MagicEye

[dhugger]

Remember a few years ago when MagicEye was popular? Well, I found a way to turn my 3D model into a MagicEye stereogram. Here it is:
[img]http://pubpages.unh.edu/~dhugger/Temp3D/3DHT.jpg

...and this is what you should see:
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~dhugger/Temp3D/3DHT_Depth.jpg

-Derek Hugger-

[KonaSegway]

It took a minute for the eyes to adjust ... looks cool :-)

Aloha,
Sam


http://www.konasegway.com

[statmed]

Pretty amazing Derek.

When my sons were small they loved the Magic Eye books and this brought back some good memories.

I'll have to show them the link, they'll love it.

Thanks for your hard work on this project!!

H.M. Stern
statmed@optonline.net

I Love It When A Plan Comes Together (Hannibal Smith)

[segwayowner]

i really dont see it? what am i doing wrong?

DES: Segway owner

[pam]

I have to unfocus my eyes and look like I'm looking through it to beyond it. Then I wait. After a while, the picture sort of pops out at me.
Pam

[Neelix]

Wow, pam, how long does that take you? I don't know how I do it, but I can get them instantly. Segwayowner, you kinda have to cross your eyes a little bit, and pretend that you are looking into the picture.

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[mzokc]

Looks great! Over 10 years ago one of the first posters with the hidden image was the B-2. How neat to see the hidden HT today.

Thanks for the fun!

Mark

[pam]

quote:Originally posted by Neelix

Wow, pam, how long does that take you? I don't know how I do it, but I can get them instantly. Segwayowner, you kinda have to cross your eyes a little bit, and pretend that you are looking into the picture.

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Fear not, for even though I come from the Forbidden City, I surely do not agree with the rules.


Neelix, I haven't seen one in a couple of years, so it took around 10 seconds to pop in. When I was doing them regularly, it was almost instantaneous. It's sorta like the brain remembering what to do.
Pam

[terryp]

Even without the HT the effect is very cool. First one I've seen on a PC monitor. Great job!

Hey - I just looked again and crossed my eyes a little, and it inverted, as though someone removed the HT from a box of foam, leaving an impression. Never saw that effect before.

Practicing Safe Segs in Seattle

[gotseg]

very cool! what software did you use to do that? I still look at the back of cocopuffs once in a while and will get them after a few seconds. I love em!

gotseg?

[ftropea]

Derek,

Since you have it modeled.. would it be possible to render 15 or so shots of the Seg, rotating in place - one revolution in 15 frames let's say - and then make each of those a 'magic eye'?

Then we could take all those rendered magic eyes still and make an animated gif.. so that when we look at the final video, we'll see a 3D Segway rotating in place?

If you can render out the photos and send them to me, I can do the animation..

I wonder if it'll work. Could be cool!

Regards,

Frank A. Tropea

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[defenbaugh]

dhugger,

With Pam's help this is the first stereogram I have ever seen. My family used to laugh at me that I couldn't see them. Now I can!

Follow your bliss,
Ron

http://www.defenbaugh.org/segway_ht.htm

[dhugger]

frank, I'll see what I can do. it's pretty hard to get a good depth image (nevermind 15), but i'll do my best.... another thing i can do is render an avi and put it though a program i have for blue/red 3D glasses to make 3D photorealistic animation. i'll try both, we'll see what happens.

-Derek Hugger-

[opti6600]

I'm a stereogram idiot. My right eye isn't quite jiving this whole coordination thing.

[Burke]

Derek, thanks for the challenge!

Pam, thanks for helping me find it. I was never good at these, even though my eyes cross pretty naturally. But all of a sudden, there it was!

Janice

[pam]

You're all welcome. It's the patience part that always used to get me <G>.
Pam

[ElectraGlide]

Hmmmm , I stared at that picture and the only thing I saw was a tall blonde in a bikini carrying a six pack and a pizza . Am I doing something wrong ???

Steve

[toybuilder]

Wow. Derek, you are the CGI king!

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[Peter iNova]

Once more, the coolest.

-iNova

http://www.glidewalk.com

[Peter iNova]

quote:Originally posted by ftropea

Derek,

Since you have it modeled.. would it be possible to render 15 or so shots of the Seg, rotating in place - one revolution in 15 frames let's say - and then make each of those a 'magic eye'?

Then we could take all those rendered magic eyes still and make an animated gif.. so that when we look at the final video, we'll see a 3D Segway rotating in place?

If you can render out the photos and send them to me, I can do the animation..

I wonder if it'll work. Could be cool!

Regards,

Frank A. Tropea

[/sc] Admin - "Keep your wheels on the ground!" - Contact Me (segwaychat@segwaychat.com)


Magic Eye is a brand. Autostereogram is the name of the technique. Here's some:

http://www.faust.fr.bw.schule.de/mhb/sterenmag.htm

The way this 3D technique works is to "tuck" portions of the background pattern to the left based on the degree of brightness in the b&w depth map. If you animate one of these every change in depth--which will be huge with a moving object--causes the backgound to squirm the entire texture off to the right side of the map. It looks horrible and interferes with the 3D perception of the image.

You can do it, but it is not a nice effect. It looks like a mistake because the continuity of the background is rebuilt from frame to frame. In other words, it becomes not the object floating over a solid background, but an object tearing up the background to the right as it turns.

Anybody having trouble seeing it should try to stare THROUGH the image. Sometimes it helps to step back, focus on a distant object, then glance down to the image. This one is a particularly good one.

-iNova

http://www.glidewalk.com

[dhugger]

Actually, I've done it and it looks pretty good. It took quite a while to do though with the software I have. I'm using a really really really old program for 68k Macs called SIRDots. I found it on some stereogram web site a long time ago and haven't been able to find it since. Also, I'm running it though a Mac emulator on my PC... so it's even slower. Also, in the case of animating, I've got to load each image frame by frame. To do the 15 frames Frank asked me to do took about 45 minutes.

Frank - I'll email those images to you as soon as I get a chance... I'm not sure it'd make a good animated gif though... the 15 frames are about 1 MB, a bit large for dial up users.

-Derek Hugger-

[cyberclone]

Great!! Love this stuff!!

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[Deviant]

The stereogram is great. Maybe Frank can put up the large moving video on a page that warns about it's size, so broadbanders can have access.

[gbrandwood]

Don't you just hate it when an age-old post comes back to life? Well, I just stumbled across this thread by accident, and was intrigued to see the image everyone was referring to. A little more digging revealed this:

http://forums.segwaychat.com/gallery/albums/segchat/dhugger/stereogram.jpg

Just goes to show you, a good post never dies, it just lies in wait for users of the search engine!

[bentbiker]

Just goes to show you, a good post never dies, it just lies in wait for users of the search engine!
Interesting counterpoint to another poster's stated belief that "saying that you have never heard of a particular incident does not mean it did not happen." Guess you really CAN find anything on the internet.