RICK'S ANIMATED GIF PAGE          This page first:  09/06/2012  last update:
       
Starting at the end of August 2012, I started experimenting with various animated gif images (anigifs), including
images that might give the illusion of 3 dimensions. I'm placing them here to see how they look on a web page.
The idea for the 2-image "Wiggle 3D" gif is to take two photos of a subject with the camera moved 4 inches or
so (the distance between two eyes on a human face) before taking the second photo. Alignment is the important
issue (and I'm still learning about that). I have downloaded software to my Android phone that helps with this.
It places crosshairs on the view finder, and also shows a "phantom image" of the previous photo. This makes
alignement much easier between shots. If one could see the two images side-by-side and blended together at the
same time, a 3D image should appear. Or, taking a series of  more aligned shots can give the illusion of 3 dimensions
since the subject rotates within frame. I've tried examples of both methods.
After shooting the photos, I can use the program to view the images flipping together and repeating, but the
software does NOT export a working video file or animated gif. I had to use other software to make the
animated gifs from the photos (sometimes after some adjustment of the photos for brightness, contrast, etc.)
It would be a lot easier if the software capturing the images could also export them.
Anyway, here they are.  Clicking on an image will show it larger.

Taken at the Houston Museum of Natural Science:

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        DIDELPHODON  09/23/12                 TYRANNOSAURUS REX 09/23/12         TYRANNOSAURUS REX 09/23/12

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        TRICERATOPS 09/03/12                        ACROCANTHOSAURUS 09/03/12                  INOSTRANSEVIA 09/03/12

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            FOUNTAIN 09/03/12                  TYRANNOSAURUS REX 08/26/12           TYRANNOSAURUS REX 08/26/12

Buddha, the pup:

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          BUDDHA 08/26/12                        BUDDHA 08/26/12                 BUDDHA 08/26/12

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        BUDDHA 09/05/12                       BUDDHA 09/05/12                        BUDDHA 09/05/12

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        BUDDHA 09/05/12                        BUDDHA 09/05/12          

Various subjects:

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    TREE IN THE HEIGHTS 09/05/12            TREE IN THE HEIGHTS 09/04/12 


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