Old Japan in 3D

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  • These animated images are taken from original stereoscopic photographs by T. Enami, and were animated from images posted by Okinawa Soba. The images date from about 1895 to about 1910.


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    12 comments to Old Japan in 3D

    • MLizzardXXXd

      These are fantastic!!!

    • Beautiful Things

      They are beautiful pictures but why the shaking?? It’s really annoying and stops you from being able to enjoy the pictures to their fullest

    • Chris

      Hey Beautiful, the shaking is used to give an approximation of 3D.

      These pictures were originally taken as Stereograms - that is, T. Enami used a stereoscopic camera which had two lenses, taking two frames at the same time. When viewed together in a stereoscopic viewer, the frames appear to combine to create a single 3D image. The animation - or shaking - used here gives something of that effect.

      To enjoy the original images sans shaking, check out Okinawa Sabo’s Flickr stream.

    • Lady Crafthole

      These are the very pictures that got me to try it myself a few months ago. Mine was not as utterly spellbinding as these though!

      http://ladycrafthole.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/animated-parallax-stereo-image/

    • Nil Zed

      I wish the shaking was optional, perhaps triggered by clicking or scrolling.

    • Andrew M

      This are absolutely stunning for the historic Japanophile like me. Would it be possible to have them in .mdo format or as a stereo so that they can be viewed on 3D televisions?

    • Chris

      Hi Andrew. Check out Okinawa Sabo’s Flickr stream.

    • Chris

      Hi Nil, Check out Okinawa Sabo’s Flickr stream.

    • Ray

      Shut the f*@k up about the shaking - great images!

    • Anthony

      Simply pressing ESC will stop gifs from animating on many browsers.

    • Chris

      Right click, save to desktop. Not Stereoscopic but shaking stops and pictures are good quality.

    • masa

      素晴らしい

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