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Generate A Trippy Three Dimensional GIF From Any Picture

The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci

If you’ve ever wanted to convert the Mona Lisa into a 3D animated GIF where that famous smile is turned into a rotating globulus abstract form, then today is your lucky day. Vince Mckelvie has built a WebGL based website called 3dGif that instantly transforms any two dimensional image into a three dimensional, trippy animation. 

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Choose any image, be it GIF file, JPEG, or PNG, then paste the URL into the bar found in the upper right-hand corner of the site and then hit “gO!”. The WebGL works its magic and textures a 3D setting with your image, consisting of a rotating cube and a strange mutating form at its center. Then just sit back and watch your Friday workload mount up while you watch the resulting visuals and experience a little bit of vertigo.

Check out some stills below which show some of the world’s most famous paintings converted into animated 3D GIFs.


Mark, Chuck Close


Yellow-Red-Blue, Wassily Kandinsky


3 Women, Fernand Leger


No. 8, Mark Rothko


Scull, Jean-Michel Basquiat

Note: 3dGif works best with Chrome

[via TRIANGULATION Blog]

All images courtesy of WikiPaintings