Quote - Woo Hoo! I did it!

This looks good on my computer.  No double image and sharp edges.

I did another test where I made a ball really look like it's floating in front of the monitor.

It seems that the less color the better. If the colors are too strong it makes it look fuzzy.

Now that I know how to do it I'll work up something more complex with a ground plane tomorrow and the next step will be trying to do a video.

It's going to be a very short one. LOL that's going to be a lot of work.

Mike

My gratitude to Toxic Wolf who told how to do the Left Right images.  1.5 inches each way from center, it works.

Well done! You can use colour - depending on the software you use to make the anaglyph depends on how well it is preserved. Your filters also affect colour. Some are stronger than others, and that will also have an effect. Things to avoid are strong reds and blues in your pictures. This causes problems as the filters cancel them out in one side and not on the other, causing a swimming or confusing image. So make sure that coloured object will show through both the red and blue filters. Also avoid plain areas. I took some stereo photos in snow, and the pictures fail as anaglyphs because the White snow effectively tells your brain that trickery is afoot, and you can see the edges of objects in a quite distracting way. Here is an example of what I mean. The lamp post at the front has red/cyan shadows against the White sky. They show up as hosts when viewed using 3D glasses. You can never fully avoid this, but minimising is is good. Background noise (sky with clouds in this instance) would help. Also note that what works for you won't work for others. I like to have anaglyphs pop immediately. Some I have seen seem to require huge amounts of effort, which us bad. Keeping your distance between cameras to a natural distance is a good idea, as is keeping the focal length of your camera. I find 35mm to 50mm gives best results.