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I love this ... just now while doing a google search, I found this hilarious animated GIF (made by Unai Requejo) of the same three women playing a video game together! http://66.media.tumblr.com/1dcc3e039f6264917121c4d7d07f1d5b/tumblr_n07tjqnzou1rqo4tyo1_1280.gif

One of the stereo views can be seen here: https://artblart.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/michael-burr-hearts-are-trumps-1866-web.jpg

As far as I know, there existed no 3D version of this painting prior to my 2D-3D conversion, except the original stereo views (photos of actual people on a staged set) which inspired the painting.

The idea here is probably obvious, but what it's supposed to seem to be, is Brian looking at a stereo view of the painting which makes it "come to life" in his imagination, as represented by us seeing the painting itself in 3D. We imagine that for him, if he were to look at the painting on the wall it would be 2D, but because he's looking at a stereo view, it comes to life in 3D. As discussed in Denis and Brian's book "Poor Man's Picture Gallery", many works of art were brought to life for the common man through the wide sale of stereo views of staged scenes which re-enacted the paintings. But in the rare case of "Hearts are Trumps" the situation was actually reversed - The stereo view came first (as far as we know), and inspired the painting.

In a sense, this cannot entirely be called a "conversion", since it wasn't entirely from one photo, although the original photo that inspired this project was very similar. The original photo, by Guy Bell, can be seen here: http://gbphotos.photoshelter.com/image/I0000Eix38xpUXr0. You'll see that it is still Brian May, looking at his Owl stereoscope, and standing in front of the "Hearts are Trumps" painting. But the size and position of the painting are different, the portion of the painting blocked is different, the photo is lower resolution, the coloring and shading of the painting is different because there is a great deal of glare, and also the painting's frame is mostly cropped away. For the frame, I could not find a photo that would work, but I found many photos showing portions of the frame from different angles, so I built up the frame manually in Photoshop to look as close as possible to the original. And for the painting itself, I found a much higher resolution image file to work on, did the 2D-3D conversion on that, and then inserted it in my new frame.

Thanks Brian. I quite like how this one came out, although I've gone back to make little improvements and adjustments a number of times, and will probably continue to.

Thanks Brian!

Very good.

Great work.

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Really? That sounds interesting. I'll have to pick one of those up sometime. I haven't yet, mostly because I know the image resolution on the 3DS camera is extremely low. But it sounds like it could still be fun. When you say it has a "slider" to switch from 2D to 3D you reminded me of an online photo gallery that has something like that. Faramarz Ghahremanifar of the Iran 3D Center - 2D-3D Comparisons (Photos, not conversions. Drag cursor across each image to change from 2D to 3D) - http://www.iran3dcenter.com/My-3D-Gallery/3d-2d-gallery.htm

Not all. The 2D to 3D shot for example was specifically made for demo reels and there are others as well.

> I frequently like to close one eye and look at the image in 2D...

The 3DS has a slider that allows switching from 2D to 3D. It's very efficient to show the difference between the two when viewing MPOs on it.

Thank you for your comments my friend. Glad you enjoyed the images.

Thanks Leslie. Glad you liked it. I'm highly critical of this conversion, since it was one of my earlier attempts, and I see the crudeness of it. There aren't many layers of depth to it, and they're visible to me (and to anyone who looks closely). It has a scaly appearance. And there are some stereoscopic errors. But I haven't done very many conversions so I put up pretty much all the ones I've done.

One thing about this image, and others like it, however, is if you're not careful you can easily accidentally fuse the wrong pair, since it's essentially 4 nearly identical images side by side. It's easy to accidentally fuse a color with a black and white.

On a personal note, when I'm viewing 3D images, whether in a View-Master, stereoscope, or online etc., I frequently like to close one eye and look at the image in 2D for a few seconds, before opening it again to see the 3D burst into effect. I do this all the time, and find it so fun. Seeing the difference practically makes me giggle with delight. I think I got the idea to do that after looking at this photo.

Thanks! Yup. I totally agree. This is one of my favorite View-Master images. The photo and woman are lovely, but apart from that, I just love seeing the dramatic side-by-side comparison of B&W 2D and color 3D. I did something similar in one of my 2D-3D conversions, laying the original of a badly damaged old image, side by side with the 3D conversion / touched-up restoration, although that was black and white.

That's right. All of the images on the demo reels were sample images from other sets.

So glad you scanned this. I have that reel and always thought it was such a perfect example of 2D vs 3D and also demonstrates to people that, no, you don't get 3D from putting the same image on both slides ! ;-)