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Re: Binocular vs. Stereoscopic

  • From: P3D William Carter <wc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Binocular vs. Stereoscopic
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:24:45 -0700 (PDT)
The gracious Doctor clarifies:

>But, chances are that the microscope with the turret and three skinny
>objectives shown in a scene from the IMAX 3D film "Four Million 
>Houseguests" is NOT a stereo microscope.

Sigh.. Of course your right. And one of my greatest disappointments as a
young lad was when I first looked in a binoculars microscope and saw... 2-D!
This had to be the jape of the Decade. We are talking April, May, June,
July, and August Fool. Life couldn't be so bleak, so absurd, so un-fair!

Well, I couldn't bear the horror of it. So now that's all been fixed.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool. 
       -- Sam Waterson, Calvin and Hobbes, 1994


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