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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 16:06:40 EST
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Joshua Lederberg <jsl@ROCKVAX.ROCKEFELLER.EDU>
Subject: Re: CM: earliest 3D display?
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At 11:37 AM 3/7/97 -0500, Ben Tanen wrote:
>Hi folks. I am interested in the earliest mention anyone can find of a three-dimensional display: anything involving an image-producing device for each eye with some way of making them combine using parallax, polarized light, etc. would do.
See Enc. Brit. and OED for reference to first stereoscope Wheatstone 1832. I have a little trouble reconciling this with the dates for origins of photography, but I guess there were heliographs as early as 1826.
The EB comments that stereoscopy had to wait on photography, as no artist could contrive the parallactic views. Are there any exceptions?
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Prof. Joshua Lederberg
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Scholar Suite 400 (Founders Hall)
The Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021-6399
212: 327-7809 fax -8651
j `[8-)#
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Joshua Lederberg <jsl@ROCKVAX.ROCKEFELLER.EDU>
Subject: Re: CM: earliest 3D display?
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
At 11:37 AM 3/7/97 -0500, Ben Tanen wrote:
>Hi folks. I am interested in the earliest mention anyone can find of a three-dimensional display: anything involving an image-producing device for each eye with some way of making them combine using parallax, polarized light, etc. would do.
See Enc. Brit. and OED for reference to first stereoscope Wheatstone 1832. I have a little trouble reconciling this with the dates for origins of photography, but I guess there were heliographs as early as 1826.
The EB comments that stereoscopy had to wait on photography, as no artist could contrive the parallactic views. Are there any exceptions?
Reply-to: (J. Lederberg)lederberg@rockvax.rockefeller.edu --------
Prof. Joshua Lederberg
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Scholar Suite 400 (Founders Hall)
The Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021-6399
212: 327-7809 fax -8651
j `[8-)#
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