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Abstract

Paired eyes give an immediate perception of depth in surrounding space, with great acuity. Viewing a stereo-pair of images gives a similar perception. Seven modes of viewing a stereo-pair, with or without special devices, are described.

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Notes

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    Proposed by Franciscus Aguilonius in 1613, now named for G.U.A. Vieth (1818) and J.P. Muller (1840).

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    From \(o\rho \iota o\) boundary or limit, and \(o\pi \tau \eta \rho \) one who looks.

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    Peter Ludvig Panum (1820–1885), Professor of Physiology at Kiel, then at Copenhagen, University.

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    James Elliot was an Edinburgh mathematics teacher who showed his stereoscope in 1839, with drawn pictures, and described it in a letter to the Philosophical Magazine in 1852. Brewster (1856) claimed that Elliot’s invention dated from 1834 and had priority over Wheatstone’s, but Elliot himself made no such claim.

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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, American physician and writer.

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Parkin, A. (2016). Stereo Viewing. In: Digital Imaging Primer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85619-1_12

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