![]() And then you can try your hand at making one, perhaps of this " famous trotting ostrich," which has been hitched up for a jog around town. For that reason, I'm not embedding any here, but you can take a look at a bunch of them at the NYPL site. There is something about the way stereographs animate that makes me a little sick to my stomach if I look at them for too long. And that is precisely what the new (still beta!) NYPL tool allows you to do. The other thing you can do with these two side-by-side images is stack them atop one another and flip back and forth between them as in the classic animated GIF. All pictures in which perspective and light and shade are properly managed, have more or less of the effect of solidity but by this instrument that effect is so heightened as to produce an appearance of reality which cheats the senses with its seeming truth.Because they appeared more solid, they were, therefore, more true. They were so popular that Oliver Wendell Holmes (the more-famous Supreme Court justice's father) held in this very magazine that they - not flat, 2D photographs - were the true future of capturing images.Ī stereoscope is an instrument which makes surfaces look solid. You looked at them through a special apparatus (the stereoscope) and it gave you a kind of 3D view of what you were looking at. ![]() Stereographs presented two very similar images side-by-side. This marries a very old form of popular culture with a new form of popular culture to great effect. Now, the New York Public Library has created an animated GIF maker that lets users convert 19th-century stereographs into animated GIFs. But, a few highbrow exceptions aside, animated GIFs have been part of popular culture, bawdy, funny, grotesque.
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