P3D Exhibits

["Tim Stabler" <tstabler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just returned from a field trip with high school students to the 
Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.  While there, I went into 
the museum store and found a book on rocks & minerals and a book on 
the human body that were done with 3-D pictures.  What they do is 
have a pair of pictures and then you use some kind of mirror in 
between the two so you look at them and see the imagers in 3D.  There 
are also books available on insects, microlife, plants and reptiles.  
Those I did not see.  And, since everything was plastic-wrapped, I 
could not even look at the pictures in the book to see if they were 
worth the $16.95 per book.

The museum also has a display on images and a display onUniversal 
Studios.  In the latter, they have a screen running about Spider Man 
but it looks funny until you view it through the lens pair that sits 
there and then you see the whole thing in 3D.  There are also some 
older pairs of pictures that you use the old fashioned viewer to look 
at on see the images in 3D.  I thought it kind of interesting to see 
all this stuff in 3D!!

They also have a virtual reality roller-coaster ride where I found 
the image too small to really get into the ride although the seat was 
shaking.  I told the girl they should have done that in 3D also and 
really had a ride then.

Tim


Timothy A. Stabler, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Indiana University Northwest
Gary, IN 46408

(219)980-6718
FAX: (219)980-7125


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