Re: Do you see what i see?

Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> Kip Williams <kiptw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Some day I need to do what I thought about years ago, finding a
>> video with the proper sort of horizontal pan down an appropriately
>> deep vista, then taking left and right pictures of it on a TV screen
>> -- so that the TV is 3D, and the image on the TV is also 3D.
> 
> Some time in I think the 1970s I read about a hack to make regular
> movies 3D, by running the same film through two projectors, one after
> the other, with differently polarized filters.  Of course the apparent
> depth would vary with the speed at which the camera was moving.

Isn't that about like what they did with some gimmicky halftime show a 
few years back? The special gl***** were just a little darker on one 
side, and the show was structured so that the camera was continually 
moving in one particular direction. You can get the same effect in a 
regular movie by putting one lens of a pair of sungl***** over one of 
your eyes. It's the same classic optical illusion as I've seen in books 
where you have someone swing a watch, and with the dark lens over one 
eye, it seems to be swinging in a circle. (I've also seen it used in a 
cheesy video game.)

Kip W