P3D Albert Richards takes first prize in VRex "Best Pair" Contest

[Len Cardillo <cardillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

VRex thanks all the great stereographers who made their first "Best Pair"
contest a success, and we invite you to see the winners' and finalists' work
in the "Best Pair" gallery at

http://www.3dexpo.com

Entries ranged from the scientific, with hand-sketched micro-organisms and
exploding static charged water balloons, to the sublime, with mountain
panoramas a favorite; very few entries had people in them.  In helping judge
the entries, the profile of the average stereographer which emerged (IMO) is
a male residing on the west coast who is interested in science, vacations in
the mountains, and can't persuade his family or friends to model for him.
Here are the winners:

Albert Richards teamed primitive beauty with advanced imaging  to capture
the first prize of $500.  His entry, "Easter Lily: A Floral Radiograph"
rendered a beautifully simple form found in nature, an Easter Lily, with a
stereoscopic x-ray technique.  Albert's appreciation of the principles of
stereoscopy was evident in the composition of the image. 

Second and third prizes of VRex Depth Charge Developer Studio software were
awarded, repectively to John Baird for "Color Girl" and to Michael Williams
for "Mt. San Jacinto".

In contrast with the state-of-the-art techniques used by our first prize
winner, the age-old technique of hand sketching won Carolyn Gast an
Honorable Mention for her entry "An Isopod Named Ceratolana Papuae".
Carolyn is a scientific illustrator talented with the truly rare skill of
hand sketching left and right perspectives of biological organisms, a skill
developed during her tenure at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of
Natural History.    

VRex congratulates our winners and all the finalists whose excellent work
appears in the "Best Pair" gallery.

Len Cardillo




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