Re: Techies and 3D

[P3D Cliff Mugnier <cjmce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

P3D Dr. George A. Themelis wrote:

> >How could 3D have happened had it not been for a techie?
> >Brenda
>
> I think photography was invented by chemists.  The first
> stereoscopic images (drawings) were commissioned by a physicist
> (Wheatstone, 1938).  The first stereoscopic photographs were
> commissioned by a physicist and taken by chemists.  It was a
> scientist that worked hard to make stereo popular (Brewster).
> An engineer dreamed and designed the Stereo Realist (Rochwite)
> and an engineering firm marketed it (David White).  Today,
> the President of the Detroit Stereographic Society is a
> computer programmer and the President of the OhiO Stereo
> Photographic Society is an engineer (the VP is a retired
> engineer). Paul Wing is a retired engineer (a well-known one).
> H. Lee Pratt (past Chairman of the PSA Stereo Division) is
> a PhD "rocket scientist".
>
> Hey, it is techies all the way through!
>
> Curiously, Kodachrome was invented by two musicians.
>
> I still don't know what photographers have to do with it! :-)
>
> -- George Themelis
>
> "You don't need a PhD to get started in stereo photography,
> but it helps if you have one!" (DrT, "Famous Quotes")
>
> "It was the beginning of 1839, about six months after the
> appearance of my memoir in the Philosophical Transactions,
> that the photographic art became known, and soon after, at
> my request, Mr. Talbot, the inventor, and Mr. Collen [one of
> the first cultivators of the art] obligingly prepared for me
> stereoscopic Talbotypes of full-size statues, buildings, and
> even portraits of living persons."  [Wheatstone, 1852]

  At the height of the Cold War, in the late 60's, the Chief of
Scientific Development for the Department of Defense with respect to
Stereo Spy Satellites was a guy with a Master's Degree in Music.  He was
quite good at what he did, I never heard him play music.


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