This is a fun and interesting thing. Look up "depth mapping", it is a way to do fake 3-D imaging. Fortunately for me another chap, Don Sauer, did the hard work and wrote a GIMP script that does the job. I quickly ginned up a couple of quick faux stereos without being at all careful. I think they turned out rather well. I'll bookmark this for more experimentation and more careful application on my part in the future.

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