Crossed Eye Stereo Pairs - Page 1

Page 1 Easy - Instructions
Page 2 Woods and a flower
Page 3 Woods and a flower
Page 4 Woods and a flower
Page 5 Mars - Opportunity
Page 6 Mars - Spirit
Page 7 Flowers
Page 8 Flowers
Page 9 Misc.
Page 10 Misc.
Page 11 Clouds
Page 12 Walton-Olson Beads
Page 13 Karen's Bye-Beads
Page 14 Unicorn Beads and others.
Instructions:

Sit back from your monitor a bit. Center a pair of pictures on the screen. (Use the Display Control Panel, Mac or PC, to set your display to at least 1024 pixels wide.)

Method 1Hold a finger up in front of the middle of the picture pair, about a third of the way from your face to the screen. Focus your eyes on your finger but try to concentrate on the pictures behind it. If your eyes are crossed the right amount, you should see 3 images, the one in the middle is a merge of one image from each eye and will be 3 dimensional.

Method 2Cross our eyes a bit and notice that there is an area of overlap of the pictures in the middle. Pick some feature in that section and try to focus our eyes on it. This may cross your eyes correctly and bring the pictures into one lovely 3D image.

To take such pictures yourself with one camera, you will need a stationary scene. Take one picture with your right eye looking through the viewfinder. Without moving your head, move the camera to the left eye and take another picture of the same thing. You can look at them on your computer or look at prints and see the scene in 3D. Make sure that the picture taken with the right eye is on the left and the picture taken with the left eye is on the right. If you get them wrong you will get a 3D effect but it will look funny and you may see spots that don't look like they are seen with both eyes.

Of course you may prefer to actually use the same eye with the viewfinder each time. In that case just move to the side about the same distance as the separation of your eyes, a few inches. It doesn't have to be precise, but with too little sideways separation you won't get much 3D effect. With too much the 3D effect will look artificial somehow.

I've put the easiest pictures to see in 3D on this first page. They are, probably for the same reason that they're easy, the least spectacular when seen in 3D. So, if you're not impressed and you've mastered the technique of crossing your eyes, go on to the following pages.

Have fun! - Garr



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Crossing, Denton County, Texas
Dogwood, Lewiston, Idaho
May Flowers show at Dallas Arboretum, May 2008
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Yum, Thursday night pot roast!


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