P3D Re: DIRDS not SIRDS

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Berlin writes:
    
>****  The other side of the story is how something as obvious and simple
>as this escapes public notice for so many years due to a closed minded
>dependence on viewing devices. 

Now, just a minute....

Random dot stereograms were documented to be created as far back as 
1909.  As Ron Labbe mentioned, Donald Peck patented the "multiple 
column stereograms" some time before this "simple and obvious" 
idea became popular.

To discover something and to make it commercially popular are two
different things.

You seem to be blaming the "researchers" (scientists?) and the viewing
devices (viewers) for not making SIRDS more popular earlier in the
history of stereo viewing.  But it was a scientist that built the
first stereoscope and without it the world would not have known 
about stereo photography.  It was another scientist who improved the
viewer and made stereo photography more popular.  Convenient and
easy to use viewing devices are advancing the popularity of
stereoscopic imaging.  

Most of the people that I ask, cannot see SIRDS.

>So, take a look around you at your stereo tools and treasures. Hidden in
>plain sight are a number of useful and potentially exciting discoveries
>waiting to be noticed... 

Like what? :-)  It is easy to make general statements like this but
harder to find exactly what is there to be discovered or take something
that has been discovered and make it a commercial success.

-- George Themelis


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