Animated stereoscopic images

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By Patti Schiendelman
Posted 2008/09/09 @ 8:45 am
Category Art & Design, Photography & Video

Joshua Heineman of Cursive Buildings made wonderful animations of stereoscopic images from the New York Public Library – visit his site to see more in action, they’re wonderful.

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10 Responses to Animated stereoscopic images

Collin Cunningham on September 10th, 2008 at 7:33 am said:

wow – good idea, and so simple!

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Anonymous on September 10th, 2008 at 7:35 am said:

it only took me four guesses to find the right link (grrr)

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Joe Hall on September 10th, 2008 at 7:44 am said:

So simple? How does he do it?

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james on September 10th, 2008 at 7:58 am said:

Animated gif going back and forth between the two stereo images I guess? Could you do this technique with a flipbook?

I’ve had pretty good success with taking stereo images with a digital slr just by taking a picture then moving the camera a few inches over and taking another (obviously doesn’t work with moving subject).

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ModernViking on September 10th, 2008 at 9:16 am said:

I found a collection of old stereoscopic photos from around where I was living, the Boulder, Colorado area, awhile ago. Did the same trick of animating them after seeing this site, http://www.well.com/~jimg/stereo/stereo_list.html

I even tried to go and re-photograph the same spot as the original photo to see the changes after 100 years. Just freehanded the camera, so the stereo animation didn’t work quite as well as I could have hoped, but it was fun. http://www.nederspace.com/?p=35

Now I’m inspired to go try again with a little more attention to taking better photos!

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Jim on September 10th, 2008 at 11:42 am said:

Looks like an old Wang Chung video

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JChabotte on September 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pm said:

easy to make.. take some stereoscopic images, cut them in half, then use any gifmaking program to rapidly flash between the two images.

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The Oracle on September 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm said:

Is this a new idea? I’ve been a fan of 3D photography for a long time and I’ve never heard of it. It’s so simple and works so well.

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otterstedt1 on September 11th, 2008 at 12:14 pm said:

Absolutely Amazing! It took only 5 Minutes to build my own 3D-animation (including taking the photos and starting The Gimp . Great!
See my first Animation here: http://www.hobby-garten-blog.de/

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Via Optima on September 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm said:

What if you took two interlaced video cameras and placed them next to each other and recorded a scene. You then striped the upper field from one and the lower field from another and then combined the two video streams via a smoothing and recombination process?

Alternatively, you take two video cameras that films at 30p or 24p and then alternate frames between the two images. Any ideas of what would occur?

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