Generating Stereo Anaglyphs with ImageMagick

When generating a pair of stereoscopic images, it’s useful to have a way of testing the disparity and overall quality without having to put on an HMD device. ImageMagick provides a set of tools that allow performing a wide range of image processing. Amongst other things it allows creating Red-Cyan anaglyphs of stereo image pairs.

The tool is very intuitive to use:

Below, you can see a stereo anaglyph of left and right eye images I generated using my own renderer XTracer, and fused together using ImageMagick.

Red-Cyan stereo glasses are required to properly view the stereo image.