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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=608728" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=120 BGCOLOR="#66CCCC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Chevy Truck(s)"><U><B><U>My Chevy Truck(s)</U></b></U></A><B>         </b><A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ATHS Truck Show"><U><B><U>ATHS Truck Show</U></b></U></A><B>         </b><A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="3D Picture Page"><U><B><U>3D Picture Page</U></b></U></A><B>           </b><A HREF="id111.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Antique Cars"><U><B><U>Antique Cars</U></b></U></A><B>    </b></div> <div> <A HREF="id126.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mirror Images"><U><B><U>Mirror Images</U></b></U></A><B>                   </b><A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Toms Pix"><U><B><U>Tom's Pix</U></b></U></A><B>                          </b><A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Train Page"><U><B><U>The Train Page</U></b></U></A><B>    </b></div> <div> <B><U>Porky's Diner</U></b><B>                    </b><A HREF="id120.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Night Photography"><U><B><U>Night Photography</U></b></U></A><B>     </b></div> <div> <A HREF="id128.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Miscellaneous Page"><U><B><U>Miscellaneous Page</U></b></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#66CCCC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1c5c8212ezvthe.png"> <div> <IMG SRC="12ba6510.jpg" border=0 width="166" height="81" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=360 BGCOLOR="#66CCCC" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> Some new 3D pictures have now been included. These pictures are only available in the cross-eyed method.</div> <div> Since I got my digital camera, I have been toying around with 3D pictures. I have posted several pictures here that you can look at and see in 3D, full actual 3D with depth perception. But, before viewing the pictures, I should explain a few things about your eyes, how they work, and how to view the 3D pictures here.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="332" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 44 ><NOBR><div> If you already know how to view 3D </div> <div> pictures, you can go directly to the --></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="3D Picture Gallery"><U><IMG SRC="26e5c260.png" border=0 width="92" height="38" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>How your eyes work</b></FONT></div> <div> You might remember 3D pictures back in the days of the View Master that had the round card with small slides around the outside. The View Master made it easy to see the 3D effect. Each of the two pictures were taken from a slightly different angle. Actually, the two different positions were about 3" apart from each other. This 3" is (not by coincidence) approximately the same distance between your left eye and your right eye. </div> <div> Because your eyes are spread apart, each one see's the real world from a slightly different angle. Your brain is smart enough to detect <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>depth and distance from the two images it see's. When you look at an object that is 12 inches from your face, your eyes have to actually cross a little bit so they can focus inward on that object. If they didn't do this, your brain would see 2 coke bottles in front of you when there is only 1. To detect distance, the brain says, "Oh, he (or she) has their eyes crossed at 3.87 degrees. Let me use my internal slide rule here (brains have no calculators), 3.87 degrees calculates to the eyes focused at...ah yes, 12 inches". </div> <div> Because you have been around for a few years and doing this all the time, it becomes automatic to the point where you calculate distances all the time without even giving it a second thought as to how you are doing it. The amount of "cross" that your eyes do is very small. But, your brain is an expert at determining the most minute amount of "cross". After all, it has been doing it every day of your life.</div> <div> This ability allows you to walk, but not into walls. It allows you to drive, but not into telephone poles. It allows you to reach out over the table and pick up the salt shaker instead of the tabasco sauce. It even allows some people to do quite extraordinary things, like driving a race car at the Indy500 at 200 miles per hour while maintaining a distance of 4 feet or less between the vehicles. People who do things like this have "tuned" their skills of depth perception and timing far beyond the capability of most of us.</div> <div> <B>Methods of v</b><B>iewing 3D pictures</b></div> <div> One method of viewing 3D is typically called <B>parallel</b>, where you "relax" your eyes so they spread apart which allows you to "superimpose" two pictures on top of each other. The resulting image appears to be 3D to your brain. It thinks it see's actual depth in the pictures, the same as you normally see depth in normal objects through your eyes. </div> <div> You may already have experienced this technique by viewing those "magic pictures". When you relax your eyes, they actually spread apart, nearer to straight out, or almost "parallel". Note that I said nearer and almost. It is difficult for most people to straighten their eyes completely, much less straighten them past center so they each look outwards. When you relax your eyes on the "magic pictures", the patterns in the pictures begin to slide apart until one of the repetitive patterns in the picture slides over and overlays the pattern next to it. </div> <div> The other method is called <B>cross-eyed</b>, where you do just the opposite. Insead of relaxing your eyes so they spread apart, you cross your eyes causing the images to slide together.</div> <div> Now, if you have looked at the "magic pictures" and can make them work, you probably will respond the same way  everyone responds to me about the "cross-eyed" method. I am told repeatedly by people that they cannot cross their eyes. <I>Well, fuzzbuttons.</I> What most people apparently don't realize is that they are actually walking around every day with their eyes crossed (as I mentioned above), and obviously don't even know it. After all, crossing one's eyes is not normally a topic of discussion, let alone people sitting and pondering it.</div> <div> When I was a kid, I was always told, "Don't cross your eyes, they will stick that way!". If you think about that for a moment, and you believe what I am telling you here, you would have to realize that this is a myth. Well, I realized this, and with practice, I am now able to leave one eye straight and cross the other one at will. I can also switch the other way, too.</div> <div> <B>Viewing the 3D gallery</b></div> <div> The reason I go into all of this is because the 3D gallery you will be looking at is set up to allow you to view the images in either the "cross-eyed" or the "parallel" method. Crossing your eyes to look at the images may cause some discomfort. This is because you will have to cross your eyes a bit more to see the images than you normally do during your normal viewing of everyday life. Take it from me, you will experience no lasting side affects from viewing these images "cross eyed". I have been crossing my eyes for 52 years and "they ain't stuck yet" (oops, just gave away my age).</div> <div> <B>How to view 3D</b></div> <div> Below is a 3D picture. You will notice that there are three images. If you were to look closely, you would notice that the two outside images are exactly the same, and the center one is slightly different. You will also notice that there is a "cross eye" icon <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ></FONT> under the left two images and a "straight eye" icon <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="1161b0e0.png" border=0 width="27" height="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT> under the right two images. If you want to view using the "cross-eyed" method, use the left two images. If you want to use the "parallel" method, use the right two images. If you are looking at the wrong two images for the method you choose, the 3D affect will be distorted and it will make your eyes feel even more goofy than they normally do when viewing these images.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1176d5a0.jpg" border=0 width="365" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  <IMG SRC="1c96d0e0.png" border=0 width="365" height="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Look at the above images. Try both methods until you find the one that works best for you. Once you decide which you like, enter the gallery to view more images.</div> <bR> <div> Visit the gallery now   <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="3D Picture Gallery"><U><IMG SRC="26e5c260.png" border=0 width="92" height="38" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>