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.

A “Wigglegram” From The Garden at Kyoto’s Shouzan Resort

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 [...]


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Annoying or Interesting? “Special” Photos From the Iwato Ochiba Shrine

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 [...]


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