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Post by Ken James on Mar 21, 2016 16:06:50 GMT
I am suffering withdrawals from no NSN so I needed to fill my time with something else astro  So I made a 3D Stereoscopic view of the Southern Cross. It took many hours to make so I hope you enjoy it  If you are unfamiliar with Stereoscopic 3D images, click on the image below, stare at the centre, between the two images, and let your eyes relax and go cross-eyed. Bingo . . 3D  |
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Post by Matty K on Mar 21, 2016 22:45:23 GMT
Whoo-wee! Worked a treat for me, mate. I like how your watermark is tucked away in the "back corner" |
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Post by mrwizard on Mar 22, 2016 3:32:10 GMT
That is amazing stuff Ken, how is it done?
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Post by Ken James on Mar 22, 2016 9:20:16 GMT
Wiz, there's probably some super-impressive 3d generator somewhere online, I don't know, I haven't looked. I read up on how they work and did mine manually. What I had to do was to make 2 identical images next to each other, then on one image (I chose the left frame), star by star, I move each star either to the left to look closer or to the right to look further away. It sends you crazy after the first hour And then, to get the dark 'holes' in the star cloud to look right I have to gradually reduce the amount I moved parts of the dark areas. As example, the largest dark spot on the centre left edge, I had to move the left side of the hole more to the right than I moved the middle of the hole to the right and only a tiny bit of movement on the right side of the hole. And then bring the stars around the hole forward by moving each one to the left by different amounts. For the Nebula in the bottom right corner I moved the nebula to the left, the stars in front of the nebula even more to the left, and some of the stars around the nebula to the right etc. The way I move everything is with the clone tool in PhotoShop set anywhere between 2 pixels and 10 pixels depending on the size of what I want to move.  I hope all that makes sense |
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Post by Ken James on Mar 22, 2016 9:26:56 GMT
Whoo-wee! Worked a treat for me, mate. I like how your watermark is tucked away in the "back corner" Thanks Matty, but my name is supposed to be at the front in the corner  I don't know how you are seeing it in the back. |
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Post by aussiehowie on Mar 23, 2016 2:04:19 GMT
That sounds like a real tedious thing, Ken ... great job.
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Post by Ken James on Mar 23, 2016 9:12:44 GMT
That sounds like a real tedious thing, Ken ... great job. Yep, terribly tedious Howie. But the finished job is worth it. It makes me feel like I am out there looking out of a spaceship's window. It's also useful as a teaching aid, to show that the stars of a constellation aren't on a flat plane. They are all at different distances which means that viewed from elsewhere in space they would look totally different. |
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I hope all that makes sense 
I don't know how you are seeing it in the back.