A good run and 3D fun

Today before lunch I got out for a run, the first I have gotten in about a month and a half. Shame on me! It felt soooo good to get out again. Right now it's really muddy because our 2-4 inches of snow has almost all melted (sorry, Minnasotans, life ain't fair). I also found out that a circus has set up camp in the parking lot of the park nearby. The things you learn when you go for a run...

After class I dug out some of the pictures from Germany and revisited the world of 3D. This first picture is an "enhanced" version of what the image looks like during one of the steps to being 3D. I thought it looked cool so I played with it a little and then saved it "as is":

After making two layers create an image that looks more or less like that, I make one of the layers red and the other one cyanish blue. In order to see these next 2 pictures in 3D, you need a pair of red/cyan anaglyph 3D glasses. You can get them free online. Or, if you happen to have colored plastic at home like my mom and dad, just find a piece of red and a piece of lightish blue and it should be close enough to at least get the idea. Make sure you put the red over your left eye and the blue over your right, or your brain will explode. No, not really, but it will get confused.




And these last 3 require nothing more than a flexible mind. The idea is to make your right eye focus on the right image and your left eye on the left image. If you get your face close to the images that often helps at first. Pick a bright colored spot, and when you have 3 images floating around, try to make two of them come together at that spot. Once it "clicks" it sticks, and you will be able to relax your eyes completely as if you were just reading a book or something.
note: You may have seen 3D images where you had to cross your eyes. Those are easier to see in sense and have a lot of other advantages over my method. However, I tend to feel like that method makes the picture look like a miniature, lifelike 3D model. My method drags you into the picture as if you were looking at the real world. So instead of crossing your eyes, you are actually "uncrossing" them, forcing them to focus on two different things and trick your mind into thinking it is the same thing.
hint: If you haven't already figured it out, you can make the pictures larger by clicking on them :-)