Finally posted my stereo pics

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I've finally posted my Arisia pics. They are all in stereo / 3d and available in two formats. The prefered means of viewing the images is in the side by side format. You'll either need special viewing glasses or the ability to control your eyes better than I can. Optionally if you have red / blue glasses (given out with various 3d movies and toys) you can view the red / blue anaglyph format images. If you have neither and want to see the images in 2d then look at the side by side formatted images.

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[ckd]

Another way to give a 3D effect, even for people who have trouble refocusing their eyes in odd ways, is to rapidly switch between the two images. (See, among other examples, major_clanger's default userpic.) There might be some simple way to do this in JavaScript, perhaps even with a way to control the switch rate....

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I considered doing this, I even scribbled out a quick javascript page to test what it would look like. I decided that without retooling all of the images individually they wouldn't look very good in this format (and I already spent the better part of a day on this image set). The gory details follow. The issue is that when using this format, you want the focal point of the image to be the axis upon which the image is rotated. In other words you want the images to be placed such that things at the distance from the camera of the subject of the image doesn't shift between the two images but everything else does. This is also one of the ideals with red/blue anaglyph images because it means you have the least ghosting on your image subject. However on traditional stereo photography you put this convergence distance at infinity because it is more natural for viewing. Because I'm using hyper-stereo (two cameras are further apart than the eyes) and taking pictures where the subject is about 6 ft away, I need to compromise on that and move the convergence point forward, and I typically prefer a few feet behind the subject for this type of photo. What this means for the flipping technique of viewing is that you have NOTHING staying put and so nothing to focus on. Hmm, I suppose if I redid my tool chain (I wrote the whole thing anyway), I could fairly easily support almost all of the standard viewing formats in a javascript app and set up the images fairly painlessly. I think that's for another day though.

[ckd]

Yeah, I can understand that. I appreciate what you've put together already, and I'm sure it was a fair amount of effort; thanks a bunch!