ECKSTROM@KL.SRI.COM (D.J. Eckstrom) (03/06/89)
Please excuse any typing errors - I'm on a system I am not used to using.
Several months ago, an engineering friend of mine related to me something he
had seen on a tv program sometime last year. It was a short demonstration
(probably less than a minute in length) using a method that allows one to view
3D (or very close to real 3D) images on a standard tv set - or for that matter
on an amiga screen. He said tjat the effect was real and unmistakable. After
a little research I found out what it was and came up with patent #4,429,328.
Oh, I forgot to mention that no special goggles are required to view the
effects.
Let me quote the abstract of the patent:
Development of a three-dimensional illusion through
sequential displaying on a viewing surface of images of one subject as viewed
alternatively first from one point of origin and then, time displaced, from
another point of origin at a rate within a range of 4 to 30 changes between the
points of origin per second. The effect of the illusion is maximized by having the points of origin vertically aligned with respect to one another and
having the points of origin displaced from one another a distance less than
normal interoccular distance.
patent #4,429,328
class 358
jan 31, 1984
jones jr., et al.
If this really works, please will some commercial software developer(s?)
check it out, contact the patent assignee, and incorporate this technique
into their 3d modeling programs. The amiga is probably the only low end
graphics machine thaT can do it , and it will knock the socks off everyone else.
One more thing. The patent assignee is CJM Associates, Chapin, SC.
Mark Williams
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