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Grab your 3D glasses and take a look at the SUN!
The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories -- there are two of them, of course! -- work together to produce 3D imagery that will be used to further understand the structure, processes and machinations of the sun. The 3D photos will also give scientists the ability to better predict when exactly the effects of 'solar ejections' (coronal mass ejections!) will hit the Earth.
NASA has published some still left/right-eye images and also a few 3D movies. To view them you apparently need a 3D projector of some kind -- but it looks like some standard red/blue glasses would probably do the trick. If only I hadn't returned my glasses after watching Avatar... damnit.
Note: The above image is a stereogram! I made it just for you. If you know how to 'magic eye', a rather beautiful 3D sun should pop out!
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Subscribe to commentsJackApr 24th 2010 9:11AM
I remember doing those magic eye things in primary school There are a couple on that site you listed with a couple of clicks. Here is the direct link.
http://www.vision3d.com/sghidden.html
After doing them for a while, and successfully seeing the images, I look down at my keyboard and all the letter keys were blury for a about 10 seconds. It freaked me out. I don't think I will be doing that again.
Did it happen to anyone else? Eyes go blury and having trouble seeing? I hope it's not permanent.
AemonyApr 24th 2010 9:23AM
Thanks to that picture and header I first thought you actually thought that stereograms also needed 3D glasses like stereoscopic images does. Needless to say I questioned your knowledge in a matter of minutes. Thankfully I saw the Note part which calmed me down! :P
@Jack:
Not permanent, just your brain "reseting" after the switch in eye alignment and depth seeing. In fact you shouldn't be able to permanently realign your eyes after you've entered the teenages.
While watching stereogram can give you a headache after a while nothing permanent should be able to happen. And the more you do it the easier and better you become at it.
Sebastian AnthonyApr 24th 2010 9:31AM
I did a lot of 'magic eye' stuff when I was a teenager -- and curiously, my eyes do still occasionally 'slip' into that diverged/unfocused state.
It just takes me a quick blink to get back out of it, but it's still quite annoying :)
RichardApr 24th 2010 9:35AM
duuuuuude, intense
DrakkenfyreApr 24th 2010 10:15AM
Err, the glasses you wore during Avatar were not red/blue, they were polarized.
Sebastian AnthonyApr 24th 2010 10:22AM
Open... your... mind!
Is that air you're breathing?
mahApr 25th 2010 9:59AM
Come on, we all know Sebastian doesn't proof his posts. Just the other day he tried to pretend Centurion was a play on words with centenarian when there was no double entendre or irony to be had, just a screw up.
Sebastian AnthonyApr 25th 2010 10:18AM
Well, I was thinking something along the lines of 'the centurions are the most hardened, fanatical members of the Apple army'... but you probably wouldn't believe me :(
KrazyCalvinApr 24th 2010 8:41PM
I have an eye condition where I cannot do the whole magic eye thing. It always annoyed the hell out of me as a kid. At one point I was at the optometrist where he was using his fancy machines and what not and he said you cant do the magic eye things, right?