HOW DID YOU DO THIS

OMG I DID IT!

I think the images need to be switched... looks way better after doing it. :D

The flipside? That inverts what moves forward and backwards entirely. More of a pop, yes, but also far less natural.

it looks like the pole is sinking into the background, and so is the figure, while the cloud shapes seem to be popping out instead :B

The purpose of switching it is to make it easier to see--you can move your eyes a lot more when you cross them vs. when you 'look through' the image. This is one of those 'look-throughs', and if you swapped the L/R images and cross your eyes instead, you get the same image. It's just waaay easier that way.

After experimenting, I've found that crossing ones eyes may be easier for the majority. It'd probably be a good idea to create the wide-eye and cross-eye methods next to each other, for whoever favours a specific method to be happy.

or, instead of next to each other: on top of each other. that way the total image can be bigger.

WWOOAHHH

I'm floored. I've always wanted to do a stereogram ever since I've seen the Tool album cover that's full of them. I'm a lazy fuck, and so it's rad to see someone attempting to do this. I was also drawn to the rendering, I love the marks. Just what sort of custom brushes or settings do you use, may I ask?

I used a standard hard brush for most of it, except for one of CS5's jaggedy natural-looking brushes, which I rotate every now and the to keep it from looking too Photoshop. :B

Glad you got something out of it. Thanks for asking. :)

I forgot to mention—on the walk to the art building I took a cell-phone picture of a lump of dirty snow, so that's where you get the specks in the bottom.

you might like these too:
http://artbytheo.deviantart.com/gallery/26814253

I will look at this again when I put it on my 3DS >.> I'm lazy like that

HOW TO DO THIS

Tragelaphus did a tutorial: http://www.furaffinity.net/full/3757451/

However his finished image uses the cross-eyed view method rather than the parallel view method which is used here. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo.....g_scenarios.29

lol man that's pretty bad ass in 3D

I felt like I was trying to look at one of dem magic eyes

DAMNIT I stopped to write the comment and now I can't do it again!

Amazing mastery of the technique-- it really makes me feel like I could reach across the screen to touch him! Your whole gallery is absolutely full of gorgeous and unique work.

Thank you very much. That's a very encouraging compliment. :)

Urgh, I can't do it :/ I don't know how to look at a picture any other way that just, I dunno, looking at it. I made it a little blurry for a second, but nothing crossed over anything. I really want to see it >.<

I'm not sure how much this interests you, but I'd been planning to experiment with 3D in my later college work via a different technique than stereograms. By shifting back and forth between the left and right eye views at a decently fast framerate, a similar illusion of 3D can be accomplished. I actually took this work of yours and made it into a sort of proof-of-concept for my idea, to see if it would work for paintings.

http://i.imgur.com/4Vxdg.gif

The vibration sort of takes away from the intended tone of your painting, I think, and it's not as elegant as it appears in stereogram, but I find it to be a much easier way to allow people to see 3D images without straining their eyes (short of 3D glasses and the appropriate monitor, of course).

Either way, I'm very impressed with all this 3D work of yours!

Wanna know something funny? The same time you were making these one of my other friends had also made gifs of my images. I like that it's easier on the eyes, but it's a shame the stutter is so distracting. Thanks for taking the time to show me, at any rate.

Thanks for the compliment.

I haven't seen many stereoscopes like this one that use the parallel view method rather than the cross-eyed view method. If you use the cross-eyed view method on this the depth is inverted (everything that should be concave appears convex and vice versa), maybe that's why matrixretoasted thought the images were in the wrong order. Very good job anyways

For whatever reason I assumed it was less stressful for most people to handle the parallel method. Looks like I may have been wrong! More than a few people have told me that my 3D was inverted, and I was confused about that for some time.

Thanks for the clarification.

Well your picture inspired me, so I went and made my own far less imaginitive and original stereoscope: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5648888/
I made it cross-eyed since I have so much trouble with the parallel view method.

OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL.
I DID IT.
ARE YOU A WIZARD?

Let me just emphasize how retardedly awesome this is:
mind=blown

WOW

i read every comment and i keep failing i cannot get it waugh

While looking at the center of the stereoscopic pair, place your finger about halfway between you and the screen. If you converge your eyes to focus on your finger you will notice the images on the screen begin to overlap.

Adjust your finger's position until the images completely overlap. Because you are still focusing on your finger, the images on the screen will be blurred.

The trick is to remove your finger and allow yourself to focus on the screen without uncrossing your eyes. Done correctly, you will see three images on the screen. The center image will have depth and the two outer images will not.

Your brain translates the disparity between the images that have overlapped into the experience of depth.

Hey, do you mind if I combine this into a 3D image for a 3DS? It'd be soo cool that way.

One of my friends did that already. Regrettably, I don't have the file on me, but go nuts!

Well, that's not too regrettable, since I can recreate it in a cinch. I wish there was a way for FA to display the jpeg associated with the mpo, and then have the 'full view'/'download' link take you to the mpo

and, uh, forgot to ask: how exactly did you make it 3D? Just curious. I'm familiar with different methods but was just wondering which you used. :)

I used tragelaphus's tutorial, which is linked in one of the earlier comments.

Okay, that's cool.

My eyes are dumb! WORK DARN YOU.

There's always this: http://i.imgur.com/4Vxdg.gif