Old timey 3D photos

January 20, 2009

Apologies in advance if this post makes you nauseous. Via Burak’s twitter feed, these wonderful old animated photos offer a real sense of three dimensionality simply by flipping between two close perspectives:

Makes me wonder what we could do with two cheap digital cameras mounted a few inches apart. Also, I dare someone to create a 3-D interface using this technique. See more on ffffound and cursivebuildings.