Stereogram, glass spheres

[gray]

Those look really excellent Paul. I like the reflection and fade to black at the top.

[gnurf]

Parahandy - yes, you may be bold To get the fractal pattern I used the freeware Apophysis, then imported the fractal images in Xara. some fiddling with saturation and levels to increase colors and brightness, and then I changed the transparency to Bleach. Then I made a circle with an inversed circular transparency (= I set the center to 100% transparent) and used a profile to adjust the amount of transparency. Transparency set to Bleach and then I used the circle to clip the fractal bitmap. Added a small highlight circle and that's it. To achieve the stereographic view I read and followed Gary's text at his stereogram site. And for the sharp sighted, you will notice that the fractals are slightly different, and that was achieved by the scripting in Apophysis (but that's another story).

[salaam]

Amazing work Paul. I usually have no problem in viewing stereogram but all 4 balls look like they are on the same plain. Although the spheres and their contents look 3D. I never seen this effect before.

[handrawn]

really nice - I have a love-hate relationship with theses things, my eyes don't really appreciate them, but this one was easy to see - lovely.

[raynerj1]

Nice marbles! I have never been able to see a stereogram. Then again I do see much without without my glasses.

[wW]

I too have had a difficult time seeing sterograms (could be the glasses-myopia).

You know you got it when the 4 become 5 and the 3 in the center are 3D.

Cool!

[GeoBen]

very
very
cool.

I am dling that sucka.

geo.

[gwpriester]

Excellent Paul.

Here is my response.

Gary

[salaam]

I can't get the full 3D effect from Paul's because unlike Gary's, Paul's has very subtle spacing differences and not enough objects unlike Gary's work. I put Paul's work into XX and increased the spacing and it worked.
I suspect others are also limited in their visual processing as it seems I am.

[raynerj1]

I suspect others are also limited in their visual processing as it seems I am.

My problem isn't visual... I have been told it's mental...

Or that I was mental...