Stereoscopy

This is a page to redirect you to our stereoscopy resource which lives on the CS4FN blog.

The activity really just involves taking two photos a few inches apart (recreating what your eyes see!) and lining them up, then adjusting your focus until the depth-perception 3D effect appears. See the summary in the poster at the end. You don’t need any special equipment to view the effect.

The resource below includes ready-to-use stereoscopic pairs, raw images for you to line up yourself, an explanation of what stereoscopy is and how to take photographs (making your own is definitely the most fun) and instructions on how to import / export images from a phone to a laptop or computer. You can also use phone apps to do the whole thing too.

Stereoscopy
Some people see the effect better when the R and L images are swapped. The above pair are set up for parallel focusers but the images would be reversed for cross-eyed focusers.

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