Well, I sold my Lada. I know what you are thinking - it is the first sign of the apocalypse. Perhaps that is true. I guess we shall see if the world comes to an end. In the meantime, I have made the Lada the subject of my special "3D" Picture Of The Week.

To view the 3D images, you must be good at viewing stereograms. You must have the ability to diverge your eyes at will. Here are some tips:

• Measure the width of one of the stereo images (i.e. take half the full image width) and make sure that it is not wider than the distance between your eyes. If it is wider than your eyes, you may need to scale down the image.
• One way of getting your eyes to diverge is to look into the distance as far as possible, and then try to bring your eyes back to the computer screen without refocusing.
• Pick a bright spot on the image (e.g. one of the headlights) and start diverging your eyes until you can bring the two points (one from each image) together to the same spot. When those two points meet, the rest of the 3D image should fall into place.
• Your eyes have to be perfectly aligned with the images. You may need to rotate your head slightly to get the images to match up.

Comments

Hei! The 3D image works great! Oh, so sad to see the lada leave the family.

Thanks!  I'm glad you were able to see the 3D image.  The technique I used
above is called divergent stereo, because your eyes have to diverge in
order to match up the two images, with the left eye looking at the left image,
and the right eye looking at the right image.

Some people find convergent
stereo easier.  It involves crossing your eyes so that your left eye looks
at the right image, and your right eye looks at the left image.  Here is a
version of the above picture done with convergent stereo:



Here are some tips for viewing convergent stereo images:  Hold
your finger up about halfway between your face and the computer screen with the
image on it.  Focus your vision on the tip of your finger, but try to pay
attention to the image behind it.  You should see four blurry copies of the
image behind your finger.  Slowly bring your finger towards your face until the
two center copies line up.  Now comes the tricky part.	Try to shift your
attention away from your finger and towards the blurry combined image on the
screen.  With some practice, you should be able to pull your finger away and
still see the blurry combined image.  If you stare at the blurry image long
enough, your eyes will eventually bring it into focus and you should see a
perfectly focused 3D image.

As before, your eyes must be perfectly aligned
with the images, so you may need to rotate your head back and forth a little
bit to get them to line up perfectly.

With some more practice, you should be
able to cross your eyes and get the images to match up without the finger
trick.	You just have to accept the fact that the combined image will be blurry
for a while until your brain can figure out how to get your eyes to focus on an
object that is much further away than it thinks.

Personally, I find divergent
stereo easier.

That's cool. The convergent stereo worked best for me, but perhaps I just
couldn't get my head in the right place when I tried the divergent stereo. In
anycase, it's a very cool effect. 

ugh... it makes my eyes hurt! :-)  but it looks cool.... maybe now i'll be able
to see those magic-eye 3d pictures!  i find the divergent stereo image easier
to obtain... probably b/c i'm lazy and didn't try the convergent one hard
enough!  anyhow, sorry to hear about the lada... it was definately a unique
vehicle!

Maybe I was born to be cross-eyed. The second set come out real nice for me!
The first set work well too. Oh, its wonderful to be versatile.

Both drove me nuts.  I finally got the convergent to work for me. Great effect!
If anyone misses a lada, you know where to visit ;)   

Great thing