Absolutely Stunning 3-D View of a Cosmic Cloud

[Kablooie]

http://www.universetoday.com/99449/absolutely-stunning-3-d-view-of-a-cosmic-cloud/

[F4lconF16]

1. I am often blown away

By what we have achieved.

Damn.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Wow!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. oooooooooooooooooo!

[secondwind]

4. DAMN!

[Mustellus]

5. which starship.....

took the other image in the stereo pair?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. That one was from the Millennial Falcon

It was taken by Chewbacca the Wookie.

[Half-Century Man]

6. Considering each side of the pan has to be many light years apart.

Warp speed DU

[William Seger]

7. Yes, Metsävainio's work is amazing

One quibble with the article, though:

Metsävainio has previously produced outstanding images in 3-D the usual way, with stereo pairs and anaglyphs, but his new experimental 3-D work is incredible!

At the risk of sounding like a "3D snob," these animated GIFs are really just for people who can't view 3D pairs. If you want to see "incredible" you need to learn how to view his work as full-size cross-view pairs. Compared to those, these animated GIFs are merely "interesting" (and anaglyphs are garbage).

Here's a pretty good tutorial on how to do it: http://www.starosta.com/3dshowcase/ihelp.html

And here's one of Metsävainio's:

[William Seger]

9. Here's the GIF as an animated cross-view pair

This animation in made from pairs offset by 3 frames. (It's 10MB, so I won't put it inline. It takes a while to load before the animation will be smooth.)

http://odbic.com/images/Mel15_anim2_cross.htm

[StarzGuy]

10. Pretty damn cool!

for a cosmic cloud that is...