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Version 1.1
32-Bit for Windows
© 2006
Freeware for home use
Page last modified: July 27, 2006
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Introduction

Doddle is your one-stop program to generate quality anaglyphs and stereoscopic Jpegs for use with Andreas Petersik's Stereoscope Java Applet. It has all you need to align, resize and crop your stereo photograph pairs without the need for an expensive graphics program. Generating anaglyphs and stereoscopic Jpegs is now a ... doddle.

Motivation

I have used different software to create anaglyphs. None had all the features I wanted, like resize and rotation. And the generation of stereoscopic jpegs has always been a bit cumbersome. So I decided to make it a ... doddle.

Features

Doddle boasts the following features:

• Load from relevant formats (screenshot)
  • Load separate image files or just one that holds both images.
  • Loads images in jpeg, bitmap and jps (stereoscopic jpeg) format.
  • Swap left and right images at any time on the click of a button.
• Save (screenshot)
  • Saves analglyphs or stereoscopic jpegs
  • Saves separate image files for future work in either bitmap or jpeg format
• Alignment of the images (screenshot)
  • Use mouse to align images
  • Put your red/cyan goggles on to see the effect straight away
  • Mirror image
  • Rotate image 90° clockwise or anti-clockwise
  • Rotate image 180°
  • Rotate one image until it fits perfectly over the other (0.1° increments)
• Crop to select the area of the final image (screenshot)
  • Overlapping area selected for you
  • Resize overlap area by dragging the border with the mouse
• Resize both images (screenshot)
  • Resize to achieve a certain percentage or give dimensions
  • Arbitrary aspect ratio
  • Choose resample filter for quality resize
    • Box
    • Triangle
    • Hermite
    • Bell
    • B-spline
    • Lanczos3
    • Mitchell
• Analgyph (screenshot)
  • Red/cyan full colour
  • Red/cyan full colour (desaturated)
  • Red/cyan greyscale
  • Red/cyan greyscale red
• Advanced options (screenshot)
  • Choose greyscale algorithm
    • normal red/green/blue=30/59/11 - algorithm
    • by desaturating the image
  • Save settings like anaglyph method and resample filter

Usage

Doddel works by holding two images in memory, the image for the left eye, called left image, and the image for the right eye, called the right image.

The left image is pinned to the canvas of the program, many functions work with the right image only. This is not a restriction, as you can swap left and right image at any time.

Now align them by dragging the right image over the left, and by rotating the right image until you achieve a satisfactory result.

There will be an area now that overlaps, and it is that area that you can make a 3D image of. You have to select this area. Click the Crop button. A dashed line will mark the overlapping area. You can resize it to cut of unwanted margins, then press the Cut button.

Once you have aligned and cropped your images, you can either save them into individual files again, or you can save them into one file, either an anaglyph or a stereoscopic jpeg.

Scroll down to download the manual in PDF format.

Installation

Unzip into any directory and provide a link to it on your desktop or anywhere you like.

History

late July 2006: release of version 1.1. Several alterations. Addition of shell integration.

July 2006: release of version 1.0

Download

Doddle is freeware for home use. A donation is much appreciated and encourages future work.

Doddle installation files: Setup.Doddle.1.1.exe (692kB)

Doddle user manual: Doddle.1.1.manual.pdf (1,354kB)