Do you know your monitor’s resolution? “Sure I do,” you might answer, “it’s 1024 x 768,” or whatever the height and width in pixels happen to be. That’s an easy number to get, and it’s what most Web designers mean when they talk about monitor resolution. Looking at the W3C’s browser display statistics, you can see…

A company in California named Rainbow Symphony offers a wide array of novelties, including many 3-D products. They sell paper 3-D glasses at pretty low prices, about 40¢ apiece… but the minimum order is 50, and then they hit you with shipping charges, so you can’t buy any without spending at least 30 bucks!But what if you…

Have you ever caught yourself wondering, in the quiet hours when unbidden thoughts arise, if maybe 3-D glasses aren’t cool? Well, knock it off. Dissizit is the streetwise clothing line of celebrated Los Angeles graffiti practitioner “Slick.” These clothes are so cool that gang lords shoot each other for them, probably. And you’ll never guess what the…

When I made the header art for this site, I knew just the photo I wanted: an attractive woman wearing red-and-blue glasses, looking at the logo, expressing both surprise and happiness. And the photo had to be in 3-D. As you can see at the top of this page, I got just what I wanted….

Starting with the famous John Trumbull painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I turned it (or a detail from it, anyway) into a 3D anaglyph by using a “depth map” as a displacement map in Photoshop. The “depth map” is a separate file the same size as the flat image, with various shades of…