Patent ID: 8908020

Claim:
A printed dynamic anaglyph design apparatus comprising: a source of left eye information and right eye information; a memory having 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; a processor adapted to analyze the left eye information and right eye information to determine a colorant type map that defines regions of image difference between the left eye information and the right eye information and to define a print specification for a printed dynamic anaglyph image with first image regions printed with a plurality of colorants including at least one of the mutable colorants and at least one of the non-mutable colorants and with second image regions printed with only non-mutable colorant; with the processor further being adapted to store the print specification in the memory; 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 either the left eye information or the right eye information; and wherein the at least one mutable colorant and the at least one non-mutable colorant in the difference regions are selected so that the printed dynamic anaglyph image has a second appearance state in which the at least one 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.