.
3D-images are visualizations and approximations of reality!
Cross vision, parallel vision and the anaglyph Red/Cyan 3D images can be found here:
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/f359296072
Animated 3D-versions are here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/search/label/animations
All the best,
J-P Metsavainio, Finland,
Blog: http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.com/
Portfolio: http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/
Great post, I do love any image that challenges the mind to see in 3D. Got me thinking about how far apart the two cameras would have to be to create a true stereo image, exspecially with the distant galaxies.
Also thanks to J-P Metsavainio for the links, bloody beautiful site.