[photo-3d] Re:3D and stereo vocabulary

[Michael Hodsdon <mike3d@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Deering wrote:
>I work with a couple 3D modeling 
>software companies, and often talk with those people about using 3D 
>(their meaning) software to generate 3D (my meaning) pictures, the 
>confusion is constant.

I found this quote the other day and thought of this thread.
 Apparently someone did a study where they modeled several
people's bodies in 3D.
When asked to choose their own body, almost everyone chose a
thinner
model. 
Professor Stephen Gray at Nottingham-Trent University said,
"There is a colossal difference in a body viewed on a
  highly accurate, rotatable three-dimensional scan
  compared to the two-dimensional image people are used
  to seeing in their mirrors. It was an enlightening,
perhaps
  even humbling, experience." 
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/06/15/timnwsnws02016.html

A doubly good example of the confusion mentioned.
 The professor was talking about a 2D image
on a computer monitor, and the image in a mirror is stereo!
=)
Mike Hodsdon

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