Shorter Youtube 3d version of a Random Dot Stereogram.

This is my first stereoscopic 3D experiment with random dot stereograms.  It is best viewed in Anaglyph mode with red / cyan glasses at 720p HD resolution, in full screen mode. Here is a link to the Wikipedia page on Random Dot Stereograms.

Below is a 640x360 resolution version in MPEG 4 format. I have noticed that the random dot pattern is hard to compress and makes large file sizes.

You can download this video clip as a MPEG4 formatted Random Dot Anaglyph RDS_anaglyph.mp4 (50 MB)

In this animation you will see a grid of spheres hovering above the screen that rotate slowly back and forth.

This was created in Autodesk Maya by rendering a floating point z-depth render pass and then processed in Apple Shake using the displace node applied to pattern of random dots. I've noticed that when you try and create a random dot stereogram you have to have the random dots animate like static or your brain won't interpret the changing depth cues.

Maya Rendered Z-depth

Random Dot Stereogram in Shake