Magic Eye Holograms

Remember when Magic Eye posters became all the rage? They looked like swirls of random dots or patterns but when you stared into them, slowly a 3D image would reveal itself. Some people found it easy to see the image, some people could never master it. Well, the software is available to create these images for yourself. The technology is called SIRDS (Single Image Random Dot Stereograms) and you can find various tools for creating them on the web through Google. A very good implementation is called 3D Miracle (http://www.ixtlan.ru/) which helps you build SIRDS from 3D models or images on your hard drive.
I have included a hologram of my own at this article's online archive (http://www.digitalus.co.nz/onthenet/) and I challenge you to see it and then determine what it is - I'll announce the winner in next week's article. Also check out Vern's SIRDS gallery at http://www.vern.com/

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