Re: Re: one eyed 3D

[P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:23 PM -0700 6/11/97, P3D Gabriel Jacob wrote:
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>But your comment about the birds, makes me wonder another aspect. If the
>bird's eyes are located on the sides, can they see in stereo. I am thinking
>there might not be any overlap, between the corresponding eyes.
>

I just asked a guy in the lab who's done a lot of work on sound
localization in owls.  Owls & other birds of prey have quite good stereo, &
even pigeons (who have quite lateral eyes) have some in the region of
overlap though it's very coarse.

-Jim C.


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