P3D thanks & another question - slides vs. prints

["x.z." <x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to everyone who has written me. I really appreciate that. 

I've got a ton of questions, but will try to hold back a bit with them!

Here's one:

  I've noticed with some print anaglyphs I've seen that the 3-D effect
  is fairly lousy. Objects/people look like cardboard cutouts placed at
  different intervals into a scene. Very unrealistic effect. Do stereo
  prints in general suffer from this defect? 

  Are slides the only medium which give photographs convincing 3-D 
  effects, like with viewmasters? If so, then I'm really not interested
  in prints. I'm really taken with the 3-D effect viewmasters offer;
  example: in a thrift store, I picked up a batman viewmaster with 
  a Batman Returns reel and was blown away by the picture where batman
  is climbing a ladder, and a cone of light is coming out of the wall 
  at you. 

  Speaking of which, if anyone is ever in the Boston area, 
  the MIT Museum in Cambridge, though small, is well worth visiting
  for their holography exhibit. They've got a life-size hologram of
  who I think was an MIT professor - sitting at a desk. While it's a bit
  monochromatic, the realism of it is spooky; the glare off his eyeballs,
  etc. Looks like a frozen human being in a closet. Very impressive.

  They've got some other impressive holograms which you can look in
  and around - one's of a bar room. I think it's the largest hologram
  collection in the U.S.  

  - Xochi


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