Stereo Imaging

If you have one of those 1600 pixel wide monitors, you may prefer the high resolution images here . The images on this page are resized so a 1024x768 monitor won't give the pics the jaggies.

This page is an attempt at stereovision, or 3D, display on your average mono screen. Each stereo image is made in your head from a set of images, a left and a right image, taken with a camera with identical settings, and spaced only a few inches apart. On this page, you'll find sets of images, each set is a left and a right. Cross your eyes so the left eye looks at the right pic, and the right eye looks at the left pic, you'll see multiple images as your eyes cross. Change the degree of crossing to align the stereo set of pics so you see three images, and you are focussed on the center one, which should seem to have depth of field, a three dimensional effect. Some items in the center pic should appear to actually be in front of or behind other items in the the center pic you see when your eyes are crossed. For instance, for the first pics set of the bow, the bow structure definitely appears in front of the background clutter, and the large rusty ring actually appears to encircle the bow structure!

This is not "defocussing" your eyes. It's not "desyncing" your eyes. It's merely looking at two (as in stereo) different images, one to one eye, one to the other eye. There was a company, may be still around, that made a viewer which used miniature translucent film images on a round disc. You looked thru the device, as if the device was binocular, and because it was "binary ocular", your right eye saw one image, and the other eye saw another image on the other side of the disc. There was no defocussing your eyes, no "desyncing" (whatever that is), it is all about two (as in stereo or binary) images, like two (stereo or biaural) sound system speakers. Since humans aren't so good at going wall-eyed and looking descretely at two images, and they are good at going cross-eyed, putting the left image on the right, and the right image on the left, then looking across to the opposite image gives you the stereotaxy and 3D imagery!

I recommend full screen viewing, and keep the mouse pointer out of the pics. With practice, this becomes easy. Yes, both the crosseyed viewing and keeping the mouse pointer out of the view become easy!

I used a Fuji FinePix S700 7megapixel camera for these photographs, and mogrified them to 400x300 for uploading to this page. The stereotaxy doesn't seem to be inpaired by the scaling. I have been holding the camera by hand so far, but i should maybe put a tripod with a swing mount or slide on the to-do list.