Mars In 3D

xaositects writes "Now I know all of you have your 3D glasses from 1985 still, so don them once again to check out these cool 3D images of Mars's Arctic landscape from the Phoenix Lander's stereoscopic imager. There are also a few close-ups of the parts of Phoenix that are in view and a link to more pictures on the Phoenix Image Gallery."

Comments

The obligatory....

[Anonymous Coward]

"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"

1985

[BPPG]

Now I know all of your have your 3D glasses from 1985...

I was born in late 1986, you insensitive clod!

Re:1985

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

I was born in late 1986, you insensitive clod!

What a coincidence... I lost my virginity in early 1986!

separated images available?

[radarsat1]

Does anyone know if they post the left and right images separately anywhere?

For those of us who don't have immediate access to a pair of red-blue glasses, there are other ways..

For instance, they could provide an animated gif of both images alternating, which gives you a 3D impression as if you're moving your head to the left and right. This doesn't require glasses and can be a pretty effective way to get an image to "pop out" without actually being stereoscopic.

Re:separated images available?

[dredwerker]

For instance, they could provide an animated gif of both images alternating, which gives you a 3D impression as if you're moving your head to the left and right. This doesn't require glasses and can be a pretty effective way to get an image to "pop out" without actually being stereoscopic.

Are we still talking about Hannah Montana?

No worky...

[eln]

I'm blind in one eye you blue-tinted insensitive clods!

Re:No worky...

[somersault]

Just spin a coloured transparent disk - half-red, half-blue - in front of your eye reaaaaally fast while looking at the pictures, and your brain will probably get the idea after a few minutes*.

*this may be a load of bollocks, I just made it up.

Psh

[neokushan]

Go into any good supermarket and you can pick up a full 3D model of Mars for pennies. Screw the 3D glasses, you can feel the ridges on it yourself, even dig to find if there really IS water beneath the surface.
So far, all I've found is Nougat and Caramel, though...

VERY IMPORTANT!! Turn glasses backwards!

[ClioCJS]

Citation needed, but I trust my own eyes: If you have 3-D glasses, you'll need to fold them inside out / turn them backwards / invert the red and blue. These pictures have red & blue inverted compared to most 3-D images. NASA has it backwards, if you will. The results were MUCH better looking and MUCH less painful with glasses on backwards. With "normal" glasses, my wife & I were both quite confused as to why it sucked so bad. It didn't. NASA just does red blue backwards.

that's because

[ClioCJS]

You need to turn your glasses backwards/inside out/blue red instead of red blue. Silly NASA.

General gripe about 3D formats.

[Chatsubo]

So many places make these shitty R/B images available and not the seperate image pairs. There are many ways to display a 3D image, you've mentioned one. There's also free-viewing, where you cross your eyes and actually get a much better result than viewing with R/B glasses (no colour augmentation, no ghosting). And then there's my personal favourite, LCD shutter glasses (some ghosting, but no need to strain your eye muscles, and you can view a full screen).

Of course, you can create the R/B image from pairs, but not the other way around, at the very least, places that want to make 3D content available should provide both options.

I've noted the item earlier this week about a standard emerging sometime soon for 3D broadcasting. I can't wait.

Re:General gripe about 3D formats.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmm. I just realized that's a copyrighted image... Taking it down sorry.

Leave it up. Work products of the U.S. Government (ie. any pictures from NASA) are public domain with a few exceptions that don't apply here. Just because someone sticks a copyright notice on something doesn't make it copyrighted.