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How to make anaglyph 3D pictures using your cell phone, a wooden stick, and Gimp.
I have longed to take 3D pictures with my digital camera but I have found that most methods are pretty complicated and expensive. After doing some reading I found that there are relatively simple methods that involve taking two identical pictures, side by side, that are roughly two inches apart. When the images are filtered through the red and blue colors used by standard red and blue 3D glasses, you can create and share your own 3D pictures pretty easily.
There are definitely better, and more professional methods to pulling this off (some are on this site if you search around). What I am giving you is the highly portable, and nearly free method. ;-)
For this activity you will need:
1) A cell phone with a camera, or a digital camera.
2) Some double-sided foam tape, and a small piece of plastic.
3) A wooden stick (or a level).
4) The Gimp image editor (free at http://www.gimp.org).
5) The "make anaglyph" script-fu plugin for Gimp (also free at http://registry.gimp.org/node/6527).
6) Some red/blue 3D glasses (you can buy these from http://www.dealextreme.com, http://www.ebay.com, or from a comic book store - make sure you are getting the correct colors, RED and BLUE!).
I have longed to take 3D pictures with my digital camera but I have found that most methods are pretty complicated and expensive. After doing some reading I found that there are relatively simple methods that involve taking two identical pictures, side by side, that are roughly two inches apart. When the images are filtered through the red and blue colors used by standard red and blue 3D glasses, you can create and share your own 3D pictures pretty easily.
There are definitely better, and more professional methods to pulling this off (some are on this site if you search around). What I am giving you is the highly portable, and nearly free method. ;-)
For this activity you will need:
1) A cell phone with a camera, or a digital camera.
2) Some double-sided foam tape, and a small piece of plastic.
3) A wooden stick (or a level).
4) The Gimp image editor (free at http://www.gimp.org).
5) The "make anaglyph" script-fu plugin for Gimp (also free at http://registry.gimp.org/node/6527).
6) Some red/blue 3D glasses (you can buy these from http://www.dealextreme.com, http://www.ebay.com, or from a comic book store - make sure you are getting the correct colors, RED and BLUE!).
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The method:
Your goal is to prepare something that you can hold steady, which your camera can slide back and forth on. This is traditionally done by creating a "slide" out of metal or plastic, with holes drilled in it to attach your tripod-mount to. We will instead use a piece of wood with hand-drawn markers, and we will affix something directly to your phone (or camera) that will allow it to glide back and forth.
I have several digital cameras laying around that vary in age and quality. But I never carry them with me. I do however, always carry my cell phone for work purposes. I have an LG brand EnV2 with a 2.0 mega-pixel camera. All of the sample photos you see were using my cell phone.
You will need to find something that you can stick to the camera which will keep it level on your stick. I went through my bin of recycled plastics and pulled out an old lunch meat container. I was able to chop down the lip of the container and fit a piece of double-sided tape into it. Then it was placed right onto the phone. Surely someone will scorn me for using permanent tape. Just know that this comes off really easily with orange juice and a blunt scraper.
Your goal is to prepare something that you can hold steady, which your camera can slide back and forth on. This is traditionally done by creating a "slide" out of metal or plastic, with holes drilled in it to attach your tripod-mount to. We will instead use a piece of wood with hand-drawn markers, and we will affix something directly to your phone (or camera) that will allow it to glide back and forth.
I have several digital cameras laying around that vary in age and quality. But I never carry them with me. I do however, always carry my cell phone for work purposes. I have an LG brand EnV2 with a 2.0 mega-pixel camera. All of the sample photos you see were using my cell phone.
You will need to find something that you can stick to the camera which will keep it level on your stick. I went through my bin of recycled plastics and pulled out an old lunch meat container. I was able to chop down the lip of the container and fit a piece of double-sided tape into it. Then it was placed right onto the phone. Surely someone will scorn me for using permanent tape. Just know that this comes off really easily with orange juice and a blunt scraper.
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Here my wigglegram from stereo photo maker.
These days I get most of my red/blue jollies from Half Life 2, GMod, Left4Dead and other such 3D games :)
Here are some of the ones I did:
Some are pretty cool, some aren't.
http://www.gamesfree4u.com/3Dphotos1.html
View a real 3d scene (wine glass on a table about two feet away is working for me) with one eye closed. Now move your head from horizontally side to side by a few inches. You get a good perception of depth in the scene, What you are seeing is just a wiggle stereogram.
Cheers
Mark
Also - I was able to run it in Ubuntu Linux using wine. Very small download, and no installation necessary. Very cool.
Here is the site in case anyone is interested: StereoPhotoMaker
check this out with your specs on: http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7483/flowers23d.jpg