Re: Speaking of KODAK

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Dalia wrote:
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>>For those who didn't see it.  One could see the scene in 3D without using
>glasses.  But it didn't look like a lenticular. Just another 3D product
>Kodak ever developed.
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>Bill Davis responds:
>Yes, I know who made it, had him over for a slide show last weekend, as a
matter
>of fact.  It was designed and built by Bill Ewald, the Mr. Stereo of Kodak
>during his nearly 40 years in product development.  This is a tabletop rear
>projection stereo viewer for Realist-format slides.  It projects through a 
>fresnel lens onto specially prepared ground glass.  This allows one to view 
>in stereo without glasses.  Pretty cool, huh?
>
>As you suggest, it was just another 3D product Kodak never developed.  If you
>have any specific questions about the device, I can forward them to Bill.  He 
>designed and built several other stereo-related items that Kodak never
developed
>including a really nifty push-button/joystick projector, but that's another
story.


What sort of Fresnel lens? How *special* was the ground glass? Is there
information on this anywhere in print?

This sounds like something that should have caught more attention! We really
shouldn't let the *corporations* make all our tool development decisions for
us!!! Their purposes don't always result is what is best for actual people
or circumstances. There is a whole *lost culture* originating from our own
modern age in all the technologies that get ignored or otherwise
undeveloped. No need to go back to ancient history to find lost civilizations!!!

Larry Berlin

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