When I first began making stereograms in 1996, the Internet was the furthest thing from my mind. Two years later, I got connected. With low expectations, I typed "stereograms" into a search engine for the first time, and was amazed how much came up. At that point, my stereograms weren't bad, and I was tempted to put up my own site.

A year later I was able to get a cable connection with 10Mb of space, and use basic Web design skills to post the first version of what I called, Color Stereo. To my astonishment, I got so much traffic, it used up the meager bandwidth allowed by my ISP. So I took the big plunge and took out my own domain.

Meanwhile, I'd come up with a technique for adding a volumetric look to the paper cutout look common to stereo-field type stereograms. This prompted me to add a second set of galleries which I called Second SIRDS, and I called the first galleries: Color Stereo 1. Later, I added the Third Eye galleries when I began integrating stereo-photographic elements into my images. In fact, I can't seem to stop adding different galleries. If nothing else, it helps keep me organized, and saves viewers from being presented with one huge dull list. Think of it as an art museum that keeps adding wings from wealthy donors... I wish.

As a result, Color Stereo has evolved into something I would never design from the ground up in my present stage of Web design skills. However, it is my wish to reach as many viewers, with as many different platform, connection speed, monitor size, and screen resolutions as possible, and this setup works better than complicated multimedia pages. Besides, we stereogram viewers get innate 3-D.

Despite the remarkable amount of visitors from all over the world, people still usually give blank stares when I mention stereograms. My mission is twofold: use this site to inform the public about stereograms, and take stereograms from a visual curiosity into acceptance as a New Age art form. I'm not saying that many of my stereograms are art, but that is the direction I wish to head. Last but not least, I wish to bring some pleasure to my visitors.