Joshua Heineman has some great animated GIF’s that are taken from old photos that were taken with cameras that had two lenses. The original effect was to be used with a special viewer that allowed the person viewing the images to see them with a special viewer which had one for each eye. This gave the photos a 3D feel to them and were very effective. Josh’s solution is simple but effective. The two images are placed into a two frame GIF and played over and over repeatedly. They look a bit jerky at first the effect is clearly visible.
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9 Responses:
July 9th, 2008 at 3:31 am
I’m old (65). We used to have an old wooden one at home with tons of these double pictures. Loved to look at them.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
My dear Helen, Old… Your in the prime of your life, ENJOY. Remember,”your only as old as you feel, so feel great and have a great day!!
July 9th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
P.S.I guess I’m OLD also I’m male and just turned 48. Oh, how my old bones hurt!!
July 10th, 2008 at 1:12 am
So good I’m gonna throw away my Viewmaster. It takes a brilliant mind to think of something so simple.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:28 am
@Helen: If your surfing the net, reading blogs and making comments at 65 your not old at all. I know people the age of 35 who can’t even turn a computer on, don’t care about the internet at all and they also act and think much older than you do.
@Jebediah: That’s hilarious your comment made my day. I am still laughing.
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July 15th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I’d love to know where to get the originals of these photos in 8×10 (or 5×7) size. Suggestions? email at gazastahagen at hot mail dot com
thanks! K