hey! look!

[egypturnash]

Wiggle-vision 3D, no glasses required. Works surprisingly well! And the link to the collection of Burning Man stereo shots using this technique makes me sigh wistfully...

[later:]
Also, I may have found the most obnoxious banner ad ever. Check it out. Fake Windows dialogue box, and it jiggles.

Comments

[eselgeist.livejournal.com]

aie that hurts my eyes after a while though.

for a quick three dimensional "sketch" i can see it being cool,
to help quickly indicate the depth of field.

mebbie if the alternation was faster?

very cool to see, though.. whouda thunk it?

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

How the heck did they get two photos from different angles of the naked guy? There's water splashing behind him, and you'd think that would move. Or did they use 2 cameras taking pictures at the same time? I'm a bit of a photography buffon. :)

[mutleyjames.livejournal.com]

They both really hurt a lot. Truly.
Where on earth did you dredge these up from?

[ilthuain.livejournal.com]

That's too creepy for words. The guy that figured that out is some sort of genius or madman, and must be watched carefully.

Actually, this technique is VERY old, older than I am in fact.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

In the 60's and 70's, a similair technique was found to this, where if you alternate between 'left' and 'right' frames at the right rate, which has to be pretty accurate, but only over a given span of time, you got very, VERY good stereo vision.

The overall rate mattered a LOT, as in when you turn it on, slowly adjust a knob until the image suddenly POPs into 3D, but the specific frame-rate was fairly unimportant, as the technique worked over standard broadcast television with a fixed actual frame rate, but a correctly-tuned rate of flipping between the two images.

And yes, the effect worked just fine for moving video as well, there was a couple specials on it 'back in the day' on the news at the time, but they were late-night specials and were just too far ahead of their time. I can dig up references if anyone is interested?

BTW, eselgeist? If you're getting a headache, you're not the only one. The 'downside' of the effect, was that if you didn't get the flipping rate correct, the visual would give you a headache after a while. There's a very large range where you get the 3D effect, but a very narrow range where it properly meshes with your brain without inducing headaches after a while, apparently from your brain having to constantly adjust it's sync to that of the images you're handing it.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

I've collected a few of those myself. Let's see...

[checks E:\Pictures\MovingGIF\old]
Yeah, here we go... fuckingannoying.gif, FUCKINGflashingbanner.gif...

[checks E:\Pictures\MovingGIF\new]
...and here's EVEN MORE FUCKING ANNOYING.gif.

I think I named those when I downloaded them from pages containing comic strips I was reading. Verrrry distracting. Oh yes, Mr. Advertiser, thank you for pissing me off while I'm trying to do something else. That REALLY makes me want to buy whatever crap you're selling!

As for the wigglevision images, interesting idea... but I think I prefer the old stereo-pair-side-by-side image. I can easily view those by diverging my eyes. (And aaargh it bugs me when people put them together the other way around and I have to *converge* my eyes instead! That's harder for me.)

[thunderbird.livejournal.com]

I'll bet you can get amazing stereo perception by diverging your heads, as well. ^_^

[tries it]

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Hey, it works!