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Make 3d image to view with Coloured Glasses or Crossed Eyes

Essentially R-G 3d consists of seperating the three colour channels shifting and recombining them.   This can be applied to a single Frame to get pseudo 3d.   Or to 2 Frames generated from a single stack which is skewed before stacking using an average method.  Or to 2 Frames obtained by taking two photographs, moving the camera between shots.   In the 2 Frame methods if say you have Red and Green glasses R and 1/2 of B are taken from the first Frame and G and 1/2 B are taken from the second Frame.

Here is a Mcro that will do false R-G 3d from a single Frame.   To use it save on your computer in the same folder as CombineZM.exe.   Then Load Macro Set which is on the Macro menu.   And finally it will appear on the Macro menu it's self.

Pseudo_3d.czm

Whatever is the active Frame before invoking this macro is copied to the top of the Stack twice, one copy is then converted to R+0.5xB the other to G+0.5xB, the two are then added together.   Initially the result is no different to the original, you have to shift one of the tinted frames to one side.   To do this, while wearing coloured spectacles, hold down the shift key while pressing the Right or Left arrow key and observe the result.   When you are satisfied press Return, answer No if asked if you wish to continue using this tool, and save the result in the usual way.   This function uses Out as a work area so whatever was there originally is destroyed.

Here is a macro to do Real R-G 3d use it in the same way as the last, only arrange to have the two Frames to combine at the top of the Stack.   These frames will be modified, then added, there is no need to shift them as the difference between frames is in the originals.

Real_3d.czm

Finally to generate 2 frames from a single stack here is a Macro.

Make L and R Frames.czm

Not all stacks are suitable, even with those that are there are often artifacts.   Load the Macro Set as above, load the frames to stack, then run the macro.   The result should be two frames at the top of the stack which you can feed into the Real-3d Macro above or display side by side.

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