Anaglyph configuration

[P3D Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Marvin Jones wrote:
> > They are not even standard anaglyph glasses, because
> > the two colors are reversed from the normal configuration. I don't know
how
> > many people I've talked to who think one pair of glasses from any of
the
> > sponsors (or a pair they have from an old comic book) will work for all
the
> > shows.
> 
> Dan Symmes (the CEO of Dimension 3 which is promoting the red on the
right 
> format) is obviously sensitive to this confusion.  Every anaglyph image
> on his web site <www.3dcompany.com> has the following message 
> "View with RED lens over RIGHT eye!" in flashing text beside the image.

I'm sure he is sensitive to it. I made similar comments a few weeks ago on
P3D about the red/right being non-standard and, although I don't think Dan
is even a subscriber to the list, almost immediately I received a
startlingly angry personal E-mail from him insisting that there was
absolutely no such thing as a "standard" configuration, that his research
proved that the vast majority of people much preferred the red on the
right, and implying that I was stuck to the red/left idea because I was a
mindless snob (my words, not his, but certainly his implication). True
enough, I don't believe any states have yet passed laws requiring the red
lens to be on the left, and in the "old days" it was somewhat
interchangeable. (The old MGM Audioscoptiks film, for instance, was printed
red/right.) But I've seen a lot of anaglyph publications and movies in the
last 40 or 50 years, and I think the only ones I have EVER seen in that
time that were red/right were ones that Dan was involved in.


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