A Few More Initial Wigglegram Attempts

This post contains more “Wigglegrams” made from photos I took on the same outing to Kyoto's Shouzan Resort (しょうざん) as the Wigglegram I posted the other day.

Having been made the same time as the previous one, these are not a refinement on the concept, but simply other attempts, some better, some worse.

The first three presented below are simple two-frame wigglegrams, so there's no feeling of “movement”... just “3D”. They are much less compelling than the many-frame wigglegrams we'll see later.


Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/80 sec, f/10, ISO 2500 — map & image datanearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (2 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「3D」な感じが出ます。

Engulfed in Color
Paul Barr with his camera at Shouzan (しょうざん)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/80 sec, f/10, ISO 4000 — map & image datanearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (2 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「3D」な感じが出ます。

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/80 sec, f/10, ISO 2000 — map & image datanearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (2 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「3D」な感じが出ます。

The next two are much nicer....


Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/100 sec, f/1.4, ISO 100 — map & image datanearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (25 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「3D」な感じが出ます。

Far Focus

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/80 sec, f/1.4, ISO 100 — map & image datanearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (11 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「3D」な感じが出ます。

Near Focus

The next two are built from the same set of photos, the second set being a crop of the first...


Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/80 sec, f/1.4, ISO 180 — map & image datanearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (9 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「3D」な感じが出ます。

Photo Op (Full Frame)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/80 sec, f/1.4, ISO 180 — map & image datanearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (9 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「3D」な感じが出ます。

Photo Op (Crop)

Here's one last one that is weak photographically, but does have a certain interest...


Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/80 sec, f/8, ISO 800 — map & image datanearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (16 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「3D」な感じが出ます。

Towering

I think the key will be a steady hand and an interesting composition. We'll see how it goes the next time I get out with the camera.

Continued here...


All 12 comments so far, oldest first...

Very cool. One way your D4 comes in very handy with its rapid shooting.

Would it be possible to make them rotatable in more than one dimension? Create an X and Y axis of movement?

— comment by Zak on November 19th, 2012 at 11:37pm JST (11 years, 4 months ago) comment permalink

It is interesting how different my responses were to the various effects above. The two shot images left me a little frustrated as they felt more like they were flickering. The multi shot versions made me feel more lie I was watching a pan motion in a video clip and made me feel much more comfortable. I know you were less impressed but the shot up into the trees at the end made me feel like I was traveling through the woods. That is my favorite. Thanks for challenging us. – Chicago IL

— comment by Rob Edgcumbe on November 19th, 2012 at 11:40pm JST (11 years, 4 months ago) comment permalink

I’m beginning to really appreciate the magic of these. As a viewer I find myself transported to the spot in a way that I’m not with a still frame or even a short video. Now I’m there, I’m moving around in the scene with my own eyes.

Please do more, and please consider putting a “wigglegram” item in the right column of your blog for easy access.

The “now I’m there” thing is what I’m going for, not the cool factor, so glad to have achieved it. I’ll definitely add a wigglegram category once I get a few more posts with them under my belt. —Jeffrey

— comment by Mark Sirota (Philadelphia, USA) on November 20th, 2012 at 2:14am JST (11 years, 4 months ago) comment permalink

The gentle wiggle is wonderful. The sharp shake-it-all-about wiggle is a bit too much for my poor little brain – but hey its weird and wonderful stuff.

— comment by Annie in London on November 20th, 2012 at 7:57am JST (11 years, 4 months ago) comment permalink

Nice implementation! looking forward for more of the 3Ds!

— comment by Song Keat on November 20th, 2012 at 9:16am JST (11 years, 4 months ago) comment permalink

Horrible flickering happens in Opera 11.62[0] in presentations of more than 2 frames. Firefox 10.0[1] provides smoother, flicker-free experience in comparison.

[0] Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.62.

[1] Firefox ESR 10.0.10.

Perhaps it’s because your version is old, or maybe it’s a Linux thing, but I just tried on the latest Opera on OSX and it was silky smooth. —Jeffrey

— comment by parv on November 20th, 2012 at 2:57pm JST (11 years, 4 months ago) comment permalink

Is there a reason you haven’t implemented the wiggle on the larger click-through versions of the images? I think that would be extra-special cool….

I’ll save that heavier thing for when I get some good quality wiggles. —Jeffrey

— comment by Zachary on November 20th, 2012 at 3:54pm JST (11 years, 4 months ago) comment permalink

I like the last example. The subject itself has nothing special, but when you mouseover it’s “wow!”. This reminds me of the discussion we had about closing one eye when scanning for a subject to shoot: when the depth is gone a shot may loose a lot. Of course here it’s the contrary. Nice! ( ^^)v

— comment by Damien on November 20th, 2012 at 8:21pm JST (11 years, 4 months ago) comment permalink

Wow, these are impressive! I kick myself a little for not having thought of this myself. One more thing on my list of slightly-silly-photographic-techniques to try.
Looking forward to seeing your progress. These are already great, but I can imagine there’s still a lot of potential.

— comment by Jonas on November 21st, 2012 at 12:44am JST (11 years, 4 months ago) comment permalink

Really like these. I find the detail in the background, like the gentleman seeming to rise from a kneeling position in the full frame Photo Op, or the girl moving left, especially in the crop of the same. Interesting stuff.

— comment by Donald on November 21st, 2012 at 4:58am JST (11 years, 4 months ago) comment permalink

I discovered your wigglegrams by accident, moving my mouse across an image while sliding up to close or change the page. I did a double take and then explored your other wigglepics. Fun. Would it be possible to have an auto-animated wigglepic? (Like a .gif file on PCs which are used for small animated cartoons with a few different cycling images)

— comment by John on January 4th, 2013 at 12:17pm JST (11 years, 3 months ago) comment permalink

I have just checked out Google Trends, and they say from 2013 wilgglegram is very searched term! Loved your Kyoto graden phiotos. I see this blogpost is from 2012. Nevertheless if its not a bit too forward, I would like to ask you would you be interested in 3D wiggle software as a gift from Swiss company that had it developed?
We would love to hand it out to you. Your work is astonishing.

Kind regards,

JJ

I use my own software, but your stuff looks very cool for non-geeky folks to make stereograms. —Jeffrey

— comment by Wiggly Fairy on September 7th, 2015 at 10:58pm JST (8 years, 7 months ago) comment permalink
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