New York Botanical Garden Bronx 3D (Three-Dimensional) Photos - Anaglyph Stereo Method
New York City 3D Photos - New York Botanical Garden, Bronx
New York Botanical Garden Anaglyph Stereo 3D Photos
The New York Botanical Garden is a prestigious botanical garden in New York City. One of the premier botanical gardens in the United States, it spans some 240 acres of Bronx Park in the borough of The Bronx and is home to some of the world's leading plant laboratories.
The Garden was founded in 1891 on part of the grounds of the Belmont Estate, formerly owned by the tobacco magnate Pierre Lorillard, after a fund-raising campaign led by Columbia University botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, who was inspired to emulate the Royal Botanic Gardens in London.
The Garden is located at East 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard and contains 48 different gardens and plant collections. Sightseers can easily spend a day admiring the serene cascade waterfall, wetlands and a 50 acre (200,000 m²) tract of never-harvested oaks, American beeches, cherry, birch, tulip and white ash trees - some more than two centuries old.
Garden highlights include an 1890's-vintage, wrought-iron framed, "crystal-palace style" greenhouse by Lord & Burnham; the Peggy Rockefeller memorial rose garden (originally laid out by Beatrix Farrand in 1916); a Japanese rock garden; a 37 acre (150,000 m²) conifer collection extensive research facilities including a propagation center, 50,000-volume library, and a herbarium archive of hundreds of thousands of botanical specimens dating back more than a century. At the heart of the Garden are 40 acres (162,000 m²) of virgin woodlands which represent the last stretch of the original forest which covered all of New York City before the arrival of European settlers in the 17th century. The forest itself is split by the Bronx River and includes a riverine canyon and rapids, and along its shores sits the landmark Lorillard snuff-grinding mill dating back to the 1840's.
Anaglyph Stereo 3D method
What is Anaglyph 3D
Anaglyph images contain two differently colored images, one for each eye, which, when viewed through "anaglyph glasses" containing color filters, deliver an integrated stereoscopic image. The visual cortex of the brain fuses this into perception of a three dimensional scene or composition.
Viewing
A pair of eyeglasses with two filters of the same colors used on the camera (or simulated by image processing software manipulations) is worn by the viewer. In the case above the red lens over the left eye allows only the cyan part of the anaglyph image through to that eye, while the cyan (blue/green) lens over the right eye allows only the red part of the image through to that eye. Portions of the image that are red will appear dark through the cyan filter, while cyan portions will appear dark through the red filter. Each eye therefore sees only the perspective it is supposed to see.
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