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Archival Photo Parallax
A documentary 2.5D photo move: a code-drawn sepia print of a harbour lies on a desk, the camera pushes into it, the picture parts into sky, shore, boat and quay layers with true parallax, grain and dust stay locked to the print, and a serif caption sets in the lower third.
Written and rendered by AI CSS Animations Nov 2, 2026
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- prompt
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- Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code
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- three.js
- Topics
- Photos · 3D · Explainer
About this style
Documentary filmmakers have long brought still photographs to life with slow pans and zooms, a technique popularly tied to Ken Burns and his 1990 series The Civil War. The 2.5D or parallax version cuts a photo into foreground, subject and background layers, fills in what each layer hid, and moves a virtual camera through them so the flat picture gains depth. The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) is often cited as the film that made the look famous, and it is now a staple of history documentaries and museum films.
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