Pannable stereo pairs of Opportunity's rock formation

This is great!

Stereo pairs are a lot clearer than anaglyphs, but pairs for unaided viewing cannot be any wider than the separation between your pupils, which really limits their size. So how can you see large, high-detail stereo pairs without shrinking them?

The images below will pan in the direction shown by the arrows beneath them when you place the mouse over the arrows. Find an interesting area and then focus your stereo vision (leftmost pair for cross-eyed, rightmost for parallel-eyed). You may even find that you can keep your stereo vision while panning. Anticipate more use of this technique in the future.

Click on a thumbnail on the right to chose a different pair. (You'll have to wait while two ~40 KB images to download.)

Back to the Opportunity 3-D page

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Note: I occasionally find JavaScript useful, but I always try to craft my pages so that they'll work almost as good without it. But this technique depends on JavaScript. Likewise, it requires a fairly modern browser that supports "iframes". (Maybe it's time to trade in that old NCSA Mosaic for a modern browser.) I adapted the panning code from an example found at Dynamic Web Coding. Sorry, I haven't yet determined whether I can make buttons to resize these images in the way that they're being used here.