Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The viewing of objects as three-dimensional.
- noun The technique of making or using stereoscopes and stereoscopic slides.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The use or construction of stereoscopes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or science of using the stereoscope, or of constructing the instrument or the views used with it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
manufacture andviewing ofstereoscopic images ;3D imaging - noun
simultaneous vision using botheyes that produces a visualperception of objects located inspace
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun three-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina
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Examples
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It's more than 170 years since Sir Charles Wheatstone's first experiments in stereoscopy, which is now the most commonly used technique to create 3D images.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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It's more than 170 years since Sir Charles Wheatstone's first experiments in stereoscopy, which is now the most commonly used technique to create 3D images.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The most basic way to do this is stereoscopy, which is essentially showing a slightly different image to each eye, which the brain mashes together into a 3D image.
Gizmodo matt buchanan 2010
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Queen, is releasing a book that contains some of the earliest stereoscopy, which is the original term for 3-D.
Fast Company 2010
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Queen, is releasing a book that contains some of the earliest stereoscopy, which is the original term for 3-D.
Fast Company 2010
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The most basic way to do this is stereoscopy, which is essentially showing a slightly different image to each eye, which the brain mashes together into a 3D image.
Gizmodo matt buchanan 2010
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The most basic way to do this is stereoscopy, which is essentially showing a slightly different image to each eye which the brain mashes together into a 3D image.
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This last area is particularly worrying because in the entire history of 3D cinema (which is almost old as the history of cinema itself) there are only a handful of moments which justify the headache-inducing horrors of "stereoscopy".
Film | guardian.co.uk Mark Kermode 2010
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This last area is particularly worrying because in the entire history of 3D cinema (which is almost old as the history of cinema itself) there are only a handful of moments which justify the headache-inducing horrors of "stereoscopy".
Film | guardian.co.uk Mark Kermode 2010
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Eventually head tracking and multiple position auto-stereoscopy will become the norm, and I would wager that before that happens, 2-D will always be available.
Martin Scorsese Says Even Films Like Precious Should Be in 3D | /Film 2010
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