El Reg spends One Night in Hell with Queen's Brian May The sight of rock stars indulging their interests can sometimes leave onlookers feeling a little queasy – remember McCartney's fondness for Rupert Bear? No? Well let's not go there… However, Brian May, yes he of Queen fame, appeared at Dolby’s private Atmos cinema in London yesterday to tell of where one of his abiding passions …
so you view the scenes in much the same was
Should be "so you view the scenes in much the same way"
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Stereo reproduction of the static pictures can be accomplished without the need of optics:
Instead of having the images side by side, with the left image lined up for the left eye on the left, swapping the positions of the images on paper allows for the viewers to simply cross their eyes and focus. True, not everyone can focus with eyes crossed, but those who can do not need the owl or any other special reading device.
Crosseyed viewing works very well and I use it all the time (see sites like phereo.com) but parallel viewing has some advantages. Mainly, it retains the perception of scale (where crosseyed images appear smaller subjectively). But parallel free-viewing is only possible for very small-size pairs - so a viewer like OWL is usually required.
There are more expensive adjustable prismatic or periscopic viewers which allow one to view cross- or parallel-eyed stereopairs of virtually any size, but OWL works just fine with the "standard"-size cards.
rely on you looking past the image, with your eyelines approaching parallel, not cross-eyed.
Not sure what the fuss is about other than Brian May's involvement though, as I've seen Victorian stereogram cards reproduced in several autostereogram collection books (just not the actual 'Magic Eye' ones).
Easiest way with side-by-side images like these is to shrink the images somewhat (ctrl-scroll) and let your eyes *un*cross. You're looking to see three images; the middle one overlays the left and right and pops up in stereo.
Once you get the hang, you can increase the scale up to about 62mm wide for each picture (the average eye separation). Some people can manage even wider, but I find it difficult.
... how can he claim a patent on a technique that is very old. It's a simple optical viewer and is obvious to anyone who knows a little about it. I made one myself, many years ago, for viewing stereoscopic 35mm slides, copying something that a work colleague had done.
Remember View-Master http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master ? You can still buy them. Not sure where mine went, probably in the attic at my Mum's house. We had Grimm's fairy tales reels, Rumpelstiltskin was a particularly evil little bugger in 3D, as I recall.
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