Comments on: 3D Space Pictures Of Moons, Galaxies And Nebulae

By: Nicholas M Vivian

Nicholas M Vivian — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:37:14 +0000

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.

By: J-P Metsavainio

J-P Metsavainio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:21:17 +0000

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/

By: Dmaco

Dmaco — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:52:22 +0000

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

By: JibJIB

JibJIB — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:23:24 +0000

SUPER i could almost feel the texture

By: steffjade

steffjade — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:12:16 +0000

wow it worked :p but now my eyes wont refocus

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:31:02 +0000

Amazing stuff thanks, I felt like I was in my laptop.

By: Edd

Edd — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:52:06 +0000

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!

By: Edd

Edd — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:48:21 +0000

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.

By: Alex Guy

Alex Guy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:56:18 +0000

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

By: Trevor Taundry

Trevor Taundry — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:54:10 +0000

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.