P3D Denny's 3D Pix, Kinda

[Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For those not accustomed to haute cuisine, I should point out that Denny's
restaurants are currently handing out little booklets to the kids with a
few pictures of the PBS canine star Wishbone. The booklets come complete
with 3D (anaglyph) glasses. At first glance, I could find no use for the 3D
glasses other than one of those games where clues are printed in cyan and
hidden behind magenta crosshatching. But then I examined a few pages in
which pictures had a little "Use Your 3D Specs" logo and I detected a
slight color fringing on certain objects. Sure enough, with the glasses you
can see a flat image of Wishbone with one or two areas that float a minute
fraction of an inch in the background. It takes a fair amount of wishing
thinking to see the depth, but it's there. I wondered why they even
bothered using the 3D gimmick. But I think I know. I can almost hear some
corporate suit looking at a REAL anaglyph image and complaining that you
HAD to have glasses to see it; he wanted images that would look normal when
viewed without the glasses. I'd almost be willing to bet that's why there
is such a minimal amount of depth in these pictures, and why the separation
is almost nonexistent. It's all the gimmick value of 3D without any of that
annoying 3D imagery!


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