Saturday, January 28, 2012
hstryqt: museumsandstuff: New York Public Library’s Stereogranimator Lets You Make GIFs Out Of 19th Century Stereographs: “With the Stereogranimator, the NYPL is letting users transform 19th century stereographs into GIFs, which lets people experience these historical images the way someone in the 1800s might have. Drawing on a collection of over 40,000 stereographs, the Stereogranimator is a project of the NYPL Labs, an experimental unit at the library using digital means to develop new tools for research. “If you look through enough of them, you start to notice that many from before 1900 come in seemingly-identical pairs. What you may not realize is that these pairs were meant to be viewed together, each side lending the other a sense of depth that a photograph alone cannot possess,” Joshua Heineman, who began a version of the Stereogranimator as a personal project on his blog, wrote on the Huffington Post. “Using stereoscopes, the entertainment-seeking public of the 19th century immersed themselves in these 3D photographs (called stereographs) in a manner akin to how we now view movies, video games or cellphone screens.” Wow this is an amazing idea coming out of a GLAM I admire :). What a great way to make a historical hobby extremely fun and relevant for today? Love love love. Sharp web design, too.

hstryqt:

museumsandstuff:

New York Public Library’s Stereogranimator Lets You Make GIFs Out Of 19th Century Stereographs:

“With the Stereogranimator, the NYPL is letting users transform 19th century stereographs into GIFs, which lets people experience these historical images the way someone in the 1800s might have. Drawing on a collection of over 40,000 stereographs, the Stereogranimator is a project of the NYPL Labs, an experimental unit at the library using digital means to develop new tools for research.

“If you look through enough of them, you start to notice that many from before 1900 come in seemingly-identical pairs. What you may not realize is that these pairs were meant to be viewed together, each side lending the other a sense of depth that a photograph alone cannot possess,” Joshua Heineman, who began a version of the Stereogranimator as a personal project on his blog, wrote on the Huffington Post. “Using stereoscopes, the entertainment-seeking public of the 19th century immersed themselves in these 3D photographs (called stereographs) in a manner akin to how we now view movies, video games or cellphone screens.”

Wow this is an amazing idea coming out of a GLAM I admire :). What a great way to make a historical hobby extremely fun and relevant for today? Love love love.

Sharp web design, too.

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    This a really fun thing to do. —Jacob
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