I was reading up on stereoscopy (stereoscopic imagery), an old fascination of mine, and it occurred to me that I have the power to create some interesting images using Maya and some of the files that I've got ready for Genesis. Here's a corridor from the movie.
Instructions:
1. Sitting at a comfortable distance from your monitor, keep your head very still and cross your eyes until the end of the hall (or something else that catches your eye) lines up from both images.
2. Once the hall's focused (you might have to tilt your head a tiny bit till it's straight), relax your eyes a bit and have a look around the room. The end of the hall should appear to be much further away than the rest of the foreground.
3. Viola - a stereoscopic image!
Warning: if you're prone to headaches, don't do this for very long. and.. Oh! I'm not liable for any exploded eyeballs. That is all.
Instructions:
1. Sitting at a comfortable distance from your monitor, keep your head very still and cross your eyes until the end of the hall (or something else that catches your eye) lines up from both images.
2. Once the hall's focused (you might have to tilt your head a tiny bit till it's straight), relax your eyes a bit and have a look around the room. The end of the hall should appear to be much further away than the rest of the foreground.
3. Viola - a stereoscopic image!
Warning: if you're prone to headaches, don't do this for very long. and.. Oh! I'm not liable for any exploded eyeballs. That is all.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Scenery
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 840 x 480px
File Size 162 kB
Do you happen to own a pair of those red & blue 3D glasses?
If so you might like this site: http://www.3dcosplay.com/
If so you might like this site: http://www.3dcosplay.com/
Heh... this would be great... but I lack the ability to cross my eyes. They just do this shakey thing anytime I cross my eyes on anything further away than my nose.
Granted I've trained myself to shake them on cue, and it's good for freaking people out... or winning staring contests.
Granted I've trained myself to shake them on cue, and it's good for freaking people out... or winning staring contests.
For the viewers:
1: Sit so you are almost precisely arm's length from your monitor.
2: Hold your pointer finger and thumb as far apart as you can, then touch your thumb to your nose for the starting distance of your pointer finger tip.
3: With the tip of your pointer finger JUST Below your view of the images on the screen, look at the tip of your finger.
4: Continue to look at the tip of your finger, moving it just slightly towards or away from your face. Pay attention to the two boxes BEHIND it on the screen until you have three perfectly aligned boxes (The one in the middle must be perfectly aligned, so tilt your head left or right if it's off up/down)
From there, it's easier to "jump off" your fingertip into the image itself.
For the creator:
Tidbit less dead space in between
More dead space fully to the right or left of it. :)
1: Sit so you are almost precisely arm's length from your monitor.
2: Hold your pointer finger and thumb as far apart as you can, then touch your thumb to your nose for the starting distance of your pointer finger tip.
3: With the tip of your pointer finger JUST Below your view of the images on the screen, look at the tip of your finger.
4: Continue to look at the tip of your finger, moving it just slightly towards or away from your face. Pay attention to the two boxes BEHIND it on the screen until you have three perfectly aligned boxes (The one in the middle must be perfectly aligned, so tilt your head left or right if it's off up/down)
From there, it's easier to "jump off" your fingertip into the image itself.
For the creator:
Tidbit less dead space in between
More dead space fully to the right or left of it. :)
Finally got it to work. Cool effect, but ouch.
People actually used to make stereoscope viewers for use with special cards that had two pictures side-by-side. I've got one, and quite a few cards. The best thing is that you don't have to do the cross-eyed thing, so you can look at 'em without getting tired.
People actually used to make stereoscope viewers for use with special cards that had two pictures side-by-side. I've got one, and quite a few cards. The best thing is that you don't have to do the cross-eyed thing, so you can look at 'em without getting tired.
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