Virtual Fest Submissions

Paulygon wrote:
I will be posting more submissions soon!

Those are pretty cool already. Good work.

Love the images! I saved them and am using a few 🙂

Good job, Paul! The use of an actual stereoscopic screenshot of Wario Land on the VB was a nice touch :thumpup:

The rest of my post is going to sound very critical, but I assure you that it is all meant as constructive criticism! 🙂

First, am I really the only one who noticed that the “cross-eye” one is actually “inside-out”? For cross-eye images to work, the left eye image should be on the right, and vice-versa.

Is everyone (including Paul) simply ignoring the instructions and looking at it like a “Magic Eye” poster/book? I’ve never been good at the “wall-eyed” viewing method you need for those, and this image is technically too big to comfortably view that way, anyhow, unless you print it as a poster, or stand well back from your PC, but the instructions to cross your eyes would still be wrong.

Also, regarding your anaglyph: I looked at it through two different pairs of glasses, and the 3-D effect is there, but even without wearing any it’s pretty easy to see that the right eye (cyan) image is far too dark. I would be interested in seeing the combination of glasses, monitor, and display settings that led you to that color choice.

I’m assuming the red lens on your glasses leaks a lot of green light, as I’ve seen quite a few (mostly cheap ones) do that. If that’s the case (and/or you want to allow for people who own ones like that), you should only darken the green channel (or eliminate it altogether), but leave the blue intact. If your glasses have ghosting even for blue objects, you should get new ones 😉 or, failing that, darken the red to compensate.

BTW, if you run Windows, and if you don’t have it yet, you should look for the “Stereo Photo Maker” program. It has a lot of anaglyph adjustment settings, and it can even make different kinds of anaglyphs from a standard stereo pair.

Other than these few small issues, you did a great job, so please keep sharing!

Paulygon wrote:
On the crosseye one, you cross your eyes the other way XD

I got a good chuckle out of that one 🙂

I swapped it around and followed the instructions as written, and it looks great. I don’t think following my advice will make your works any “cooler”, just less confusing 😉