P3D Re: Bowl and stereo lies

[erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Erker)]

[resent, since it didn't appear to make it.]

>Here is the interesting part for me. I sometimes hand the viewer
>to friends with the flat dinosaur slide, and say "Wow, look at
>this 3-D slide!" So far not a single person has objected and said
>that it is NOT 3-D. When I tell them it is flat they just seem
>dumbfounded. Ok, I know it isn't nice to deceive people, but I was
>trained as a social psychologist and old habits are hard to break.
>The response of my "subjects" causes me to wonder whether people
>are sincere when they praise the depth of stereo slides.
>As a caveat I must admit that the flat dino photo has a lot of
>non-stereoscopic depth cues, and to the uninitiated it may well
>appear to have true stereo depth.

  If the dino is mounted behind the window that
may be enough clues for some to think that the
image itself is 3d (thanks to the other clues).

Just a thought - Greg



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