Month: November 2015
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Stereoscopes and Cardboard Part 2: Virtual Stereoscope
In Part 1 I learn about the history of stereoscopic photography. Here in Part 2 I am attempting to display stereoscope cards from the 1890s on my futuristic Google Cardboard. I took some time to calibrate as best I could the images in photoshop and place them in a 3d environment. At first I tried to…
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Stereoscopes and Cardboard Part 1: Digital Archaeology
Here in Part 1, I attempt to learn more about the history of stereoscopic photography. Part 2 involves converting this old photography into a Google Cardboard virtual reality app. I was in a rather large antique shop in Globe, Az snooping around and I came across some rather interesting photographs: These are stereoscopic images taken…
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Fixing Time Machine Files
Infrequently I’ll grab something off my Time Machine. But restoring stuff from time machine can sometimes fail. For example if you are restoring a file from another computer. I then have to resort to copying things over from the Time Machine hard drive, which causes weird permissions issue. And even if you change the user…