Re: [photo-3d] RE: Chromatic aberration

[Ron Beck <rbeck@xxxxxxxx>]

I would think that this would be caused by something within the lenses. 
It sounds like the "Chromadepth" glasses.  Could the non-achromatic
lenses be causing some sort of refraction which is picked up as depth?

"Dr. George A. Themelis" wrote:
> 
> >Years ago I noticed in non achromatic flattie slide viewers that
> >red objects appeared radically displaced from the rest of the
> >image plane. So the problem doesn't lie in the difference
> >between the L & R images, but that different colors appear in
> >different planes due to optical effects (defects).
> 
> Why do different colors appear in different
> planes?  This really translates to saying that they
> appear displaced as seen by the right and left eye.
> 
> The flattie viewer you used had a large lens and you
> used both eyes to look through this lens, right?  If
> you close one eye, the depth would disappear.
> 
> This is not the same situation as using each eye through
> a different lens in a 3d viewer.
> 
> George