From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Mon Aug 09 1999 - 20:11:16 MDT
mike wrote:
>
> --- Paul Hughes <paul@i2.to> wrote:
>
> > I have about the same
> > success as seeing those damn 3-d images that were so
> > popular a couple of years
> > back. :-)
>
> The first time I saw one of those, it took half an
> hour of (too much!) effort to see it. But my father,
> who is long-sighted, saw his first 3D image within
> seconds of looking at it! (without glasses as I
> recall).
>
> Mike
The real trick to those 3d images is to be a bit walleyed, as I am.
It seems to be a genetic trait- I had surgery to correct it when I
was 13, my son had it at age ten, and in old photographs I can see
that my grandfather and his great-uncle (a particularly successful
mercenary captain by the name of Giuseppe Garibaldi) also had a
"lazy" left eye.
Anyway, I can view old fashioned stereo pairs without a viewer- and
stereo pictures were the first time I *ever* saw in 3d. It was a
stunning experience. After the corrective surgery, I had much
greater appreciation for the female form, too... depth perception is
a wonderful thing.
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