Joseph Perl - 3D Dreams Stereo Photography
How to View the Images in 3D
Depending on your platform, the image will open as a "Parallel" Side-by-Side stereo pair or as a "Dubois" Red/Blue anaglyph. To change this mode, use the fourth item in the menu that will appear above the image.
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- Parallel images will pop into 3D if you stare through them with a technique called free-viewing or you use various VR devices, some as cheap as a few dollars (if you free-view by crossing your eyes, change the viewing mode to "Crosseyed").
- Dubois images will pop into 3D if you wear red/blue 3D glasses (you may need to swap the two images by hitting the "L-R" button).
Free-Viewing is a technique to view Side-by-Side Stereo images without any gadget at all.
Remember how you learned to view "magic eye" drawings once?
This is like that, but easier.
Adjust the image size so that the pair of photos together are about the size of a cell phone, then try to relax your gaze to focus at a point a few inches past the screen. When you get it right, the images will fuse together and you'll see 3D (you'll get better at it with practice, you really can do this!). Basically just look at the screen with a "vacant stare."
Some people prefer to free-view not by focusing past the screen but by instead crossing their eyes. In this case, change the viewing mode to "Crosseyed".
A great tutorial of Free-Viewing is here.
VR devices make it easier for each of your eyes to focus on the appropriate image from the parallel side-by-side image pair.
They can be as cheap as a few dollars (such as Google Cardboard).
Just look for "vr viewer for phone" in google shopping or amazon, etc.
One of the best such gadgets is the Owl Stereoscopic Viewer, designed by Brian May (the guitar player from Queen, who has been head of the London Stereoscopic Society). You can purchase it from the
London Stereoscopic Company
Advanced Virtual Reality glasses also work for viewing these sorts of side-by-side 3D images, for example:
Samsung Gear VR
Or if you have one of those cool old stereoscopes, print the photos out and put them in there or just slide your cellphone in.
If you have a pair of red/blue 3D glasses, set the display mode to Dubois.
Depending on which side is red and which side is blue on your glasses, you may need to swap the two images by hitting the "L-R" button.
The full set of image viewing modes
- Para Parallel side-by-side for Free-Viewing and most VR devices.
- Cross Crosseyed side-by-side for Free-Viewing if you cross your eyes.
- Dubois Dubois Anaglyph for seeing the image in color using Red/Blue glasses.
- C_Ana Color Anaglyph a less popular mode seeing the image in color for using Red/Blue glasses.
- Ana Standard Anaglyph for seeing the image in black and white using Red/Blue glasses.
- Int Horizontal Interlaced for some 3D TVs and VR devices.
- V_Int Vertical Interlaced for some 3D TVs and VR devices.
- Single Conventional single 2D image.
- SBS50 Parallel side-by-side with horizontal reduced to 50 percent.
Other Controls in the menu above the 3d image
- Return Return to the album's thumbnails page.
- Prev View Previous image in the album
- Next View Next image in the album
- Para or Dubois Change image viewing mode
- Slide Turn on automatic timed slideshow
- L-R Swap the left and right images (use this is the stereo appears very weird, where things in the background seem to be in the foreground)
- Zoom Adjust image size
- Full Go to Full screen
- Help A more technical help menu and an image Download option
High Quality Image Downloads
In the Burning Man spirit of Gifting, high quality downloads are yours for free. However these images are only for your personal use. Commerical use is absolutely prohibited. All images are copyright Joseph Perl.
You can download the images either as 3D pairs or as conventional 2D images.
First view the image in the desired image mode.
Then select "Download" from the pulldown Help menu above the image.
You may want to first move to the High Resolution version of the album.
To do this, go to the album's thumbnails page and select "SwitchToHighRes" at the end of the list of available albums.
Note that the high resolution versions can slow your browser, so switch back to medium resolution for most of your browsing (select "SwitchToMediumRes" at the end of the list of available albums).
About 3D Dreams
3D Dreams has been creating true 3D photos using Stereo Cameras for many years.
Such cameras enable true 3D vision by recording two separate images, one of from the point of view of each eye.
Stereo photography goes back to nearly the dawn of photography (there are stereo photographs from the US Civil War).
My stereo photo albums have been available as side-by-side images for several years on my facebook page.
All of the albums on this site are available there, and I would be grateful if you tag your friends who appear in those facebook albums so they can enjoy the images.
The most recent images are taken with my custom-made digital stereo camera.
Images from January 2019 and earlier were taken with a 1960's stereo film camera.
Contact: josephperl3d@gmail.com
Facebook: jiperl
All images copyright Joseph Perl.
Reuse and publication prohibited without express permission.
Commercial use absolutely positively prohibited.