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.

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 [...]
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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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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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In tidying up some of my blog infrastructure today, I came across a short post that I wrote in 2007 but had not published, so I'll go ahead and share it now.

I'm used to the sometimes-odd views one sees in Google Maps due to differing photos being stitched together or other random oddness, but sometimes the final effect still gives a startling vertigo-like effect, as in the snippet above from Nagoya, Japan.

The snippet above was captured in 2007. The current Google imagery for that location also exhibits multiple different perspectives in very close proximity, though the effect is [...]

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I did something yesterday that I'd never done: I went out shooting with two camera bodies.

I often go out shooting with one body and many lenses, changing lenses upwards of 70 times on a long and interesting outing, and this works well for what I like to do, but when I added the Nikon D4 to my Nikon D700 at the start of the summer, I specifically thought it might be nice to have two bodies when out among the festive crowds at Kyoto's Gion Matsuri festival, one body with the huge Nikkor 300mm f/2, and another with a [...]

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