Definitions
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- adjective Using three points of vision, such as a microscope with two standard eyepieces and one camera eyepiece, or a camera rig with three cameras
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each eye in effect has trinocular vision and depth perception.
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Each eye possesses trinocular vision and can see into the ultraviolet spectrum.
nessus Diary Entry nessus 2008
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Shots were taken at 300dpi resolution through some sort of Nikon trinocular microscope.
Historiffic Sarah Werning 2007
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Each mantis shrimp eye has trinocular vision allowing them to operate independently.
ACLU wins in Dover 2005
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Shots were taken at 300dpi resolution through some sort of Nikon trinocular microscope.
Archive 2007-06-01 Sarah Werning 2007
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Much more on mantis shrimps at The Lurker's Guide to Stomatopods, which describes its other special features such as rolling like a wheel and having sophisticated trinocular vision with 10 types of receptor for detecting colour and polarisation.
Smashing shrimps Ray Girvan 2004
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Much more on mantis shrimps at The Lurker's Guide to Stomatopods, which describes its other special features such as rolling like a wheel and having sophisticated trinocular vision with 10 types of receptor for detecting colour and polarisation.
Archive 2004-04-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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Monocular, dual-head, binocular, and trinocular head styles (images courtesy National Optical & Scientific Instruments, Inc.)
MAKE Magazine 2009
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A trinocular head provides two eyepieces for binocular viewing and a separate single eyepiece for viewing by a second person or for mounting a camera.
MAKE Magazine 2009
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Each eye can move independently and can focus on object with three different areas, giving the mantis shrimp "trinocular vision".
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