Archive for the ‘Stereo, 3d, depth’ Category

Stereo versus monocular vision through Anthony’s eyes

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

--written by anthony d'agostino for permissions see end of item If people truly had zero depth perception, how could they function? Everything could be like that game you play when you were a kid where you hold the moon in between your two fingers. Or that "Kids in the Hall" skit, ...

Stereoscopes, 3-d stereo binocular vision, and Vision Therapy

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Ever since Charles Wheatstone invented the Stereoscope using mirrors in the 1830's, people have been fascinated with 3-dimentional stereoscopic vision and depth perception. The New Yorker published a very interesting article called Stereo Sue about 10 months ago. You'll want to read the entire abstract (linked above), but here is a ...

Birds have eyes apart

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

(See photo credit at the end of this article.) Birds have eyes apart. Does that mean they have strabismus? I was curious, so I did some research on what birds see. I uncovered some interesting facts. Most articles I found agree that birds have better visual acuity and precision in ...

Did Rembrandt have strabismus?

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

An article entitled Was Rembrandt stereoblind?, outlining research by Professor Margaret Livingstone and colleagues, was published in the September 14, 2004, issue of New England Journal of Medicine. After studying 36 of Rembrandt's self-portraits, and noting that the left eye showed exotropia in all but one of them, researchers ...

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