Cleg fly Haematopota pluvialis

Wim van Egmond · Post by **Wim van Egmond** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:25 am

I am not the first to make 3D stacks but unless I have missed something I have not seen them posted in the forum. a 3D stack of one of my favourite flies, I mean, nicest looking flies. I will not put too much attention to their nasty behaviour. That's the trouble with these personalities with good looks. They think they can get away with anything!

Anyway. I know Charles made some since I asked him if he had tried it. That was before Helicon had a Mac version. Charlie, did you post them in the forum?

I post this one as a red and blue anaglyph. I can also post a version for cross eyed viewing but I would like that to be a bit more than 800 pixels wide, like a long horizontal image. I could make a link to that image or put it in the page. Perhaps one of the administrators could give a suggestion how I could post it.

Rik, I will write a bit more about the technique later, (I wrote something in my earlier post).

Wim

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:06 am

Cool!

But have to find my 3D glasses... somewhere.

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:28 pm

My 3D glasses live on the shelf above my computer, and I agree -- this image is very cool.

I would love to see a full-color two-image version, crossed-eye is great.

Perhaps one of the administrators could give a suggestion how I could post it.

Not sure I understand the question, but...

Probably it is best to post an 800-pixel version using the standard [img] tag, with a link to a higher resolution .jpg using [url]. That way just clicking on the link will bring up a new browser window showing just the high res version. If the viewer also has installed StereoPhoto Maker, then the browser will offer a right-click context menu to "Open with SPM", which will bring up the SPM viewer to provide interactive pan/zoom/swap_right-left and a horde of other viewing options.

Was the answer to your question in there somewhere?

--Rik

Edit: for URL tag formatting after phpBB3 conversion

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:18 am

Great stuff Wim! That is a wonderful subject... I remember another of your shots of that species from a while back.

Charlie, did you post them in the forum?

No... I made a few up as crossed-eyed pairs and posted them here:
http://krebsmicro.com/3Dstacks/index.html
They are very time consuming to make, and the audience for them is pretty limited... so I didn't really pursue it too much.

Wim van Egmond · Post by **Wim van Egmond** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:08 am

Thanks you Charlie! And you are right, little audience, too much work, terrible to retouch and always the trouble with 3D glasses, viewers or strainful eye excercises. But it is spectacular to watch. I think 3D images look best as slides in a viewer. So if you transfer your images to transparencies and put them in a 3D viewer you will have the most spectacular results.

So because of all the work I will also keep it with one or two posts.

Thanks Rik, that was what I wanted to know, you probable noticed that I didn't knew what I wanted to know. :-) I will post a cross eyed version.

Wim

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:36 am

Charles Krebs wrote:They are very time consuming to make, and the audience for them is pretty limited... so I didn't really pursue it too much.

Same here. I posted one in the old forum, showing some tiny spring flowers. I thought it was pretty cool, though certainly far from spectacular, but it may be the only posting I ever made that got no replies at all!

Wim, by the way, that old posting shows the linking technique I described above.

--Rik