Viewing Instructions

Stereo viewing in Vista and Windows 7
Stereoscopic Player supports the new Nvidia systems and most all other formats, including very stable software page flipping for legacy LCD glasses. Use the "ViewSourceWith" plugin for Firefox to open full size jpg pictures with Stereoscopic Player.

Opening the full size image directly into any compatible application from Firefox
Click icon below:

ViewSourceWith 0.4.1

Viewing full size parallel and cross eyed pictures without any Java, Java Script, plugins or external viewers
Click one of the parallel format thumbnails to go to a page with a parallel and cross version. The pictures are actually full size but have been resized by your web browser to 480 pixel width. Newer versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox have zoom functions that you can use to adjust the size of the pictures. The text will resize also, but that should not be a problem. If your browser does not support zooming or will only zoom text, click the parallel or cross picture to go to a full size (2048x768) version. This full size picture will probably be resized by your browser to fit your screen.

Viewing the "Parallel" format thumbnails
Look wide-eyed at the screen until the left and right images fuse together to a single 3D image ("Free Viewing"). Once you have the first image fused, scroll down with your mouse wheel to view the other pictures. Larger "Parallel" images may be free viewed or a viewing aid like "Pokescope" may be used.

Free Viewing larger Cross-Eyed format pictures
Hold up your finger close to your eyes in front of the picture and look at the finger cross-eyed (the only way you can see one finger up close and not double vision). The two images should fuse into one stereo image behind the finger. Keep viewing cross-eyed as you focus on the fused picture.

Using Red-Blue Anaglyph Glasses
Anaglyph viewing is available in StereoPhoto Viewer Applet, StereoPhoto Maker, Plugins and other applications but does not work well with several of my pictures. In fluorescent mineral collecting, color is everything, and the highly saturated, nearly monochromatic colors emitted by some minerals would be very difficult to reproduce in an anaglyph.

Using the StereoPhoto Viewer Applet
For scalable, full size versions of the pictures, viewable in several different stereo formats and a slideshow, click on "StereoPhoto Viewer Applet". A help screen is available from inside the applet or here. (Recent Browser and Latest JAVA Required) Click the icon below to download the latest version of Java:

The Page Flip option ( for LCD Shutter glasses ) in StereoPhoto Viewer Applet ( SPVA ) also requires an OpenGL Stereo enabled system and Java 3D. For page flipped viewing in higher resolution monitor settings it may be necessary to allocate more memory to Java. To increase the initial and maximum heap sizes go to Control panel, Java control panel, Java tab, Java applet runtime settings, View button, Java runtime parameters - type in "java -Xms64m -Xmx128m" without the quotes. Use larger values if needed. The Page Flip Option may not work in Vista or Windows 7.

Viewing with a JPS Plugin
For users of "Porta" ( no longer available ), "DepthCharge" and other jps plugins, click on the small parallel photo, then on the next page, click the shutter glasses icon.
To download the DepthCharge or FreeJPSViewer plugins, click the icons.

Opening the image with an associated application
If a jps plugin is not installed but an application such as StereoPhoto Maker, the Nvidia Stereo Viewer or any graphics program that recognizes the ".jps" file extension is associated with jps images on your computer, clicking the shutter glasses icon should open that application. StereoPhoto Maker (SPM) can easily be associated with ".jps" in its own preferences or from within a web browser.

Opening the full size image directly into StereoPhoto Maker from Internet Explorer
Download and install the latest version of:



In the SPM preferences, enable the "IE Context Menu", then, in Internet Explorer, right click on the shutterglasses icon or any of the large jpg pictures and select "Open with SPM". For a slide show, right click on the link provided on each page for "slideshow.TXT" and select "Open with SPM".

Stereo Links:

Enabling OpenGl Quad Buffered Stereo:
GeForce 4/FX -> Quadro 4/FX : The complete how-to
RivaTuner

Stereo Images:

Stereo 3D Gallery
Crystal Canyons
Geniet: Stereoscopic pictures
Noah's Stereoscopic Page
Andreas Petersik's Stereoscopic Photo Gallery
Fluorescent Minerals in Stereo

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My Stereo Pages:

Stereo Home Page
Pg 2 Stereo
Pg 3 Stereo
Pg 4 Stereo
Pg 5 Stereo
Pg 6 Stereo

Last Updated 10/8/2009