'Klops,' aquatic alien females and landscape anaglyph CGI at 3d-screen.com

Editorial control can be a lot of work (believe me, I know), but the lack of it can kill an otherwise promising website.

3D Screen is a sort of public bulletin board of 3-D anaglyph images, sorted into categories including Movies, People, Sci-Fi, Flowers, Sports, and the most popular section, Misc. It is worth taking a look, but probably not worth a return visit. I'm afraid the site is not well put together, and not edited at all. There are 222 pictures there, which is a respectable size for an online gallery, but they are a mixed bag: some are good, some are mundane, some are awful. Little or no information is ever given about the artwork, or the artists, not even their names. New uploads seem to be very infrequent, about one a month.

I spotted quite a few stolen images, so of course I suspect there are many more that I didn't spot. For example, this microscopic photo of calcite crystals was ripped off from the Structure Probe Inc. catalogue, with no attribution whatsoever. This sort of theft is common to bulletin board websites, and the administrators seldom have the inclination or the resources to police it, causing the whole gallery to be tainted with doubt as to whether any of the content can be trusted.

There are mechanisms in place to rate and comment on the works, but there is no good reason to do so, when the artist himself has not commented on it, nor given his name or any other profile information, and may not ever come back to read your commentary, and may not even be the real artist at all.

Unsafe content warning: One section is labeled "Adult," where the images are pornographic. It was a commendable impulse by the site developer, to have such content filed in its own category, where people who don't want to see such pictures (or are not allowed to see them where they are) can avoid them by not viewing that category. But then, they go and ruin it by having random thumbnail images at the top of every page. The random images are pulled from all the categories, including the "Adult," so you are liable to get porn at the top of any page you look at! This regrettable scripting mistake makes it an unsafe website, rather than a safe website with an unsafe section.

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Many of them really are awesome, but I think you’re being a bit too generous.This site is the best! I have already told all of my friends and co workers about it!

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