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Galbinus Caeli 🌯

@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.

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John Overholt

@SkipHuffman 3D doesn’t 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. stereo.nypl.org

Galbinus Caeli 🌯

@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.

Zillion

@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.

M.S. Bellows, Jr.

@zillion @SkipHuffman @overholt Thank you; that works much better for me. What fun!

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