I have a 3D Viewmaster projector somewhere.I stuck it back in storage somewhere.I put it back in storage,after having no luck dumping it on eBay. Roger Rollin' Recording <[log in to unmask]> wrote: There was a "Viewmaster" 3-D projector. My Dad still has the camera, film cutter and some empty View Master Reels. But he never sprung for the 3-D projector either. So... vacations in the Smokies with dramatic depth...when viewed through the viewer...2-D when projected on the screen! Lou Houck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven C. Barr(x)" To: Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Slides and inconvenient media (was spin it again) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Breneman" >> --- "Steven C. Barr(x)" wrote: >> >> > As I recall, the make was >> > Stereo Realist...and the format simply paired two standard 35mm >> > slide images using a "dual slide" mount. >> >> But the Realist format is five perforations per frame, not >> the eight of standard 35mm photography. This frame size >> yields 28 stereo pairs on a 36 exposure roll of film. >> > Well, I never knew the details...all this went on when I was yet > to become a teenager! No idea if any of the slides survived, or > who has them if they did... > >> > They could be projected, but NOT in >> > 3-D...and NOT by standard slide projectors. >> >> No, but a stereo projector, with opposing Polaroid >> filters projecting on a silvered lenticular screen >> produces a striking effect viewed with the kind of >> Polaroid glasses used for 3D movies. My projector >> is made by the long-defunct TDC company. >> > This is one of those things which, to me, sounds like > "It should work, in theory..." but, IIRC, my dad never > sprung for the 3D projector. Was there ever a ViewMaster > equivalent made? >> > We're still waiting for an image/viewer format that will allow the >> > display of true 3D images on existing computer monitors...! >> >> Not on standard monitors, but there are monitors with >> a lenticular screen as used on 3D postcards and "tilt >> to see moving image" postcards (one vertical, the other >> horizontal that can display stereo images without >> glasses. There are also other technologies, such as >> spinning LED displays, that can dispay what appear to >> be solid images in three dimensions. >> > Every time I've seen "3D" used in reference to computer images, > it has referred to "video games"...and then to more-detailed > images which could provide "fake 3D" through the use of more > accurate shadow images. These images, of course, require larger > files, as well as more effort on the part of the creators... > > So, what we need is something which can tell our left eye, > "Okeh, this is what YOU see"...and the same for our right eye. > > Next step will be a way to code "touch" data and feed it into > our brains...of course, right after that there will appear a way > to digitize real objects by providing all the data on the type > and exact locations of the atoms involved (as large as it may be, > that is still a finite number...) > > Steven C. Barr > --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos.