P3D Re: 2x2x2 stereo format?

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:45 AM 3/23/99 , Dr. T. wrote:
>>From: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx (Larry Berlin)
>>Has there been any experimentation with a means to join a pair of 2x2s? If
>>the chips were precision aligned in their mounts, a means to join two
>>standard slides permanently/semi... for storage and hassle free projection
>>might be a versatile solution for the future? I suppose a different
>>projector/slide carriage is about all that's needed? Does it exist?
>
>If you join two 2x2 inch slides together with a 1 1/2 inch "spacer", you 
>will end up with a very convenient "stereo mount" that is 3 1/2 inches 
>wide and 1 inch tall (for metrics: 50 x 90 mm).

Either I'm missing something, or your PhD in physics has gotten you into
some weird math that I don't understand.  If you put two 2x2 mounted slides
side by side, the width is 4 inches.  If you include a 1 1/2 inch "spacer,"
the width will be 5 1/2 inches.  Also, the height will remain 2 inches.  Or
have I not understood something?

The 101mm of a Realist slide is about 3.97... inches, so having the two 2x2
slides abutting each other might just fit in a standard viewer, or perhaps
require shaving the sides a bit.

-pd


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