Re: Library of Congress award winner

[P3D Andrew Woods <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam L. Beckerman  <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Library of Congress is awarding libraries grants as part of 
> its National Digital Library Initiative.  One of the winners is the 
> New York Public Library to digitize:
> 
> Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis 
> Collection, 1850-1910
>
[snip]
> 
> People will be able to look at the
> photographs stereoscopically at their computer terminals with
> inexpensive plastic viewers.

This sounds like suspiciously like anaglyph.  But when I looked at the 
web pages mentioned, all the images were parallel (wall-eyed) free-view.  
Perhaps the inexpensive plastic viewers they refer to are the lens type 
viewers.  

Fortunately these type of viewers do help people like me view wall-eyed
pairs, but each particular pair of glasses is usually tuned to a 
particular image separation.
Maintaining the same image separation for all images and on the 
various types of monitors will be impossible.

Maybe someone should introduce them to the wonders of JPS...?
But it is a pity that DepthCharge is only Win95/NT presently.

Andrew.


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