stereoscopy

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The third and far more popular method of stereoscopy is in the use of anaglyphic glasses whose lenses are color filters - red and blue, usually.

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  1. noun The viewing of objects as three-dimensional.
  2. noun The technique of making or using stereoscopes and stereoscopic slides.

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  • I downloaded and installed that exe, i'm not sure many people did, and that stereoscopy algo works for every page; i just don't have the glasses to test properly. —  Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
  • Coraline is the first animated stop-motion feature to be filmed entirely in 3D, and successfully uses stereoscopy to create a seemingly more realistic stop-motion animation. —  Frames Per Second Magazine
  • The latest ones are Slashdot discussing stereoscopy on the iPhone: "" Some of the coolest media technologies predate the Web and the PC - in fact, they predate the 20th century. —  Slashgeo
  • Nvidia's stereoscopy only really comes into its own with slow-moving or stationary scenes, such as when you're belly-crawling your way through a jungle swamp in something akin to Call of Duty 5. —  PC Plus
  • I believe 3-D movies will flourish if stereoscopy moves beyond a gimmicky effect and gets used as an integral part of the storytelling toolset, developing its own grammar, and helping tell more compelling stories that could not otherwise be told.
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  1. = French stéréoscopic, from Greek στερεός, solid, + -σκοπία, from σκοπεῖν, view.
 

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/ˈstɛrəəskoʊpi/
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