Stereographs go digital

The Digital Art Wall in the Learning Commons has a mesmerizing new look. David Sharron, Shauna Ribaric and Mike Tisi from Brock’s Special Archives and Collections worked together to create Wigglegrams, which features historic photographs of Niagara Falls that are modernized using current-day software. The stereograph images of the falls from the era of the mid to late 1800s were part of the University’s archives. Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image when viewed through a stereoscope. There is no such viewer in the library, but the Systems and Technology department developed a process that overlaps and animates the images, which creates the desired 3D illusion.