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From: thant@horus.SGI.COM (Thant Tessman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: 3-D perceptual abilities
Summary: percentage of people stereo works on
Keywords: TV 3-D graphic
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Date: 27 Jan 89 16:51:09 GMT
References: <6382@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
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In article <6382@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, leech@piglet.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) writes:
> 
>     All this discussion about 3D leads me to wonder how widely people
> vary in their ability to perceive different types of 3D.

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> Do many people have
> this type of problem?
> --
>     Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
>     SUSHIDO: the Way of the Tuna

An excelent book on stereo is "Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema" by
Lenny Lipton.  It mentions that stereo viewing devices don't work on about
eight percent of the population.

Thant Tessman
thant@sgi.com