Ancient Web: Muttyan's Stereo Homepage Kept Three-Dimensional Photos Editable

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Muttyan's homepage treats a three-dimensional photograph as something you can make, fix, convert, and display yourself, rather than a special effect requiring an expensive proprietary system.

Visit Muttyan's stereoscopic tools.

The English version of the Japanese personal site dates its beginning to April 13, 2003. It first greets visitors with a simple invitation to enjoy stereoscopic imaging programs. The top-level gateway still asks readers to select a national flag for their language and links an older version of the homepage.

The software directory is a timeline in miniature. StereoPhoto Maker, or SPM, is presented as a versatile stereo-image editor and viewer. StereoMovie Maker and StereoMovie Player handle video, while StereoSlide Show combines still images, short clips, sounds, and transitions. Other utilities align pairs of left-eye and right-eye pictures or convert image formats.

The hardware changed but the paired pictures remained

Early entries retain old dates: stereogram galleries from 2003, a JavaScript panorama project from 2006, and Stereo WEB Browser MISAKI from 2009. Later material introduces smartphone apps, HTML5 viewers, macOS tools, Chrome extensions, and stereoscopic video editing through FFmpeg.

The point is not that every program runs on current operating systems. It is that the author kept documentation of the changes as the same basic visual problem traveled across devices.

The archive also contains links to stereo galleries, movie samples, and a stereoscopic 3D webring. That old-fashioned webring footer is another surviving reminder of how communities of specialists linked their own sites before platform recommendation systems.

The homepage's update dates extend into 2026, including programs for depth maps and 3D Gaussian-splatting images. Those updates do not erase the earlier software. The page still shows old releases and their descriptions side by side with new tools.

Because the collection spans many years, it is misleading to call the entire current site a pristine 2003 snapshot. Its preservation value is precisely the opposite: it shows a long-running hobby programming effort continuing to solve the same task through multiple technological eras.

Browse the English software catalog and the language-selecting original homepage.

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