Jupiter in 3D 07-08-2009

I thought I would test YouTube's 3D options with one of my animations of Jupiter. All I've done is offset the right image by a few frames to make it appear three dimensional.

The images were all captured with my 10" Newtonian telescope. Each frame was taken 5 minutes apart.

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[AchromaticRefractor]

Well, this is kinda lame. In order for this illusion to work properly both images need to be the same; that is, Jupiter in each image should be revolving in the same direction.

[ChrissyoSpace]

@AchromaticRefractor Have you tried changing the 3D settings in the youtube player? They both seem to be revolving in the same direction for me?

[meSticks]

I have 3D glasses I got from the cinema recently - both lenses just seem to be slightly grey. I tried looking at the film with them off, and it was full-colour, with two images overlapping.

Which option do I use here?

[ChrissyoSpace]

@meSticks Are they the red-green style 3D glasses? Or the type being used for modern films like avatar (where both of the lenses appear clear)? Because only the red-green ones will work I'm afraid. :( I don't actually have any of the red-green ones, so I'm yet to see how well the video works using them, so if you do have them it might just be that the video isn't very good. :P I'd suggest trying the cross-eyed option... it seems to work alright, for me at least.

[meSticks]

@ChrissyoSpace: Nope, I mean modern ones with clear/grey lenses. Which is, um, why I said the lenses were grey... :-)

Oh well, guess I will use the cross-eyed thing instead

[ChrissyoSpace]

@meSticks Oh, I must have missed that part. :P My bad!

[AchromaticRefractor]

@ChrissyoSpace Interestingly enough, when I read your response on my email, there was a link showing the video with both the images shown spinning in the correct direction. Why it showed up different when I first viewed the video I have no idea.

[meSticks]

@ChrissyoSpace: Hey, no problem :-)

[ChrissyoSpace]

@larryobrien It's kinda pseudo-3D. The sequence of images on the right is the same as the sequence on the left, only it is offset by 2 or 3 frames.

[larryobrien]

How did you create the 3D image in the first place? Is it a texture map onto a sphere?