3D creativity for the Web

Autostereograms on the Web make a very appealing combination: • The World Wide Web brings together art, science and technology, both in the medium and in its content. Autostereograms, likewise: based in science, they are art made possible by computer graphics technology. • The Web is extremely accessible: it makes multimedia available to more people than any other computer-based medium. Autostereograms, similarly, are easily viewed without any special equipment and give true stereoscopic 3D effects. This paper discusses stereoscopic 3D effects, and how drawing autostereograms lends itself to the networking constraints and page layout freedom characteristic of the Web. There are wonderful opportunities for making science and art interesting and accessible to wide audiences.