LOOK lenticular

[P3D Alexa R.W. Smith <arws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!  Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who sent me info on the LOOK 
lenticulars and thought the group might find this description of how they were 
made interesting.  It is from a Time magazine article in 1964:

"...A specially designed camera takes pictures through a transparent screen that
is serrated to break up the image into hair-thin vertical slices.  The camera is
then moved slightly to the right or left, as other, sliced-up pictures are taken
on the same negative.
    ....took two full days of work with a one-ton, cubical camera as complicated
as an electronic computer....Five additional weeks were required to engrave the 
photograph, print it some 7,000,000 times on a sheet-fed offset press and then 
pour on and properly shape the clear plastic film that covers the picture with 
what amounts to a collection of lenses.  The plastic lenses are so arranged that
the viewer's left eye sees one of the serrated pictures, the right eye sees the 
other."

I am now tracking these down so I can actually see them <smile> but they sound 
pretty interesting!

Alexa



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