re: Lenticular eagle image

[P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Talbot writes

>The entire underside of the near wing is clearly visible, and the far
>wing points toward the sky at about a 60 degree angle from horizontal.
>The near wing gives the appearance of extending quite high above the
>surface of the print.

As I have mentioned in my last post, the one I have is the 6X4 inch
one. I went and dug it out of the archives (closet) and examined it 
again. Definitely the larger image is more pronounced, which I don't 
have. On the smaller version the wing tip protruding off the surface of
the print was readily noticable by viewing it with +3 reading glasses.
I don't wear glasses normally but use them to view 3D prints enlarged.
I prefer this over the antique stereo viewers, which most are very
restricting. When I spotted the wing protrusion and I went back to read
your original post, I noticed you mention the same thing. Good
observations and quite accurate report on your part.
As Martin Simon mentions quite a few have been produced over the years
especially in the sixties and seventies. Most were very well done.
In general I would rate 80% of them excellent, in terms of lenticular
3D quality. They featured varied subjects from animals to space to 
religious themes. From what I can judge from the ealgle lent it looks
like a stuffing to me. Very well done stuffing that is. I have another
one with a tiger on a tree trunk that is running horizontally. The tiger
is looking down from the trunk. In this one, it looks like the tiger is
real. Of course the vantage point is a bit farther than the eagle.
There also some other ones with 3 rabbits and a butterfly flying in the
air. A few other well done ones are of surfers, and even one of fish
swimming near some coral. The one of Buzz Aldrin on the moon is also
nice. Buzz himself looks cutout but the lunar surface is very well done
and looks realistic, receding into the background.
Sadly enough even thou lenticular technology has progressed tremendously,
this hasn't translated into readily available consumer lents as in the 
past. There are excellent lents made for commercial purposes.
Alot of these lents from the sixties are still being made as reproductions.
A store downtown still has some from the seventies. They used to have quite
a few, but are now left to 3 different varieties. They are selling them
for 25 cents Cdn. These are 4x6 inches and feature a flower in a vase,
another with two birds perched on some fruit tree and another children's
lent. I think these go for about $2 nowadays. If anybody is interested,
I could check if they still have them (they have for quite a few years,
over 10yr) and get them for 25 cents plus postage. I think these are 
70's stock. I would rate them as good plus. On the back of the card it
says Distributed in Canada by:world Wide Sales Agencies LTD., Montreal,
Canada. Now that we are discussing lents that last few days, I remember
when I was young the backlit lenticulars were very popular.

On a final lenticular note, I've read that McDonald's Restaurants in
Australia had featured flip action lents from the movie Hunchback of
Notre-Dame. 

Gabriel

 


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