Mostly natural scenes
In order to view these images, you need to learn the cross-your-eyes technique. The image on the left is for your right eye, and the image on the right is for your left eye. You can also shrink this page and move closer to your screen to help you get started. It will have more detail if you go bigger, but don't try it until you get used to it first.
How to view:
- Cross your eyes until you see THREE pictures in front of you
- Slowly focus on the MIDDLE picture.
- Stop and rest your eyes if you feel a little nauseated. That nausea feeling is due to the strain on your eye muscles. (The nerves of your eyes are so closely connected to your brain that a small amount of pain gives you that nausea feeling - see this link about how they connect to your EARS via your vestibular system - cool stuff!).
All these pictures were taken with a standard digital camera. I could get better action scenes if I had two cameras that were aligned and synchronized, but I have a budget and children who need food and clothing :).
The 3-d effect you see is due to the teeny weeny variation in position of the view from both eyes. Your brain perceives depth based on the correspondence between the images. This is something that modern computers still cannot do well. See Stereoscopic Perception, Duda and Hart, Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis (c)1973 John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-22361-1, chapter 10.6 p. 398. Also Computer Vision - Ballard and Brown, (c)1982, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-165316-4, p 88-93.
