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Re: 3-D an illusion? Certainly not!

  • From: P3D Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: 3-D an illusion? Certainly not!
  • Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:26:57 -0400
Dr. George A. Themelis wrote:
> 
> I am often amused and sometimes annoyed by those who call stereo an
> illusion.  So, I created a slide to demonstrate that 2D is an illusion
> instead.


Not to get too metaphysical here, but it can be readily argued that all
vision and audition is an illusion, as only a narrow part of the
spectrum is being processed, and we're only getting a slice of the
"actual nature" of the stimuli...

Eric G.


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