Re: stuff (3D for the masses)

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>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.
>
>Gregory Wageman writes:
>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.

I think you are right, Greg. The only problem is that many who finally were
able to see stereograms don't know that what they were doing is the same
thing as free-viewing stereo pairs. A bit of additional education will cure
that but not the large number of people who still can't see stereograms or
who find the process difficult. For that group, a good viewer is still needed. 

Stereograms were relatively unfriendly in that they didn't provide viewers
for those who couldn't figure out the method. That's one critical weakness
in the marketing of stereograms that could have been but never was fixed.
(The inexpensive devices exist but weren't accepted by the publishers who
figured they didn't need it... it's their loss.)

Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.sonic.net/~lberlin/


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