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From: magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Message-ID: <7267@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 24 Dec 88 11:47:08 GMT
References: <4362@pitt.UUCP> <257@gloom.UUCP> <5486@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1116@netxcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman)
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In article <1116@netxcom.UUCP> ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes:
>In article <5486@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hassell@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Christopher Hassell) writes:
>>In article <257@gloom.UUCP> cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf) writes:
>>#What I would like to see is the desktop metaphor extended into 3D, say
>>#	"...it's a mistake in the making."	-KT

>>Any other Cheap <read Practical> ideas [Until Holograms can be dynamically 
>>   projected]?

>Yes.  Design your graphical interface to alternate rapidly between two
>perspective images of the same object.  Interface that with a special pair
>of glasses whos lenses are made of a rapid acting LCD material.  

A simpler solution might be to start with cheap polarized lenses 90 deg. out
of phase (movie 3-D glasses), and a very short persistance phospher on your
screen, and rotate a polarized filter, at 15 r.p.m. in front of the screen.



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