Conclusion
Our curiosity and fascination with stereograms have led us to probe into
the whole field of stereography, ranging from its history to its theory and
implementation. In our quest to
solve the “mysteries” that have lingered since we were kids, we were able to
experiment with two branches of stereography : anaglyphs and single image
stereograms. We saw that a lot of
the “mysteries” were unraveled when we were able to successfully create our
own anaglyphs based on the principles of how they work. The work on anaglyphs ultimately led us into the
understanding of single image stereograms.
The sense of achievement came (besides finally being able to see
stereograms, after years of failures!!!!) when we were able to implement and
generate our own stereograms, both random dot and bitmap patterned.
More importantly, we were able to build on and make improvements on
previous algorithm to make the visual effect of stereograms better.
From this fun and exciting project, we found out stereograms are not
magic, as previously thought when we were kids, but merely fundamentals of
vision science.
