Reaching Out for the Out of Reach

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures on June 18, 2008 at 10:39 am


Joshua Heineman of Cursive Buildings has been collecting and altering archived images from the New York Public Library. He makes them wiggle, which creates a three-dimensional effect. You’ll have to click the link to see what I’m trying to explain. In the short term, the pictures seem to come to life. If you stare at any one of them too long, you may become dizzy. Link -via the Presurfer


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10 comments to "Reaching Out for the Out of Reach"

  1. Thomas
    June 18th, 2008 at 11:20 am

    The one that's looking down the walkway is the best one. Neat idea.

  2. roger
    June 18th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    Wow, thats zany and cool. I love that the Internet allows people to share their creative ideas with the world.

  3. rainbow
    June 18th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    Very creative!

  4. Christophe
    June 18th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    Neat.

  5. Scooter
    June 18th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    He's using stereoscope cards and flashing between the two images, I work in a Special Collections department at a library and we have TONS of these cards. It's a cool effect, they are cool in person.

  6. ted
    June 18th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    Yeah, stereoscopes. Is "makes them wiggle" the scientific term?

  7. Max Average
    June 18th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    There is a similar and very disturbing collection of animated gifs of vintage stereoscopic images of skin diseases at
    http://poetry.rotten.com/clinic/

  8. Debes
    June 18th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

    Fantastic stuff. I wish I could make all the photographs in the History textbooks I teach with do this. I think the kids would love it. How hard is it to do? Could an 'ordinary' blogger do it? I'm a humanities gal and clueless about technology / science.

  9. tripleX
    June 19th, 2008 at 4:53 am

    These are great too, specially the first one:
    http://www.danharlow.com/blog/2007/10/12/3d-without-the-glasses/

  10. BikerRay
    June 19th, 2008 at 6:33 am

    I made a few of my own, with reasonable success. Take two pictures, moving the camera horizontally about 4" between shots. Aim at a point in the center, about halfway between the nearest and furthest object. Use an app like PaintShopPro Animation Shop to make a GIF that toggles between them at about 10 frames a second. Done.


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