With Zerene Stacker or other software, one can take the 3-D stack of images and create stereo pairs or apparently 3-D animations.
There are two types of stereo pairs, "cross-eyed" or "parallel". As you may imagine, the parallel set is so the right eye sees the right image and the left eye the left, and the cross-eyed set is for the right eye to see the left image and the left eye to see the right image.
Some people can train their eyes and brains to see the cross-eyed stereo pairs without aid, but I am not one of those folks. Therefore, I use a special pair of glasses (Pocket 3Dvu 3D Viewer) for stereo pair viewing in parallel mode, which works well.
Among the many things it can do, StereoPhoto Maker will flip the left and right halves with "View/Swap", or simply by pushing "X". You can then re-save it as a parallel version.
The photos below will lead you to a larger version of the "flat" image. Below each image is a link to the cross-eyed, parallel and animated .GIF version (with .GIF filesize listed).
This will be organized by technique: Disco Lights Illumination Extreme Macro Brightfield Darkfield DIC Polarization
First, 10x DLI of clumps of gold nanoparticles (nanopowder).
Another 10x Disco Lights image shows details of the head of a crane fly.
Gorilla Glue (TM) has the interesting property of "foaming up" when it cures. I'm not sure if it is air or oxygen or CO2 or what, but it makes bubbles in the glue. Here we see them in 10x Disco Lights Illumination.
With 20x DLI, here we have a dry mounted radiolaria fossil, on black paper background.
The fiddleneck genus (Amsinckia) can be difficult to identify to the species level, but I think this is either A. tessellata (Bristly Fiddleneck) or A. menziesii (Rancher's Fireweed).
First, shown with a Edmund Optics 2x LWD objective used directly on a 200 mm lens attached to a DLSR, in "extreme macro", and second with a 5x epi-darkfield BD objective.
Using a reversed 105 mm focal length medium format lens for the Pentax 67, I obtained the following stack of 37 images of the same fly, but 8 days later.
Here we have an extreme-macro stack and stitch with a Helios 44 (f/2 58 mm) lens in combination with a Nikkor 55-200 mm zoom of a LEGO Stormtrooper.
Another extreme macro stack, this time with the 2x Edmund Optics LWD objective, 22 images with Zerene Stacker of common moss.
A palo verde blossom with an extreme macro reversed Pentax 67 165 mm lens at f/4 with a 97 image focus stack with Zerene Stacker PMax.
A mesquite tree blossom with the same reversed Pentax 67 165 mm lens at f/2.8 with a 296 image focus stack with Zerene Stacker PMax.
A pencil cactus flower with the same reversed Pentax 67 165 mm lens at f/8 with a 77 image focus stack with Zerene Stacker PMax.
A small metal figurine with the same reversed Pentax 67 165 mm lens at f/8 with a 50 image focus stack with Zerene Stacker DMap.
Again using a reversed 105 mm focal length medium format lens for the Pentax 67, I obtained the following stack of 39 images of a Cree 15 W LED, with it's hemispherical lens.
Again using a reversed 105 mm focal length medium format lens for the Pentax 67, I obtained the following stack of 23 images of salt and pepper.
With the same reversed Pentax 67 105 mm lens, I obtained the following stack of 411 images of greasewood (creosote) Larrea tridentata.
Now with a reversed Pentax 67 200 mm lens (1:1), I obtained the following stacks of ~70 images of Indian spice seeds.
Here we have the same spices, but with a Pentax 67 55 mm lens on a Tamron 80-210 mm telephoto as the tube lens (3.82:1), a DMap stack of 25 images.
Next, we have a couple of aloe vera seeds, with a solid core and paper-like exterior surfaces. This is a Zerene DMap stack of 11 images at ISO 100 with 1/200th second exposures with a flash with the reversed Pentax 67 55 mm lens at f/4 with the Nikkor 55-200 mm f/5.6 lens as a tube at 200 mm (3.64:1).
My first attempt with a horizontal macro rig uses bellows with a reversed enlarger lens, the Schneider Componon S 100 mm f/5.6 - a beautiful lens! This is a Zerene PMax stack of 34 images at ISO 200 with 1/200th second exposures with an off-camera flash. The subject is a PLA 3D print of St. Basil's Cathedral. The stack covered over 35 mm in depth!
Next, a 60x Plan Apo oil image of multiple layers of onion cells in various stages of mitosis (cell division).
This is the epi-darkfield version of the fiddleneck seen in extreme macro section.
Here is a stack of 297 images with 5x BD epi-darkfield of a common burr that I found on the leg of my pants.
Here we have the head of a fly (not a common housefly), with 5x epi-darkfield.
Here is a 5x epi-darkfield stack of the head of an adult green lacewing.
Again with the 5x BD Plan, I took the following stack of 65 images of pink anti-static open cell foam. The colors come from thin-film interference, like you see in soap bubbles.
Again with the 5x BD Plan, with the addition of stitching in Microsoft ICE, I took the following stack of 49 and 30 images of the ventral view of a small green nymph (immature insect).
While this stack was done with a 5x M Plan with epi-DIC, not much was added by DIC, it just happened to be set up when I needed to use the 'scope. It is a lacewing larva that had just hatched from it's egg, and still hanging on to dry.
Photographic "Rapid Fixer" is primarily ammonium thiosulphate, so here are some of the crystals formed. Using a 40x Hoffman objective plus polarizers give a unique feel to these three images, with Zerene Stacker PMax (#3 is DMap).
And now with a 2x Plan Apo with crossed polarizers (no HMC), a stack of 10 PMax.
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