Super Spy Decoder

A super spy decoder can help us work our way up to retro color-filter 3D glasses. If we make an image with different color Crayola (or similar) markers, how does this image look when viewed through a color filter?

We’ll see that if we make the right choices, we can make a secret message decoder. The secret message will be written in a color that can be seen through the filter, while the rest of the image is made using colors that are obscured by the filter.

A bunch of colors with three choices of plastic colored filter films.

We will learn that in an anaglyph, you have two copies of an image, offset a bit, where each eye sees only one of the two. The decoder example hints at how we will achieve this:

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Anaglyphs & Stereograms: Introduction