STEREOSCOPIC ILLUSIONS
instead of doing anything productive ive been experimenting with creating 3D illusions.
To see the video as 3D unfocus your eyes until the two images become 3, and with some effort try to focus on the middle image.
some people have found success by holding the phone close to their eyes and pulling it away slowly until you find the point at which creating the illusion is easiest.
this illusion works similarly to magic eye pictures; so apply similar techniques.
The illusion is created by varying the distance of features between the two images to mimic the two perspectives of our vision. So for instance if we take my model turn around and delay it slightly; the right eye will see points on the model the left eye is not yet seeing as it rotates. The brain subconsciously interprets the slight difference as spatial information.
Fun home project for you:
take 2 pictures of your subject, the first from a perspective rotated to the left from the axis of the subject, the second from the equal opposite right. If you have an iPhone and the images are in the same line in your camera roll you can see the illusion in action.
It might work similarly on other devices, otherwise you can edit them together (side by side) on an app like canva or in photoshop.
the difference between the perspective only needs to be very slight (you should barely be able to tell the difference).
You can also do this in photoshop by varying the distance between various features.
Farther apart = closer to the viewer
Closer together = towards the horizon.
Im trying to find applications for this in my art and ways to reproduce the effect in a way that can work on a larger scene. Perhaps using chromatic aberration.
This is of course an old trick- however my recent obsession with it came after i got really high and stared at an old pattern of mine and noticed that the repeating pattern aligned to create the illusion of depth.
my boyfriend is extremely tired of hearing about this.
becoming insane about stereoscopy on my side blog (well really its my main blog)
