What makes a man?: Places

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Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Anaglyph View

- Bring your own 3D glasses.
An anaglyph is a picture that shows a 3 dimensional image when seen through a special pair of glasses with different lens colours. Usually the right lens is blue and the left is red.

As you will know from my last post I just returned from Japan. There will be a few more posts in the future about various subjects regarding that trip.

Amongst a lot of interesting sites we also visited Shirakawa-go a UNESCO world heritage village in the Shogawa river valley. While there I decided to take some photos to experiment a little with making anaglyph 3D images. I had now idea about how to make this kind of 3D image (I didn't even know their proper name at the time). All I knew was that I needed two photos of the same view taken from slighty different points corresponding to the distance between your eyes.
Today I followed a random tutorial on the web to try to make some anaglyphs and they actually turned out pretty cool.
Below are the original photos.

Now put on your special glasses and click to enlarge!

Shirakawa-go view in 3D

I have always wanted to learn to make this kind of 3D picure and it's actually quite easy so I see a lot of fun potential now. Both for school and for random stuff for the blog. Next I'll have to learn to make it by hand with watercolours. Yeah!

Friday, 17 February 2012

Oliehulen

I was able to go to this cool place to do some milling on my header clamps (update to follow).
Enjoy the photos. I really love places like this.

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Colour Coded Garage Doors

A very nice touch.

Colour Coded Garage Doors

Friday, 5 August 2011

Visit at Wrenchmonkees

I am privileged to live in the same city as Wrenchmonkees. So yesterday a new friend and I went for a ride in the sun and a visit at one of the worlds finest custom motorbike shops. Everybody were busy doing office work, but still took the time to make a cup of coffee and have a quick chat.
We snooped around and had a good time kicking tyres and admiring the very impressive craftmanship. Unsurprisingly the machines were so much more interesting and beautiful in real life. What makes this outfit really stand out is the great taste that goes along with the good craftmanship and attention to detail.
It was very fun to recognize the feeling of being totally star struck. Who knew there was such a thing as superstar motorcycle mechanics?
When we finally got the suzuki started we took a detour around the airport. And apart from Henrik running out of gas and having to pillion to a tank and me blowing one of the new exhaust gaskets, the trip home went hasslefree.
You can follow the Wrenchmonkees' work on their blog.