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Re: stuff (3D for the masses)


  • From: P3D Gregory J. Wageman <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: stuff (3D for the masses)
  • Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:45:19 -0700


Dr. T. writes:

>IMO, the viewer is the weak link in the system.  If "free-hand" means
>freeview (view without the use of any device) then I believe that it is
>very difficult or almost impossible for the average snapshooter to learn
>how to do it.  Here we have dedicated stereo photographers who still cannot
>freeview.

Then how do you explain the ridiculous popularity of those random-dot
stereogram books?  Seeing those images requires a facility very similar,
if not identical, to freeviewing stereo pairs.

If most people can't do it, who bought all those books?

	-Greg


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