⇍ March 6th, 2005 ⇏
Well, I sold my Lada. I know what you are thinking - it is the first sign of the apocalypse. Perhaps that is true. I guess we shall see if the world comes to an end. In the meantime, I have made the Lada the subject of my special "3D" Picture Of The Week.
To view the 3D images, you must be good at viewing stereograms. You must have the ability to diverge your eyes at will. Here are some tips:
Hei! The 3D image works great! Oh, so sad to see the lada leave the family.-- Dad
Thanks! I'm glad you were able to see the 3D image. The technique I used above is called divergent stereo, because your eyes have to diverge in order to match up the two images, with the left eye looking at the left image, and the right eye looking at the right image. Some people find convergent stereo easier. It involves crossing your eyes so that your left eye looks at the right image, and your right eye looks at the left image. Here is a version of the above picture done with convergent stereo: Here are some tips for viewing convergent stereo images: Hold your finger up about halfway between your face and the computer screen with the image on it. Focus your vision on the tip of your finger, but try to pay attention to the image behind it. You should see four blurry copies of the image behind your finger. Slowly bring your finger towards your face until the two center copies line up. Now comes the tricky part. Try to shift your attention away from your finger and towards the blurry combined image on the screen. With some practice, you should be able to pull your finger away and still see the blurry combined image. If you stare at the blurry image long enough, your eyes will eventually bring it into focus and you should see a perfectly focused 3D image. As before, your eyes must be perfectly aligned with the images, so you may need to rotate your head back and forth a little bit to get them to line up perfectly. With some more practice, you should be able to cross your eyes and get the images to match up without the finger trick. You just have to accept the fact that the combined image will be blurry for a while until your brain can figure out how to get your eyes to focus on an object that is much further away than it thinks. Personally, I find divergent stereo easier.-- Michael
That's cool. The convergent stereo worked best for me, but perhaps I just couldn't get my head in the right place when I tried the divergent stereo. In anycase, it's a very cool effect.-- Alix
ugh... it makes my eyes hurt! :-) but it looks cool.... maybe now i'll be able to see those magic-eye 3d pictures! i find the divergent stereo image easier to obtain... probably b/c i'm lazy and didn't try the convergent one hard enough! anyhow, sorry to hear about the lada... it was definately a unique vehicle!-- aaron
Maybe I was born to be cross-eyed. The second set come out real nice for me! The first set work well too. Oh, its wonderful to be versatile.-- Dad
Both drove me nuts. I finally got the convergent to work for me. Great effect! If anyone misses a lada, you know where to visit ;)-- Mum
Great thing-- John at 9:58am, Sunday February 12, 2012 EST
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