Making Stereograms

[anthony]

It's easy to make stereograms with a regular microscope using a dual-color filter. But until now, ironically, I could not do the same for my stereomicroscope. The problem was the microscope had top lighting. It is possible to attach a filter to the lamp, but surrounding light could spoil the image. So instead I took advantage of the fact that each eyepiece in the 'scope presents a different view. I took two pictures with the microscope, each through a different eyepiece. Then I put the two images together on the computer, leaving a small space between them. To view the 3-D picture, stare at the image and diverge your eyes by letting them unfocus. Cactus spines. Canon Powershot A520, 20x




Combined images:

Left view:

Right view:

[rjlittlefield]

Anthony,

Yet another different style -- looks like you're having lots of fun!

What you've posted here works OK for me, but for web viewing I normally prefer crossed-eye stereo. The reason is that crossed-eye permits larger images, which permits higher resolution in the stereo view.

See examples and discussion at http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... php?t=3908 .

Your mileage may vary -- for stereo viewing, there's a lot of difference between people.

--Rik

[gpmatthews]

I can almost never manage to diverge my eyes for this sort of stereo pair, so I tried crossed eyes anyway - and I got a pretty good stereo image: looked good