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[photo-3d] Chromatic aberration / chromostereopsis


  • From: boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Subject: [photo-3d] Chromatic aberration / chromostereopsis
  • Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:49:48 -0500

In a holmes viewer, because of the _prismatic_ element in the optics,
chromatic aberration is in opposite directions for the left and right
views.

So the left eye sees blue shifted to the right, and vice versa.

A large magnifier will do the same to a flat color picture, resulting in a
form of stereo that shifts colors to different planes.  That's because
light rays going to one eye will travel through a different part of the
lens (near the edge, where it works much like a prism) than the rays going
to the other eye.  (But for the large magnifier, red appears shifted up,
blue depressed).

Boris