Re: SIRDS vs "Real 3D"

[P3D Marvin Jones <72657.3276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am still not sure why the random stereogram concept reached such
> proportions.  A good book with computer generated images like the ones
> found in "3D Museum" is much more interesting but would never match the
> public response shown to random stereograms.  Why?  Beats me!
> 
Several people here have advanced the theory, which seems quite sound to me,
that SIRDS were so popular because they were not a "passive" image. The viewer
had to WORK to see them, and could give him/herself a false sense of superiority
to friends who could not make them work. With 3D Museum, you look through the
viewer and there's the picture. wow. With a stereogram, you work and you try and
you adjust and you work some more, and suddenly ... THERE'S THE PICTURE!!!!!!!
WOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!! That's why they were popular.


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