NY Public Library turns stereographs into animated GIFs, reminds your 3D TV of its roots

Digging your 3D TVs , video game consoles and laptops ? Thank the past — the recent York Public Library is here to remind you that streographic entertainment have been blowing minds for over 100 years, and has the animated gifs to prove it. The Library recently introduced Stereogranimator, an online app that taps into the institution’s large number of historical stereographs and allows user to transform them into wiggling GIF animations and 3D anaglyphs. This system was inspired by “Reaching for the Out of Reach,” a manual labor of animated stereographs started by San Francisco artist Joshua Heineman. The library currently has over 40,000 pairs of stenographic images just begging to be converted to depth-suggesting wigglepic. Interested? The link is below, friends — go ahead and create your individual psudeo-3D view of history. Too lazy to make your personal? Fine, read on for a shaky and colorful check out an orange tree.

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