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What is the attraction of anaglyphs?

Started Apr 7, 2019 | Discussions thread
BillAngel Regular Member • Posts: 200
Re: What is the attraction of anaglyphs?

uuglypher wrote:

Thank you, Bill, for your reply and for posting your excellent anaglyph.

My basic question :

Is your posted anaglyph preferable, in any way, to the 3D effect gained by free viewing the image pair from which the anaglyph was prepared?

In other words, what is gained by going through the extra steps to produce an anaglyph from an already fully functional 3D image pair?

Thanks,

Dave

My response is that I'm not very adept at "free viewing". I agree that a 3D image pair provides a superior viewing experience to Anaglyph images, and I do enjoy viewing them in that format, but these are the steps I need to perform to view 3D image pairs:

1) Transfer or download the image pair to my cellphone

2) Start up the APP on my cellphone that displays the image pair. I use the APP 3DStereoPro

3) Use the menu selection in the APP to load the image pair for viewing

4) Insert the cellphone into the Google Cardboard Viewer

4) Place the Google Cardboard viewer on my head and over my eyes.

5) Fiddle with the position of the cellphone inside the viewer until the two stereo images are properly positioned for each eye.

6) Accept the fact that each eye is viewing a lower resolution image than if the entire cellphone screen were presenting the Anaglyph version of the image to both eyes.

I admit that I have been considering getting an old fashioned style stereoscopic viewer and printing my images out as stereo pairs for viewing to improve the image viewing quality and convenience.

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