P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 3181 Stereochemistry

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>>Robert R commented on stereochemistry.

My reply:
A professor at Cal Tech gave a lecture a few years ago in which he tried to depict some "stereo" images 
illustrating the stereospecificity of various chemical reactions. The poor guy had a right and left 
superimposed on a screen using a single lens projector. It was such a mess that one was unable to
 decipher anything. I approached him and offered to instruct him on the art of true stereo projection and 
 give him some of my mounts for free. His reply was that he did not have time for such activities. 
 He referred me to his "girl" whom I never was able to contact. How could poor little me teach an 
 eminent professor anything about stereo? He did invite me into his lab where he had state of the 
 art computing equipment including Kerr shuttered glasses. The images on this screen were startling.
George Skelly


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