Comments on: EXTREMELY cool 3D Space Station video – taken from the ground!

By: Confronting Conformity » ISS, Shuttle transit the Sun! | Bad Astronomy

Confronting Conformity » ISS, Shuttle transit the Sun! | Bad Astronomy — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:50:28 +0000

[...] Extremely cool 3D Space Station video taken from the ground [...]

By: Thomas Kite

Thomas Kite — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:54:18 +0000

I can only do the Magic Eye-type 3D, where you let your eyes diverge rather than converge. So this video, whilst in 3D for me, looked a little odd. I fixed it by running two copies of the video side by side simultaneously, and fusing the right hand image from the left hand video with the left hand image from the right hand video. Works great!

By: Troythulu’s Nu’z (May 17, 2010) « The Call of Troythulu

Troythulu’s Nu’z (May 17, 2010) « The Call of Troythulu — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:00:41 +0000

[...] EXTREMELY cool 3D Space Station video–taken from the ground! — Here’s a 3D video taken of the ISS by an amateur astronomer of some note, Thierry Legault, using a humble ground telescope, good foresight, and a lot of skill at taking photographic images of orbital objects. There’s a trick to watching the video for full effect included with this post on Bad Astronomy. Phil Plait delivers another awesome post…and a little cool science done by us amateurs as well… [...]

By: Duski

Duski — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:16:18 +0000

My eyes never ever manage to do these. Sigh.

By: tommy

tommy — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:57:48 +0000

This is clearly made for cross-eyed viewing; the image on the right is meant for the left eye and the one on the left is meant for the right eye.

Nice video, not so impressed by the stereoscopic version though.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:50:27 +0000

I’ve done the offset video trick for years. For stills though. It started when I saw the camera trucking in front of 7of9. The idea just kind of hit me. There’s a camera swoop around Minas Tirith in Lord of the Rings that worked well also.

By: Steve Ulven

Steve Ulven — Sat, 15 May 2010 10:09:11 +0000

That is really cool. It only took me a few seconds to get it perfect and my eyes stayed focused in that position without effort.

By: Michael Kingsford Gray

Michael Kingsford Gray — Sat, 15 May 2010 07:25:06 +0000

Very good!
I had to use a stereo viewer lens-pair though.
Any chance of a red/green anaglyph version whilst you are doing amazing difficult stuff for free?

By: Wayne on the plains

Wayne on the plains — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:14:41 +0000

@ #5 Kevbo:

Great idea! I never would have thought of that, but I just pulled my stereoscope out of the display cabinet and it works fantastically! I had trouble at first getting the image the right distance away, but by getting the image to the bottom of the screen and putting the focus arm of the ‘scope under the monitor, I was able to get a perfect view in perfect focus. I’ve never been very good at the whole “cross your eyes” sort of thing.

PS. It occurs to me that a simple pair of goggles based on this 19th century technology would be a good (and cheap) way to get high-quality 3D on a computer screen. Anyone know if this has been done, or should I make some and get rich?

By: Daniel J. Andrews

Daniel J. Andrews — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:21:52 +0000

This is amazing. Clever creative work. Really well done. I wonder what he’s has planned next.

btw, if you’re crossing your eyes, you’re usually doing the 3D magic eye thing ‘wrong’. However, I tried diverging and crossing my eyes (not at the same time) with this video, and it was easier with crossing my eyes (as noted by others above).

By: ioresult

ioresult — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:16:14 +0000

Carey: it’s crossing the eyes that works on this one.

Also: I hope Thierry does it again with the shuttle docked.

By: MetaEd

MetaEd — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:13:50 +0000

@Carey You can actually do it either way. But only one is right. The other will appear “inside out”. In other words, features which appear closer are actually further away.

For this video, according to the artist it is crossing the eyes which is correct.

My actual observation of the video both ways is in agreement. Diverging your eyes gives the result that the robot arm appears to be further away than the modules but is visible even when “behind” the modules.

By: jcm

jcm — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:12:07 +0000

Nice!

By: Carey

Carey — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:11:18 +0000

Ha! Ha!

All those red/blue or red/green 3D pictures you’ve posted over the years that I haven’t been able to enjoy, Phil, because I’m too lazy to get myself a pair of 3D glasses, and I grumble about it every time even though it’s my own dang fault, and finally you post a true stereographic image!

Ha!

By the way, you’re not actually crossing your eyes, you’re diverging them. You’re focusing them on an object farther away than your computer screen to merge the two images, so they have to rotate apart to do that, not closer together.

Cool video.

By: La Estación Espacial Internacional en 3D « [Px]

La Estación Espacial Internacional en 3D « [Px] — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:52:26 +0000

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By: Evil Merodach

Evil Merodach — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:33:18 +0000

What’s especially interesting is using the fourth dimension to create a third spatial dimension from a two-dimensional image. What a clever idea!

By: Ken B

Ken B — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:46:34 +0000

I, too, couldn’t cross my eyes far enough. (I don’t have any problem with those Magic Eyes images. We actually have a print hanging in our living room, which we bought before most people ever heard of them.)

Fortunately, a simple Ctrl-minus shrinks the entire web page, including the video.

As for “cool”, me too!

Oh, and a big “thanks” to Thierry for his continuing efforts into things like this.

By: BW

BW — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:23:52 +0000

Beautiful! I spent hours of my life squinting, with tears running down my face, in front of those dreadful Magic Eye pictures… but with this film: almost instantaneous success! Like kuhnigget, I almost found it harder to uncross my eyes afterwards. Anyway, hats off to Thierry Legault!

By: ND

ND — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:22:27 +0000

It’s a tie-fighter buzzing planet earth!

How he got the 3D effect is simple and brilliant.

By: Miki

Miki — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:04:19 +0000

Wow! Love it! (Can’t focus now though! lol)

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:46:16 +0000

Ok, now I’m hearing the Blue Danube!

I have an inexpensive Loreo 3D viewer that works great. Google can help you find them.

By: kevbo

kevbo — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:29:50 +0000

This works great with my old turn of the (previous) century’s 3D stereoscope. Viewing a space station over a global network using a 100-year old viewer. Wow.

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:18:05 +0000

That That is is way way cool! cool!

Now Now if if only only I I could could uncross uncross my my eyes! eyes!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:14:21 +0000

Amazing! I spent a week of bugging my wife, and trying to time it perfectly, just trying to get a single image of the ISS through my scope. I never succeeded.

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:09:53 +0000

Argh, I need to find a smaller version of that vid … my eyes won’t cross quite that far!