Patent ID: 8693055

Claim:
A method for providing a printed dynamic anaglyph image comprising: determining left eye information and right eye information representing different perspectives of the same scene; accessing data describing color characteristics of mutable colorants that have spectral absorption characteristics that can be transitioned between a first colorant state and a second colorant state by application of an external stimulus and non-mutable colorants that cannot be transitioned between a first colorant state and a second colorant state by application of the external stimulus with the colorant type map; analyzing the left eye information and right eye information with an image processor to determine a difference map that defines regions of image difference between the left eye information and the right eye information; analyzing the difference map to determine a colorant type map that selectively defines first image regions within the difference map image regions for which a specified plurality of the colorants includes at least one of the mutable colorants having spectral absorption characteristics that can be transitioned between a first colorant state and a second colorant state by application of the external stimulus and at least one of the non-mutable colorant further defines second image regions to be printed with only non-mutable colorants; and defining a print specification for the printed dynamic anaglyph image from the colorant type map; wherein the at least one mutable colorant and the at least one non-mutable colorant in the colorant type map are selected so that the printed dynamic anaglyph image has a first appearance state in which the at least one mutable colorant is in the first colorant state and is color matched to at least one of the left eye information and the right eye information; and wherein the at least one mutable colorant and the at least one non-mutable colorant in the colorant type map are selected so that the printed dynamic anaglyph image has a second appearance state when the mutable colorant is in a second colorant state in which the at least one mutable colorant provides a color that spectrally overlaps a spectral filter in one eye of a pair of stereo color glasses so that three dimensional effects can be perceived.