re: anaglyph why?

[P3D Wolfie! <werewolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'd say that nobody really LIKES anaglyph (but I could be wrong!), it's
> just that it's the cheapest way to get a 3D effect to the viewer using
> existing technology (video, print, etc), being that it takes no
> significant modification to the information delivery vehicle and the
> glasses are cheap to produce...there's also the "benefit" that it
> doesn't require any sophistication on the part of the viewer regarding
> freeview vs cross-eyed, etc. (benefits of the more expensive polarization,
> lcs, and so forth technology as well).

ok, I understand that...
I just remembered a very good anaglyph movie that I once saw.
it was shown at expo '88 [Brisbane, Australia] and was done by a computer
in Japan, I forget the company. but it was really very well done.

> >However, I *have* found it's much easier now to explain to people 
> >what freeviewing is since the advent of the SIRDS posters, etc. 
> 
> I agree wholeheartedly...

Me too "Just like those Magic Eye books"
however, not many of my friends can see those either.

I remember going to a computer club and looking at some colour SIRDS
images on a computer. one guy folded his arms and laughed because we
suckers who were buying those stupid books were obviously being conned as
he had looked and obviously there was nothing there.

I told him that I could not only see them but could also make them and
a friend backed me up. :)

Interestingly enough a vietnamese friend couldn't see the slides in my
little viewer. I had seen a TV show years before that described how asians
couldn't wear contacts because the surface of their eyes is different and
the contact lenses kind of slide off the cornea.
I wondered if his eyes were so different that the viewer was no good to
him.

Take Care!

Wolfie!
 


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