Re: Those Who Cannot See or Enjoy 3-D

[P3D Joshua Rubin <jnr@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is a wonderful story.  Congratulations on your persistence and your
vision.  I can really imagine how happy you must have felt.  It's joyful
just to read it.  Thanks.

Josh

At 12:07 AM 10/17/97 -0500, Bob Stern  wrote:
>I've had close encounters with those who cannot see 3-D.  Both my intern at
>work and my wife are stereo blind due to strabismus.  This is an all too
>common eye disease which can be best described as a deviation of one of the
>eyes from its proper direction, so that the visual axes cannot be directed
>simultaneously at the same objective point (from strabbos, meaning squint or
>twisted).  This causes faulty depth perception and certainly stereo
>blindness.  I, of course am most distressed that my wife cannot enjoy my
>interest in stereography and stereo collecting with me.  Until recently, it
>was thought that strabismus was an unnnatural legnthening or shortening of
>the eye muscles and a corrective surgery could be effective.  My wife
>underwent four such sugical procedures and my young intern one such.  None
>of these operations corrected the situation.  Both these people wear
>corrective eyeglasses which contain prisms which flatten their visual
>effects, otherwise they would see double.  Last week I read an article in
>the newspaper that a doctor in California has discovered that strabismus
>isn't a muscular disorder after all.  It's rather a loosening of the tissue
>surrounding the eye that otherwise would keep the eye in proper alignment
>while orbiting within visual axes.  Not much in the article, just the
finding.
>I, being typical of our ilk, insisted that both my wife and my young intern
>will see the beauty of stereo photography lest I have a stroke.  I used the
>Stereo Theatre.  I loaded a magazine of slides and told them to go slowly,
>and use both the focus and interocular control.  My wife went first.
>Several slides passed and finally she said, "Is that what you see?".  I felt
>so very elated.  She saw it finally.  This poor girl was with me at
>Rochester and will also be at Richmond (she's volunteered for the
>registration desk).  She sat through the slide shows and used the polarizing
>glasses to see merely one image.  To her it was simply a slide show.  She
>had to enjoy it on a monocular level.  I wish there was a way for me to mark
>her calibration of the Stereo Theatre and create a polarizing lens askew in
>the correct way for her to enjoy (my and) the NSA slide shows.
>My young intern Michael went next.  He slouched over the viewer.  One slide,
>then the next.  Suddenly, "Oh Wow!!!  Bob!!  I see it!! Its Awwwwsome!!
>Gimmee more!!"  What a great night that was.  It was actually moving.  Not
>that this is all so pertinant to Dr T's posting, but I've never related this
>story before with my P3D friends, and this seemed an appropriate time.
>Best,
>Bob
>                 Bob Stern
>
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