Anaglyph colors reversed

[P3D Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >Had a small e-mail discussion with them about why they choose to 
> >reverse their anaglyphs, and their response was basically that about 2 
> >out of every 10 people have problems with anaglyphs made the way I and 
> >most others make them, and by simply reversing the lenses, they were 
> >able to eliminate the problem. (Hummm??? I still think they are trying 
> >to make it a proprietary thing...)
> 
> *********  I think they are crazy. I regularly try things like using the
> colors reversed and find that I don't like the reversed colors but it
works.
> If anyone has problems with anaglyphic images they will likely have
problems
> with it done either way. Reversing the colors for a TV special is a way
to
> automatically alienate the other 80% of the audience who are used to
using
> the glasses the other way around. This is sure to generate complaints and
> maybe that is their hidden purpose, artificially generate and encourage
> responses of any kind.
> 
I suspect that the television people are using red on the right not because
of any scientific research, nor as a proprietary thing, but simply because
they didn't concern themselves enough with 3D history to know any better.
But Larry does bring up an interesting question. 99% of all anaglyphs are
red/left. However, for some weird reason the Universal-8 home versions of
Creature from the Black Lagoon and It Came from Outer Space were red/right
(I assume the 16mm and 35mm conversions were also from the same source,
although I haven't seen them). Like Larry, I found watching them recently
at a club meeting a little disconcerting. The color combination just didn't
seem as natural as anaglyph usually does. I don't really view enough
anaglyph for these films to "feel wrong" simply because they are different.
I wonder if there is actually some psychological or physiological reason
why we respond more comfortably to the red image being on the left?


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