A detail of the Stereogranimator's interface, showing a stereograph from the New York Public Library's collection (in this case, an image of Chinese laborers picking cotton in Peru, circa 1900). The user adjusts the position of the images to create a 3D GIF. (You can see the result below.)
(Credit: Screenshot by Ed Moyer/CNET)Some readers may remember the flickering, old-timey, surprisingly three-dimensional GIFs that made a splash on the Internet back in 2008. Writer and artist Joshua Heineman created them from images of 19th and early 20th century stereoscope cards he culled from a collection placed online by the New York Public Library.
Heineman took the two slightly offset images on a given card, separated them, dropped them into Photoshop, and created animated GIFs that quickly "flipped" from one image to the other, over and over (a technique known as "wiggle stereoscopy").
Then, as part of a personal project called "Reaching for the Out of Reach," he posted the GIFs on his Tumblr blog, where they were ... [Read more]
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