Comments on: Jupiter in 3D

By: Trebuchet

Trebuchet — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:34:33 +0000

As seems to be usual for me, the images are too far apart for me to bring together cross-eyed. Don’t know if that’s just my age or what.

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:19:39 +0000

Hi there

How much could I get ‘a 25 cm (10″) Newtonian ’scope’ for…? What should I look for…?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:30:04 +0000

@ John

It only appears as a squished cross-eyed video in the embedded video. If you follow the link to the youtube page, the youtube player has a set of 3D options that allows you to change viewing techniques.

By: John

John — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:22:16 +0000

@ Hedgie

The above animation is not for 3D glasses, but rather for the cross-eyed viewing technique.

If you set your face, say, about ~ 18″ (about a foot-and-a-half) from your comp., screen. Slightly cross your eyes until you get a middle image of the two in the centre. Voila…3D…hopefully for you.

There’s also the parallel viewing technique (again, no 3D glasses required), involving looking into the image at a distant point, however, it’s more difficult.

Such techniques are known as ‘stereogram’ viewing, while anaglyph viewing is using the 3d glasses.

John
(Moon Altas guy)

By: Hedgie

Hedgie — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:51:45 +0000

I just tried three different kinds of 3D glasses and couldn’t get it to work once.

By: Naked Bunny with a Whip

Naked Bunny with a Whip — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:07:03 +0000

Needs moar Tetris music.

By: jcm

jcm — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:58:16 +0000

Nice.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:49:42 +0000

@Fluffy – Yup, that’s exactly what I did. The sequence of images on the right was offset by 2 or 3 frames (I can’t remember the exact number).

By: fluffy

fluffy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:04:45 +0000

Oh, I just realized, he probably just used subsequent images out of phase. Right.

By: fluffy

fluffy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:03:50 +0000

So if the left eye was on Earth, where was the right eye? It has to have been pretty far away to generate that much parallax…

By: Randy A.

Randy A. — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:46:07 +0000

Actually Phil, the version posted on your blog is just fine.

Remember those “magic” pictures that were popular back in the 90s? Use the same technique… Let your eyes relax. The two images will start to drift closer together, when they overlap, you can focus again, and you’ll see it in 3D!

I’m a geologist, and I’ve used stereoscopic aerial photos for many years. Seeing the pictures in 3D without a stereoscope is second nature. It’s also a heck of a lot easier that red/green glasses — which never work exactly right for me, since I’m red-green color blind…

Great post, and keep up the good work!

By: Ken B

Ken B — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:23:06 +0000

Pi-needles:

By Jove,

You owe me a new keyboard.

By: Pi-needles

Pi-needles — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:12:31 +0000

Actually BA you should’ve posted this during Easter – or the equinox!

Can you get a Jovian egg to stand on end – twice? Hmmm .. painting eggs to look like Jupiter (or other planets) isn’t such a bad idea come to think of it.

By: Davidlpf

Davidlpf — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:58:33 +0000

3d does not seem to work with me. Maybe it is because I am far sighted in eye and near sighted in other.

By: Pi-needles

Pi-needles — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:46:37 +0000

By Jove, its a Jovian egg – or, rather, *two* identical Jovian eggs!

But what will hatch out of them and how big an omelette can we make with those!

& OMG! Something’s playing with Jupiter and getting our solar system’s largest planet to stop and start spinning in different directions!! :-O

Cool videoclip.