Bob’s 3D Stuff

This fountain is located on Cabrillo and Marcelina in Old Downtown Torrance. The fountain is a gift to the city of Torrance from Mrs. Celia Pons. The fountain was dedicated to the memory of the Late President on September 14, 1964.

Anybody that can remember November 22, 1963 will almost certainly remember where they were and what they were doing when they got the news about the slain president. My ‘where I was and what I was doing’ story takes me back to when I was on active duty in the U.S. Navy. I was stationed at the Naval Air Station, Point Mugu, California. After driving one of the Pilots to the administration building, I was returning to the flight line in the division’s Jeep. One of the division petty officers was in his car in the parking lot listening to the radio. He said “they shot the president!” For the next few days, the base commander directed all sailors to wear dress or undress blues instead of the usual dungarees. I remember riding back to Santa Monica along the coastline (SR 1) and seeing a throng of media outside of the beachfront home belonging to Peter Lawford who was married to one of Kennedy’s sisters. Radio stations played nothing but dreadful dirge music, as I recall.

To view the 3D image, you will need 3D glasses. Click on the image to enlarge.

If you don’t have a pair of 3D glasses yet, you can see the 2D version here.

While visiting Mom and Dad a couple of weeks ago, I snapped this 3D image of Verna’s little convertible. It was parked in the driveway and I leaned over the gate to get the pair of images needed to combine into this 3D image.

Click on the image to the right for the full-sized stereo anaglyph image.

You will need a pair of 3D glasses to view the stereo image. If you don’t have your pair yet, you can see the 2D image here.

I am always looking for photo ops when I take my after-lunch walk. Last week this UPS Freight Truck was parked behind the Movie Studios. I stood about thirty feet away from the truck with the sun at my back and snapped a pair of images to be converted to a 3D image.

You can see the studio buildings beyond the truck. Click the image to enlarge.

As always, if you don’t have your 3D glasses yet, you can see the image in 2D here.

I did not actually take an aerial photo of Portuguese Bend to get this 3D image, although it would be possible from a moving aircraft. Rather, I made it from a pair of screen captures using Google Earth to view the terrain along the southern coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. I took each captured image from a slightly different vantage point by moving the image laterally.

I think this image gives a pretty good 3D relief map of the Portuguese Bend area (click image for larger view). If you don’t have your 3D Glasses, you can see the image in 2D here.

If you don’t have Google Earth, you should get it. You can do a lot more with it than making nerdy 3D images.

In the past, I made Google Earth 3D images of several other locations:

Santa Catalina Airport in the Sky
Mount Whitney
Mount St. Helens
Grand Canyon Village

I’m surprised at how good this 3D image turned out. Since I take the image pairs seconds apart in time, the motion of the waterfall and the fish in the pond would spoil the stereo effect. But I got lucky and it all seemed to work out. Visit my 3D Stuff page for more information about stereoscopic pictures.

This is the new water feature at the South Coast Botanic Garden – a pond, stocked with Koi, a rippling stream and little waterfall. Click on the image for the big anaglyph.

Just in case you don’t have your 3D glasses yet, you can see the 2D version here.