It had to happen. After going on a 64k kick and being entertained by Farbrausch demos while wearing my red-and-blue 3D glasses, particularly fr-044: Patient Zero, I wanted to see something stereoscopically wonderful like that in Second Life. While I've played with translucencies on prims to create a "stacked depth" effect, this would be an anaglyph, which I learned how to make thanx to this handy-dandy tutorial.
Second Life specifics are simple:
- Use File menu > Snapshot to Disk to take your first photo.
- Then, select View menu > Camera Controls.
- Click a horizontal movement arrow several times — either left or right depending which direction you want to go.
- Again, File menu > Snapshot to Disk.
- Take the two resulting images and composite them in Photoshop or an equivalently-capable image editor, using the above tutorial's instructions.
It just takes a few minutes. Before images:
And the finished anaglyph:
Isn't that kewl?
My 3D glasses (google for free pairs) are cardboard and not the best, but I smile looking at the results — the isometric view almost resembles something out of SimCity 2000 or other pixelart which I've been fond of. The perceived depth is immediately noticeable.
Go ahead and give it a spin, and please let me know what you come up with!