P3D Re: Eidetikers

[Andrew Woods <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Wier wrote:
>November, 1970 Psychology Today magazine (not a typo on that date).
...
>An experiment was designed where test subjects were shown two sections
>of a 10,000 dot SIRDS image (each eye separately, separated by 24 hours). 
>One of the test subjects was able to "project" the images together and
>bring up the 3-D image (a floating square above the surface), whereas it
>had not been seen with the individual image(s).
>
>Pretty remarkable, eh? I was also surprised because I didn't think
>that SIRDS were really well known before the mid 80's or so.

The earliest reference I knew of to SIRDS was Bela Julesz's 1971 book
"Foundations of Cyclopean Perception" (University of Chicago Press, Chicago).
Presumably he had earlier paper which also referred to SIRDS.
I have a faint recollection that Bela was the inventer of SIRDS but I
could be wrong...

Andrew Woods              http://info.curtin.edu.au/~iwoodsa


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