Stereo Maker 2!

Instructions:

• Two types of histograms can be generated: (1)Image stereograms from a gif file or (2) Random Dot Stereograms (RDS). The latter is the initial state.
• For Image stereograms, pick the backplane image desired from the Image menu on bottom right.
• For RDS two or three colors can be selected.
• Startup for RDS begins with display of the depth image with blue letters and black background. For the Image type, the inital image is displayed and then the depth image.
• The stereogram generation then uses the depth information to construct the stereogram. This can take up to a minute depending on your computer power. [I've tried to indicate the progress with statusbar messages but they seem to get behind the true current state.]
• New stereograms can be generated with different depth images by placing up to 5 characters in the Input box.
• You can experiment with some of the stereogram parameters by varying the controls described below.
• Hit Redraw to make a new stereogram with the current control settings.

Controls:

• Input = characters to be displayed
• Sep Factor = ratio of min stereo separation to max. It scales the depth of view range.
• dpi = dots per inch (change this to the value for your screen for best results.)
• Char Size = Point size of character font drawn on stereogram.
• Oversample = Improves the resolution by calculating for an initial number of pixels a factor "oversample" as big as the final value. Then averaging for final display. Slows computation time roughly by this factor, however. Only works for Image type stereograms.
• Image/RDS menu - choose type of stereogram to generate.
• 3 color menus. In the rightmost color menu, choose "none" to make 2 color RDS.
• Image menu with choices for the Image type stereogram.
• Redraw will create a new stereogram.