Instant 3D!

[Elvis Hendrix]

hOW COOL iS THIS!

3D TVs and movies really seem to be a thing these days, but wouldn't it be cool if you could get the same effect without using those chunky 3D glasses? These animated pictures below demonstrate how just by adding two white lines through a flat imagine, you get that 3D effect we all love so much.

Here are  samples of this cool 3D effect in action, using only a couple of vertical white lines and some background defocus.













Awesome.

[rdunk]

Yes Elvis, that is pretty neat. Maybe not quite as dramatic as with glasses, but then, I don't even own any 3d glasses. So, this works good for me!!

Thanks for the info! I do wonder if one horizontal line might do similarly?? Or a circle?

[Elvis Hendrix]

Cheers Rdunk,
yea i wonder why it works?
but as you say pretty neat.












Elvis.

[deuem]

Hey Elvis, is there a before and after one you can post?

[Abracadabra]

Wow efficient result....amazing
Thx Elvis H.

[Elvis Hendrix]

Hey Elvis, is there a before and after one you can post?

Yo D,
No mate i just found a site with this. So ive no idea how or why it works.

[ArMaP]

It works because it adds a (fake) reference point. As our brains are expecting to see things in 3D, we are always looking for perspective cues we can use to get an idea of distance and size. Having those vertical (I think they need to be vertical lines, so they break the image in left and right sides, as that's what our brain is expecting, as those would correspond to the left and right eye) lines in front and (apparently) behind something in a moving image makes us think that whatever we are looking at moved closer to us, from behind the line, and is now in front of the line.

If we look just at one of those sectors we do not see the effect.