3d illusion in motion and VeeYou filter

I'm currently playing around with the free FX Factory "VeeYou" plugin and am trying to get it to have the illusion of 3D. Playing around with the grid texture and sliding the depth up gives a very cool illusion, until you try a camera sweep on the Y or Z axis and realize it's a still 2d image.

doing some research on the apple boards, I've heard of some throwing the extrude filter on text. I tried it on the VeeYou, and it works to some degree, but the result's aren't working too well; looks pretty funky.

Any ideas or suggestions on where to explore?