re: 3d bear!

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:25:45 -0600
>From: P3D bob wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ........ writes:
>   It's marked as "Gilmore Designs" although it was marketed under
>a different name (I forget what). It was supposedly a 2 year limited
>run (I don't know if it came out the second Christmas or not as I
>had two already!).
>
>The bear's little card is really quite accurate, being a curved
>light gray mount with arched panels showing Santa and Reindeer under
>a moonlit sky. Unfortunately, it's not stereo!

**************  What a beautiful product. Now if someone would please supply
them with a stereo card to use with it, it would even become authentic. The
conversion of such a simple and small scene wouldn't be hard to do....

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>  I was also surprised at the depth of field the scanner ( a HP ScanJet IIcx)
>exhibited. I'm not quite sure why the depth is there, even. I would have
>thought that with in order to avoid document distorsion (keystoning?) they
>would go to great lengths (to coin a phrase) to generate an ortho image.

**************  Is the depth of field due to the scanning process? Could it
be somewhat similar to some of the processes in a Scanning Electron
Microscope that give that device's images such great depth of field?

Thanks for posting the 3D Bear!

Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
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