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- From: gold@imp.sim.es.com (Bruce Gold)
- Subject: It's just an illusion
- Message-ID: <By73Ex.2Ez@javelin.sim.es.com>
- Sender: gold@imp (Bruce Gold)
- Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
- References: <1992Nov12.024056.27379@coe.montana.edu> <faith.0g5y@amiganet.chi.il.us> <28437@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:44:56 GMT
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- salm@festival.ed.ac.uk (Jonathan C Salmon) writes:
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- |> The apparent 3D effect is purely an illusion...
- |>
- |> Once this is appreciated, the game turns...extremely mediocre...
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- Yah, I heartily agree. When I discovered that my retinas were mere 2D sensors
- and that the stereoscopic 3D effect is just based on learned assumptions and
- parsing rules in my visual cortex, I decided it wasn't worth it. So now I only
- look with one eye at a time, saving the other for my old age.
- --
- Bruce Gold
- Utah
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