This page includes links involving various kinds of stereoscopic imagery (stereopsis), including those Random Dot Stereograms that you have seen people staring at in shopping malls.
If you land here and just do not know where to begin, you must at least try out the Wallpaper effect, where you will then get properly introduced to our Multi-Dimensional Babe.
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. . . 3D software _____ ASCII stereograms _____ General _____ Landscapes and terrain _____ Overview
. . . Make your own stereograms _____ Medical imaging _____ Molecular vizualization _____ Stereo pairs
. . . Subliminal perception _____ Various _____ Wallpaper effect
Magic Eye Inc.: http://www.magiceye.com/ The major company! Useful examples and sinstructions.
3D Logo Generator: http://wafu.netgate.net/3dlogo/e3dlogo2.html 3D text image generator Version 0.64. The text you input in the below text will become a 3 dimensional image! It works!
3rd Party Plug-ins for Adobe After Effects: http://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/aftereffects/main.html Add even more capability to your Adobe® After Effects® software. Look here to find the latest and greatest third-party plug-ins available from third-party developers.
The Queen A 3D Image tutorial using Metacreations Painter, Bryce, Poser, Ray Dream Studio and KPT by Martin Murphy: http://www.dccdesigner.com/Htm/Tutorials/TheQueen01.htm . . . low resolution roughs done in Painter. . . . Lighting by Bryce.
Ray Tracing and 3D Links - 3D Image and Texture Resources: http://www.povworld.de/objects/links3.html Many and varied links.
SOFTreat Co.: http://members.aol.com/threedr/ Create these at the touch of a button! Color Anaglyphs Red over Left Eye or Right eye either in Red/Blue or Red/Green Format. . . . Create your own exciting Stereoscopic Images on your PC using your very own stereo image pairs with this amazing software. Enhanced - 3D Stereo Image Factory™ PLUS v2.50..$99.00.
Ultimate 3D Links Free 3D Objects, Information, Plug-Ins, Free 3D Meshes, Modeling and Rendering Resource: http://www.3dlinks.com/index.cfm Wide range of available software, including Maya. Image samples.
Stereogram - SIRDS - SIS FAQ: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~etzpc/nz/sirds/creation.html Stereogram Creation. Subject [21] How can I write my own programs? Technical detail and coding (in C or C++).
http--www.retrojunkie.com-asciiart-3dstereo.htm: http://www.retrojunkie.com/asciiart/3dstereo.htm 3D Stereograms using ASCII text symbols. Several good examples.
On Constructing ASCII StereoGrams: http://vectorsite.tripod.com/tz3d.html . . . how to construct such stereograms using a text editor.
3D Sig: http://www.netaxs.com/~mhmyers/3dsig.html Todd's description of how he created this work of art.
3-D and SIRDS images: http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/3d.html This archive contains single image random dot stereo (SIRDS) and other 3-D images, together with related information and software. Many links.
Human Depth Perception: http://www2.iicm.edu/0x811bc833_0x000dacca?hyperwave=action%3Dplain.action Good explanation and examples.
Stereograms Information and Links: http://www.linklane.com/s/stereograms.htm
Tiles Directory - Color Stereo: http://www.colorstereo.com/_CS_1/tiles.img/__tiles.htm Variety of image types.
3D by Dan Shelley - 3D Image Library (Anaglyph, Stereo Pair & .JPS): http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan/3dimages/default.htm MARS in ANAGLYPH 3D, Cliff dwelings, . . .
3D by Dan Shelley - 3D Image Library - Miscellaneous #1: http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan/3dimages/images00.htm More landscapes, etc.
The 3-D Image Exhibit: http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/3dpic.html The following images were obtained from either earth orbit by SIR-C (on the Space Shuttle Endeavour), or from an airborne laboratory (AIRSAR) flying at 33,000 ft. By acquiring and processing "Interferometric SAR" data from these instruments, we can obtain maps of the topography of the areas illuminated by these imaging radars. From these maps of topography, we can form perspective views, 3-d analglyphs, and video fly-bys of the data (using the radar brightness as the intensity and the color indicating either height contours or frequency /polarization effects). Also, check out our 3-D movies and images. See also its Home page:
. . . The NASA-JPL Imaging Radar Home Page: http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html Synthetic Aperture Radar. Has a great quiz image!
Pre-Eruption 3D image of Japanese volcano online: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2000/japanvolcano.html A volcano on an island off of Tokyo, Japan, that erupted violently today was imaged in 3-D by a special radar during a recent Space Shuttle mission, and the image is now on line. Mount Oyama on Miyake-Jima island . . . shot ash as high as 3,000 meters (almost 2 miles), . . . The 3-D image, created with data from the JPL-managed Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), . . .
RIEGL 3D-Range Images: http://www.riegl.co.at/lms-z210/e_lms-z210_images.htm "3D Image Gallery" recorded by means of the RIEGL LMS-Z210 3D-Scanner. Preservation of Cultural Heritage; Topography; Panorama View; Enjoy beautiful Vienna - in three dimensions! Traffic & Industry.
SurrealPlaces 3D image galleries: http://surrealplaces.hypermart.net/ The images tend to range from about 90K to 180K . . . Most of these images are fairly amateurish compared to some of the pictures found on the internet, however the simplicity of the pictures allows them to make good wallpapers. Has Bryce Alive Network Ring.
3D Passion - 3D image gallery, tutorials, links, and more !: http://www.multimania.com/maxfalcon/english/ A variety of great synthetic images!
3DShop-Gallery: http://www.3dshop.com/ This is a 3D image gallery where you will enjoy various works of image artists. A variety of great synthetic images!
3D Glossary Image Types: http://www.vision3d.com/voctype.html Vision therapy. Eye exercises. Good quick overview of image types and methods.
Stereograms: http://www2.iicm.edu/stereograms Stereograms: Fascination with three dimensional images. An excellent overview of the different methods of steroscopic imagery and the jargon.
How to See Stereo: http://uwmml.pharmacy.wisc.edu/howtostereo.html How to See Stereo Modelling Pictures! There are two kinds of stereo images, relaxed and crossed. Stereo images of a small peptide. . . .
Warning! Danger! Enantiamorph Problems!!!!!! Viewing a crossed stereo in relaxed mode can produce strange results! For those in Chemistry, This will cause the enantiamorph to flip. This means that an R stereochemistry will be S and an S sterochemistry will be R. In fact all L amino acids in protein become D and vice versa. Also what's in front becomes the back and the back becomes the front. For simple stick images, it may not look strange, but more complex surfaces may be impossible to see.
Are you concerned? Maybe the overall conclusions of the view is the same in either image, but it makes a big difference to chemists who wish to come to the same conclusions as the authors of the images. And especially to biologists since all the natural amino acids in proteins are not D but L.
Links: make your own stereograms
Stereo Links Page: http://www.net1plus.com/users/darias/sterlink.html-ssi Galen's Stereogram Links Page. Want to try to make your own Stereograms? Popout is an easy to use Stereo Generator that you can use to make your own 3D pictures. . . . You can download a partially disabled Shareware version of Popout, and a fully functional Shareware version of Lview for Windows.
Downloads - Ascii Stereogrammer V1.0 @ LB Network: http://www.liberty-basic.com/downloads/applications/stereo10.html Ascii Stereogrammer can create random "ascii" character stereograms much like the "Magic Eye" random dot stereograms. The program uses a height level map . . .
3D-DOCTOR Segmentation, 3D Medical Imaging, Volume Visualization, 3D Image Processing, 3D Pattern Recognition, MRI, CT, DICOM,: http://www.ablesw.com/3d-doctor/segment.html 3D-DOCTOR: 3D Imaging, Rendering and Measurement on Your PC. 3D-DOCTOR provides three types of 3D image segmentation functions: Fully Automatic Segmentation, Interactive Segmentation and Segment Object Using a Training Area. NMR images of head.
3D-Lab, Image Gallery: http://www.lab3d.odont.ku.dk/Gallery/ School of Dentistry, Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Copenhagen.
3D IMAGE SEGMENTATION: http://nmr-aurora.ifc.pi.cnr.it/imaging/segmentation/segmentation.html We present a new approach to segmentation of magnetic resonance 3D data with a Gradient-Vector-Flow(GVF) snake applied to selective smoothing filtered images. The system allows automated quantitative image analysis . . . in anatomical and perfusion studies with magnetic resonance. Heart.
3D Image Processing & Synthesis Laboratory: http://3dips.jrc.it/ Methodologies for Information Analysis (MIA) Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS) Joint Research Centre. European Commission, Ispra (VA) - Italy. Medical and Health Telematics (Medical Images Data and Systems). 3D Medical Imaging, Image Compression, Holography, Fluid Dynamics, Signal Processing: PECORESA Project (QuickTime Movie).
Links: molecular vizualization
ExPASy - SWISS-3DIMAGE: http://tw.expasy.org/sw3d/ Database of annotated 3D images. SWISS-3DIMAGE (References) is an image database which strives to provide high quality pictures of biological macromolecules with known three-dimensional structure. The database contains mostly images of experimentally elucidated structures, but also provides views of well accepted theoretical protein models. The images are provided in several useful formats; both mono and stereo pictures are generally available. Also has: Other protein structure servers and tools to visit.
Ray3D - Stereoscopic Imaging, 3D photo and video production: http://www.ray3d.com/ Stereoscopic Imaging by Ray3D. Ray Hannisian's Home Page, specializing in Stereoscopic Slides and 3D Video. At right, wearing the 3D video 'Helmet-cam', Ray prepares to fly over the Mayan ruins of Palenque, (Chiapas, Mexico). Several image portfolios. .
http--edtech.erau.edu-courses-hf-wisej-615HFS-660-07.pdf: http://edtech.erau.edu/courses/hf/wisej/615HFS/660-07.pdf Depth perception. This is an example of the use of poor presentation techniques, using Adobe, of course!
3D Image Display Using Camera Matrix Stereo: http://www.image.esys.tsukuba.ac.jp/research/3DTV/3dtv.html In this research, we propose a 3D image display system which can present real scenes and reproduce realistic motion parallax.
3D Image Formats and Graphics Modes: http://www.stereo3d.com/formats.htm Detailed & technical.
3D Image Model Generation from Stereo X-ray Images: http://www.eee.ntu.ac.uk/research/vision/asobania/ The main objective of my research is the automatic extraction of 3-D information from images produced by a stereoscopic dual-energy X-ray machine. Once this has been acquired, the 3-D information is used to reconstruct solid image models. The stereoscopic dual-energy X-ray system used in the research contains an effective screening method, which is used in airport security system.
3D Image and Texture Resources: http://www.povray.org/links/3D_Image_and_Texture_Resources/ Many and varied links.
Four Dimensional Computer Graphics: http://www-staff.mcs.uts.edu.au/~don/pubs/fourd.html The techniques available for the animation of 3D images by computer are summarised, and exemplified by still and animated images. Various techniques.
Grand Illusions: http://www.grand-illusions.com/ Grand Illusions, the site for the enquiring mind. With optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic. See Pictographic Ambiguity for an well-known embed. Includes the CARBON DIOXIDE trick!
IllusionWorks: http://home.swipnet.se/~w-52528/sidor/illusion.htm Many and varied links.
Stereograms: http://www.slc.edu/~edavis/Stereo.html UNDERSTANDING STEREOGRAMS: FUN AND A TREAT FOR THE INTELLECT. Includes descrition of the wallpaper effect discovered and named by David Brewster, a Scottish physicist, after he noticed that the repeating patterns on wallpaper can leap out in depth. The same effect, looking down at a patterned carpet, can give you he distinct sensation of being suspended in space! For a more striking example of the wallpaper effect, see the top left image at the following site:
. . . Rascar's Log Stereogram Gallery: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/5121/gal.html Stereogram Gallery 1. Includes some striking images. See (1) the wallpaper image at top left, and (2) the Multi-Dimensional Babe (MDB) at top right! If you stare at her in just the right way (no leering now, please!), she will be quite a standout!
wallpaper02: http://www.estereomagia.com.br/ing/wallp02.html Has good images illustrating the wallpaper effect and the others, including a Multi-Dimensional Dude (well, part of him anyway!), in the section Photoscope (Stereoscopic pictures), last entry. Brought to you from Curitiba, Br.Saturday, 31 / March / 2001.
Wallpaper Depot - Free Desktop Wallpaper and Background Images!!: http://www.wallpaperdepot.com/6.phtml Has many sources of wallpaper images and music, for desktop and backgrounds.
Stereograms - How they work: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pagrosse/StereoExp.htm This page attempts to explain how various types of stereograms work whether they are SIRDS; Red/green; double image or whatever.
The World of 3D: http://cs.bmcc.cc.or.us/StuProj/CS121W00/Woydziak/Home.html The first random dot stereogram, like the one shown above, was invented by Dr. Bela Julesz in 1959 as an experiment to test stereopsis, the ability to see in 3D. I came across a Bell Monograph detailing this work quite by chance in the Physics Library at Queen's University in about 1965. I consider this to be a quite remarkable piece of research in that it established that a very significant amount of processing was required for the brain to finally recognize -- or, better yet -- construct, a three-dimensional interpretation. Some who tried it took a half minute. Others a minute or more. Others never did see the effect.
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