stereogram

september 2026 · three lenses, one frame

Building a stereo adapter for my camera, and some custom software to animate the images.

the camera

First buy a disposable camera. Make sure to take photos with your friends!

The sun setting between dark trees under heavy clouds

Hands toasting drinks over a blanket and a hand of cards

Someone playing guitar in front of a tapestry of a sun over waves

Someone sitting on a fallen log in a sunlit forest

Next take the camera apart for its lenses. Use blunt force, they don't make these things easy access.

A Fujifilm QuickSnap disposable camera next to the printed mount

Get the 3D printed adapter made. I had this made many years ago and had been holding onto it all this time. I don't know where I got the files, but they exist online so look them up.

The back of the mount, with dividers between the lenses

the image(s)

The camera will project 3 images onto the frame, all from the different perspectives of the lenses. These are kind of already cool on their own.

An elevated train platform, three times over

A building and parked cars, three times over

A fallen tree in the woods, three times over

wiggles

I (had Claude) put together some software to cut the images up and animate them. Make sure to orient each of the images around an origin point, like a flower that can be seen in all three perspectives. Otherwise the wiggles won't line up if the adapter isn't perfectly horizontal.