Vintage stereoscopic pictures [Archive]

bigman

05-06-2006, 07:07 PM

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This is historical ground. Here was fought the first battle of the Revolutionary War. You will recall that the British vessels in the spring of 1775 were lying in Boston Harbor. The Colonists were prepared to resist any attempt of the Redcoats to seize their ammunition. This ammunition was stored at Concord, where it was put for the use of the Minutemen. The British soldiers landed on the night of April 18th. It was on that night that Paul Revere rode out to the towns of Lexington and Concord to arouse the Minutemen so they would be prepared to meet the British.

About dawn, on April 19th, on this Common, some 70 or 80 militiamen, commanded by Capt. John Parker, blocked the way. Captain Parker commanded his men in the words that are engraved upon this stone. Above these words you see the musket and the powder horn such as were used by the Revolutionary soldiers. The British fired on the Colonists, killed 4 and wounded 9 others. The Americans retreated in the direction of Concord. Scores of trained Minutemen here joined them.

It was at the Concord Bridge, not many miles away, that the Colonists again confronted the British. The fire was so hot at this point that the British beat a retreat. The Colonists followed, firing from every house and stone, until the British were chased back into Boston. They had lost 273 men as against 88 of the Minutemen. They did not come out again to destroy military stores, or to arrest Samuel Adams or John Hancock, two Revolutionary leaders who were charged with treason to the King. Read Longfellow's "The Ride of Paul Revere" ; Emerson's "The Concord Bridge." Lat 42 degrees N, Long. 71 degrees W

bigman

05-06-2006, 07:24 PM

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All civilized people wear some kind of covering on their feet. Many semi-civilized and savages also have shoes of some sort. You remember that our American Indian made his own deer-skin moccassin. And excellent they were, too, for his purpose. They were soft to the feet and silent in the woods. On the other hand, the Hollander wears a wooden shoe. This is cheap, durable, and keeps his feet dry in his wet country. The Japanese wear a sandal so made that they can slip them off easily when entering the house. It is necessary that they remove their shoes because the rugs on the floor serve at night for the beds.

You are reminded of the above facts because we Americans come to look upon shoes as being made of two substances only, either rubber or leather. Where water-proof shoes or boots are needed, rubber is the better. But almost everybody in this country, as in the western countries of Europe, wear leather shoes. This leather is tanned from the hides and skins of animals. It is shipped to the factories in bales and rolls, cut to its proper shapes, usually by machines, sewed by machinery, shaped by machinery, and eyeletted and pegged by machinery. In fact the American shoe is largely a machine-made shoe. One of these wonderful machines is here seen in operation.

This is the lasting machine, sometimes called the Goodyear Pulling-Over Machine. It is said that it cost $1,500,000 and five years of trial to perfect it. The "upper" of the shoe is placed over the wooden last. The machine is clamped on this "upper" and draws the fore part of the shoe into shape. Thus, in a few seconds, is performed the most difficult task of the shoemaker. Lat 42 degrees N, Long 71 degrees W

khemystri

05-06-2006, 11:10 PM

Check out what I did to the Mona Lisa
http://home.comcast.net/~khemystri/monalisa-stereo.jpg

khemystri

05-06-2006, 11:16 PM

Those are really cool, kheymystri. Did you make those yourself? If so, could you explain the process? I assume you used Photoshop, with different layers for each layer in the artwork.

no, i used 3dsmax....

for instance..... whitelight, i created a 3 dimension tube,
I then mapped the alex grey image onto the 3d tube
and then created two cameras... i then rendered the image
using the offset virtual cameras...

Im getting better at this.... in the above photo,
i created mona lisa in 3d.... i modeled her neck, her face, eyesockets, gown,
arms, hands....

i couldve modeled the background, and i eventually will, as you
can see, its just flat, as if shes standing in front of a poster, but her body
and face have depth....

im obsessed with this process... expect more of these from me...
especially from alex grey images, theyre perfect due to the fact that he
uses alot of geometry in his art....

all i need now are high quality scans.... Maybe ill email alex, show him my work so far, and get some free lithographs out of the deal.

bigman

05-07-2006, 12:06 AM

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Wool is first graded, then washed in soft, soapy water, run through wringers, and dried. The water must not be hard, since the lime in hard water would fasten the fibers together. Wool must come from the drying rooms light and fleecy. To make it pliable it is sprinkled with oil.

Task number two is to straighten these fibers. This is done in carding machines that comb the fibers out flat in a wide sheet. The tips of the fibers are made to overlap at the same time. The sheet is next ripped into strips which run through rolls. These rolls twist the fibers into loose tubes. The tubes are spun into threads which are drawn to the right size. The product is the yarn used in weaving.

But it is often necessary to make these yarns two-fold or three-fold. Such yarns are used to make fancy curls, locks or twists. The machine in which this is done is called a doubling frame. This name describes its use. You will observe that the threads from the left hand side come from pairs of spools. Each pair of threads goes through the same guard or eyelet. The machine twists these together, or doubles them.

Weaving the cloth is the next act. Large looms beat closely together two sets of woolen yarns that run in opposite directions.

Finishing woolen cloth is more difficult by far than finishing cotton goods. There are rough spots and knots to be smoothed out, and small holes to darn. Then, too, some of the goods must be highly finished with a beautiful gloss. Because of its softness, the woolen cloth is not easily patterned. Calicoes take prints easily. Woolen goods are soberer in color as a general rule. But when colors are properly combined in woolen goods, the effect is rich. Lat 43 degrees N, Long 71 degrees W

bigman

05-07-2006, 12:24 AM

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"To look upon its grass-grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace. One one side of the church extends a wide, woody dell, along which raves a large brook among broken rocks and trunks of fallen trees. Over a deep black part of the stream, not far from the church, was formerly thrown a wooden bridge. The road that led to it and the bridge itself were thickly shaded by overhanging trees, which cast a gloom about it even in the daytime, but occasioned a fearful darkness at night. This was one of the favorite haunts of the headless horseman and the place he was most frequently encountered."

This is the happy way in which Irving describes the place round about the Sleepy Hollow cemetery in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The burial ground is famous chiefly because of Irving. The great author lies buried here beneath a simple slab of stone. Hundreds of tourists go each year to see his grave and the place of Crane's adventure.

The Sleepy Hollow church is in the cemetery next to the road where Ichabod had his last mad ride. Below the church stood the bridge across which old Gunpowder thundered. Still farther southeast, by the road, stands the monument where André the spy was arrested by the three Continental soldiers.

The whole district is a part of, or near, Tarrytown, New York. Tarrytown today is a place well known for the wealthy people who live in or near it. It is only 25 miles north of the City of New York. In the southern part of the Tarrytown is Sunnyside, Irving's home. Read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Who was André? How was he connected with Arnold? Lat. 41 degrees N, 74 degrees W

bigman

05-07-2006, 12:27 AM

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The Palisades is the name given to the steep cliffs on the west shore of the Hudson River from Hoboken to Piermont. This is a distance of almost 25 miles. At its highest point the cliffs are about 500 feet above the water of the river. For the most part the Palisades are very steep, dropping of sharply to the water's edge.

The effect of the Palisades as seen from the Hudson cannot be imagined. Great peaks of rock project above the general level line of the top, giving the effect of old castles. The traveler never tires of watching the ever-changing view as the steamer moves along. Now dark and forbidding, as clouds shade the line of cliffs; now peaceful and quiet in the summer sunshine; rough and barren rock in one spot; wood upon wood [Editor's Note: You know, like if Ron Jeremy and John Holmes made a movie together.] in another - it is no wonder that the Palisades have different moods.

Near the narrow, rocky shore, beneath the cliffs, hundreds of boats draw up in summer; they are the vehicles of city dwellers who are having an outing up the river. The paths that wind about the base of the hills and through the woods are the joy of trampers. The states of New York and New Jersey have made a park of this district so that people may be free to enjoy all its beauty.

The Palisades is comprised of trap-rock. It was formed largely by erosion; that is by the gradual weathering of the stone. The cliffs now form a great western wall for the lower Hudson.

At the southern end of the Palisades is one of the greatest harbors in the world. This is the port of New York. The City of New York, Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark have built great docks to hold the vessels that put into these ports. They are practically all one city as far as shipping goes. The lower end of the Hudson is called North River. Lat. 41 degrees N, Long. 74 degrees W

bigman

05-07-2006, 12:30 AM

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Steel is refined iron. You will recall that in making iron heat is the principal factor. The crude iron ore is heated and refined to a certain degree, and then is fashioned into various forms, among which are pigs. In this iron, however, there remains a great deal of phosphorus and sulphur. These elements make it brittle.

Iron is changed into steel by further heating, which burns out the phosphorus and sulphur, and injects carbon into it. It is easy to take a piece of iron and transform it into steel by a very simple method. This is the old method of putting cast iron into a vat and heating it until it melts. While it is white-hot it is stirred very rapidly. This stirring allows the heat to enter every part of the metal and burn out the impurities. The metal is then known as wrought-iron. If this is packed with carbon for several days and still kept white-hot it will come to be the finest quality of steel. We still make steel in this way - the steel that is used in fine carpenters' squares and in fine cutlery, such as carving knives and razors. This method of making steel is very slow. Bessemer invented a process of injecting carbon into the molten metal while it is white-hot. This is done in great blast furnaces.

You see here what happens to carbonized metal just after it is drawn out of the furnaces, which are to the extreme left of the view [Editor's Note: Actually, the furnaces were mostly cropped out of the picture when I formatted this one for the 10,000 Days packaging. You can see part of one behind the top left corner of the big bucket thingy.] The big steel pail, lifted by a crane, is full of hot metal. It moves above a row of molds, each of which is filled from the pail by pulling a lever. One of these molds is receiving the red-hot metal. The molds (they look like barrels) this side of the pail are filled with the cooling steel covered with sand. The blocks of steel in these molds are called ingots. Lat. 40 degrees N, Long. 80 degrees W

bigman

05-07-2006, 12:33 AM

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From the blooming mill, the sections of steel, still red hot, are rushed into the sawing room. Here they are cut into the proper lengths. You must remember in this connection, that the blooming mill changes the ingots only in width and thickness. The length depends upon the amount of steel in the ingot and the thickness and width to which it is drawn in the mills. The thinner and narrower the strips, the longer the piece of steel will be.

Here you see a bar of red-hot steel being cut crosswise by a circular saw. This saw is made of ordinary steel, but it travels at a high rate of speed. This is necessary to keep any part of the saw from becoming too hot. The teeth of the saw travel at the rate of 150 miles an hour. It takes only 3 or 4 seconds to saw a bar in two.

In sawing rails to be used for trackage, three saws, placed at proper distances apart, are used at the same time to cut the bar into two rails. The two end saws cut off the ends of the rails, while the one in the middle cuts it in two. [Editor's Note: Cut it all right in two. RIGHT IN TWO!] You will observe in the view the thousands of sparks that fly off the bars as the saw cuts them. Notice how distinctly these sparks are photographed. They look, and are, to all effects, tiny meteors.

When steel has to be cut to exact lengths it must be allowed to cool before it is sawed. This is because the iron shrinks considerably as it cools. The cold saw must be made of very fine steel. It travels slowly so that the high friction will not heat it to too great a temperature. Even then, it must run through a trough cooled with soapsuds to keep the teeth from losing their temper. [Editor's Note: And we certainly don't want angry teeth coming after us, now do we?] Explain the two ways of sawing steel. Lat. 40 degrees N, Long. 80 degrees W

bigman

05-07-2006, 12:38 AM

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Long before we ever knew the word "camouflage" this favorite game bird was practicing it upon the hunter. As its nest is just a hollow in the leaves, the color of its feathers is its safety. This is a reddish or yellowish brown, spotted and striped with dark brown or black. Even the long, stick-like bill helps in its hiding among the branches. No troop ship was ever striped with paint to look more like the ocean waves than is this bird colored to look like the dead leaves as the sunshine and shadows fall upon them.

If you should get so close to its nest that it must move to save being stepped upon, it plays that it is lame or has a broken wing. But it always keeps just out of reach as it flutters away. When it has coaxed you to a safe distance from its nest, it suddenly darts away. If its young are in danger it sometimes carries them between its feet.

It lives largely on earthworms. These it gets by boring into the ground with its long bill. As it can only do this in soft ground it keeps near some marsh or stream; for a woodcock with a broken bill is the worst kind of a cripple. It is called the "owl among snipes" because it gets its food at night. But it always leaves its tracks,-holes or "borings" made with its bill. It can move the tip of the upper part of its bill almost like a finger in getting food. This is very sensitive; so it does not need owl's eyes, for it feels rather than looks for the worms. It goes only far enough south in winter to keep away from frozen ground. [Editor's Note: Other fine specimens of American Woodcock include Ron Jeremy and John Holmes.] Lat. 42 degrees N, Long. 80 degrees W

bigman

05-07-2006, 12:41 AM

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Here you are at the bottom of an anthracite, or hard coal mine. This is the lower end of the large shaft which leads to the surface of the earth perhaps 1,500 feet above. A carload of coal is on the elevator or cage ready to be lifted to the top of the dump into the breaker. The cage and shaft are the center of a mine of this kind. To it lead the many switches from acres of underground rooms. It is necessary that this shaft be constructed of strong materials. For not only must all the coal be brought to the surface through it, but it is the only exit of the hundreds of miners.

You can see for yourself that the shaft and cage here shown are strongly made. You will observe the large timbers, the heavy framework of the cage, and the big safety chain above. The weight on the cage you can figure for yourself. The car weighs one ton and the coal two tons.

The cage weighs 1 1/2 tons and the 1500 feet of wire rope, which lifts it, another 1 1/2 tons. How much is this in all? You will be interested to know that the rope is made of strands of woven steel wire, 19 wires to the strand. It is 1 1/8 inches in diameter and can lift a weight of 60 tons. Some of the cages used in these mines have two decks, one above the other. By this means, two cars of coal can be lifted at a time.

Some of the Pennsylvania shafts are sunk 3,000 feet beneath the surface of the earth. This means that some of the coal is actually mined below sea level. In many of these deep mines it is necessary to have extensive pumping equipment to remove the inflow of water. Pennsylvania mines, however, are shallow as compared with most of those in Europe. Some of the European mines are over a mile in depth. Lat. 41 degrees N, Long. 76 degrees W

bigman

05-07-2006, 12:46 AM

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The making of paper money is under the control of the Treasury Department. Here you can see the printing of bills in the bureau of printing and engraving. There is nothing unusual about this printing, but a great deal of care must be taken to see that proper plates are used, in every case. Each bill is a part of a series and is marked with its proper letter and number.

The most interesting process in making paper-money is in the making of the paper. At Dalton, Massachusetts, there is a so-called "Government Mill", owned by the Crane family, which makes 99% ot the paper used in our greenbacks. This mill is is a three-story brick building of simple construction, but inside it is a process of paper making that is not generally known. Each piece of paper money contains two lines of silk fiber. The process of inserting this silk fiber is called the Crane process. You would not be allowed to see how these fibers are inserted if you were permitted to visit the mill. Any one who might be fortunate enough to re-discover the process, would not be allowed to make this kind of paper. If he does, he is subject to a fine of $5,000 and 15 years in prison.

The paper is sent to the Treasury Department in packages of 1,000 sheets. The printing of the bills is done from plates on hand presses. Each pressman is given one package of note paper, enough to make 4,000 bills. With the aid of one woman helper, he prints 2,000 bills a day on one side only. At the end of the day all stock is carefully checked before the workmen can leave. This is to prevent stealing. In the printing department of the Treasury, over 600 people are employed. What makes paper money valuable?
Lat. 39 degress N, Long. 76 degrees W

chaos_one666

05-07-2006, 01:01 AM

those pictures are awesome, khemystri. i had a bit of trouble with the first two, but the mona lisa popped right out.

Lost Keys

05-07-2006, 08:42 AM

i then rendered the image
using the offset virtual cameras...

ahh that just gave me so many ideas rite there. :):):)

heres my first try with flat images of some artwork i've done.

http://members.cox.net/perdition/LKTN.jpg

khemystri

05-07-2006, 03:56 PM

ahh that just gave me so many ideas rite there. :):):)

heres my first try with flat images of some artwork i've done.

http://members.cox.net/perdition/LKTN.jpg

YOU GOT IT!!!!!!
well done.....

Im going to be working on lots more this coming week....
What else shoiuld i do at work.... actually work???? HA!!!!

Loveboat Captain

05-07-2006, 04:06 PM

May I ask, how are these being viewed on the computer? :S

Is there a way to see these images without stereoscopic goggles?!

khemystri

05-07-2006, 04:32 PM

May I ask, how are these being viewed on the computer? :S

Is there a way to see these images without stereoscopic goggles?!

You can always download them, and print them at around 4.75" wide....
or practice focusing on the wall past your computer....

Takes patience.

Jesus Knievel

05-07-2006, 04:40 PM

whats so hard about putting 2 images right next to eachother?

teleincision

05-07-2006, 06:38 PM

whats so hard about putting 2 images right next to eachother?

well if you look closely, there are not the same picture...
one IS the same image, and the other is a little modified, like maybe the part that the artist wants to "stand out", is placed a little to the left to the orainginal image background...

hope you understand....
EDIT: and good job guys! keep up the good work!

jsn

05-07-2006, 07:26 PM

i can't see the lateralus or the second one at all.
but the others rule. keep 'em coming.

magnolia

05-07-2006, 08:28 PM

They all look good... keep them coming! I took some rolls of actual stereoscopic images, using the method on Adam's myspace... they will be developed tomorrow.

Lost Keys

05-07-2006, 10:27 PM

YOU GOT IT!!!!!!
well done.....

Im going to be working on lots more this coming week....
What else shoiuld i do at work.... actually work???? HA!!!!

BAD ASS!@!! :} thanks. I'm on vacation myself so I'll be doing alittle more as well LOL!

if you stare into it, let your eyes get use to it... you can see each of the 13 objects.

i'll post a xm days lense version later but I'm afraid it will lose it's quality and become blurry due to the light reflecting off the monitor.

as for the vintage photos my favorite is the clifffs at The Palisades.

it's liek ur realy thar!!!omg!!!

Lost Keys

05-07-2006, 10:27 PM

They all look good... keep them coming! I took some rolls of actual stereoscopic images, using the method on Adam's myspace... they will be developed tomorrow.

can't wait to see them. i'm going to take some later this week.

khemystri

05-08-2006, 09:47 PM

Check out my newest Alex Grey stereoscopic photo....
I did the interbeing one, like the yellow and blue one in the book,
and modeling (3D) the more colorful version of it......

Click here:
http://home.comcast.net/~khemystri/inter-stereo.jpg

Lost Keys

05-08-2006, 09:54 PM

whats so hard about putting 2 images right next to eachother?

LOL I know! like there could possibly be more to it. lol what morans!!

http://members.cox.net/perdition/seewhatididthar.jpg

khemystri

05-09-2006, 07:32 AM

Yet another Alex Grey.....

Click here:

http://home.comcast.net/~khemystri/pen-stereo.jpg

khemystri

05-09-2006, 08:52 AM

Yet another... Transiguration

Click here:
http://home.comcast.net/~khemystri/trans-stereo.jpg

efdious

05-09-2006, 11:23 AM

These are great! Of course, I'm pretty much ready to vomit... but I work in a law office so it's cool.

Keep 'em coming!

Lost Keys

05-09-2006, 08:59 PM

Yet another Alex Grey.....

Click here:

http://home.comcast.net/~khemystri/pen-stereo.jpg

how in the hell!!! that's my favorite alex grey painting. how did you get that white flame along the wrist on the left side. I know you offset this part but don't see how you could of gotten that white area in there unless you manually put it in there.

Yet another... Transiguration

Click here:
http://home.comcast.net/~khemystri/trans-stereo.jpg

very good work!!

i posted a few new ones in this thread:
http://toolnavy.com/showthread.php?t=45477

khemystri

05-10-2006, 05:45 AM

how in the hell!!! that's my favorite alex grey painting. how did you get that white flame along the wrist on the left side. I know you offset this part but don't see how you could of gotten that white area in there unless you manually put it in there.

i created layers in 3d.... one piece for the pen, one for the top of hand,
one for the middle finger, and one with the pinky....

YOUR RIGHT..... I did have to touch up the glow.....
Thats the toughest thing about these.... having to touch up later in P-shop