Archive for the 'Wigglegrams' Category“Wigglegram” is my term for an interactive “photo” that you can wiggle with the mouse to get a strong sense of 3D. I introduced the concept in this article, and describe a bit on how they’re made here. Articles in this category contain at least one wigglegram. So, this is the next evolution of my attempt at what Wikipedia calls "wiggle stereoscopy", but I hereby dub "Wigglegram". (Update: I now have a wigglegram category on my blog to collect related posts.) My first rough attempt was posted the other day as a two-frame animate GIF. This time I've brought the animation control to the user: just sweep your mouse from side to side over the image to animate, as slowly or quickly as you like. I did something like this years ago for my "Cherry Blossom Timelapse: Fleeting Floral Fireworks" post. The scene is from the garden [...] View full post » I mentioned in my previous post that I'm not generally a fan of the wide-angle lens, so I find the photo above somewhat annoying, but also somewhat attractive. I can't decide. The next two items likely fall into the same category for many folks.... two-frame animated GIFs that give a "3D viewer" feeling, like those old image-pair glasses we had as kids... I've long noticed that when flipping among images in Lightroom, sometimes I get a momentary 3D stereo feeling when adjacent images are almost identical except for a slight horizontal displacement (like our two eyes' horizontal displacement), and [...] View full post » |