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P3D Re: My first roll of 3D film!


  • From: "Whiz" <whisnant@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Re: My first roll of 3D film!
  • Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 11:09:17 CST


>I just mounted my first roll of slide film shot with my newly acquired
>Stereo Realist. Awesome! Amazing! Hey - it's 3D silly!

Cool!

> [snip]

>Finally. I mounted one pair the wrong way round. It looked 'wrong' - duh! I
>figured that if I just flipped the slide round it should look correct, but
>it didn't. So I remounted it and it looked fine. I don't understand how
>this can be. Surely if you just turned the slide round you are looking at
>the right through the right eye, except the subject is back to front? Am I
>missing something here?

A quick explanation: if you think about it, the 3D effect comes from the
relative separation of different objects in the two images, and just
turning it around doesn't change the separations.

Kerry, Ames IA

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Kerry Whisnant                  High Energy Physics Group
whisnant@xxxxxxxxxxx            Department of Physics and Astronomy
(515)294-3735                   Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011


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