Gregory's ServerThe Library of Congress has digitized a collection of 1920s stereographs ranging from racy to comic toโฆ other? https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?va=exact&sp=1&q=Exhibit+Supply+Company+%28Chicago%2C+Ill.%29&fa=displayed%3Aanywhere&fi=author&sg=true&op=EQUAL
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@SkipHuffman 3D doesnโt work for me, unfortunately, because of my amblyopia, but one of my favorite projects from the sadly defunct NYPL Labs was the Stereogranimator, which you could use to turn them into GIFs. https://stereo.nypl.org  @overholt Yeah, the 3D they use in movies doesn't work for me at all, the scene disintegrates into visual noise. But I can do static stereographs pretty easily. @SkipHuffman @overholt These stereograms are not made for cross-eyed, but parallel viewing: Hold the pair close to your eyes and look some distance through it until the combined image emerges. That said, parallel viewing is harder to learn than cross eyed, and viewing these cross eyed will give some of the effect.  @zillion @SkipHuffman @overholt Thank you; that works much better for me. What fun! @overholt I love how they all have titles to describe the scene. Like โThe Temptressโ for a woman peeking her head out from behind a curtain ๐   @overholt Thatโs pretty cool. Someday, Iโll print some out to try with my stereoscope. Iโve got a bunch of vintage cards but all older ones, I think. Iโve never seen cards with flappers in antique shops. @overholt maybe time to dust off my automatic stereograph morphing codeโฆ https://github.com/ryanfb/torch-warp @overholt That second one literally happened to me once. I (partially) fell down an uncovered manhole while looking at a pretty lady duck. ๐ฆ๐  @overholt Glad I practiced for all that time on those magic eye pictures. Now I can use that technique with vintage 3d porn.  @overholt @flockofnazguls Nice! I have a very lovely antique stereoscope my parents bought me as a teen. It still has patchy faded red velvet around the edges. And a collection of cards, in a very nice wood box (probably not original). One of the few larger possessions I've carted around with me this long. @overholt The only one of these that actually felt like it had depth was the manhole one, the rest seemed fairly flat (thought he balloons in the dog one did stand out) @nirak @overholt I helped with a collection of digital versions of these years ago. We created red/blue 3D and "wiggle stereoscopy" versions of some of them. https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/digitizers-blog/images-in-stereo/ @MidniteLibrary @overholt I remember seeing this! at one point I even had some red/blue 3D Glasses to look at them, but I have since lost them :( @nirak @overholt I made one of the manhole image: https://i.imgur.com/RpJ9vXq.gif |
@overholt If you don't know how stereograths work, they use parallax to produce a 3d image. You look at one image with each eye and your brain constructs a sensation of depth. Its pretty easy.
1) hold your phone sideways and open only the image, close any alt text or headers or footers.
2) hold the phone about 15cm/6in from your eyes, then cross your eyes so the two images merge in the middle.
3) move the phone slightly in and out until the image is in focus.
That's it. Might take practice.
@overholt If you don't know how stereograths work, they use parallax to produce a 3d image. You look at one image with each eye and your brain constructs a sensation of depth. Its pretty easy.
1) hold your phone sideways and open only the image, close any alt text or headers or footers.
2) hold the phone about 15cm/6in from your eyes, then cross your eyes so the two images merge in the middle.
3) move the phone slightly in and out until the image is in focus.