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The impression of depth
from the stereograms that
appear on this CD-ROM may be
achieved without the aid of a
stereoscope by imagining that
you are looking through the two
pictures, at a point far beyond,
while blocking the view of one
of the two pictures from each
eye. A good way of doing this is
to start with your nose against
the screen and then slowly pull
away. This effect can also be
achieved by using a sheet of
cardboard or paper, held
perpendicular to the screen,
between the pair of images. Or it
can be achieved by fixating an
imaginary point in front of the
two pictures by crossing your
eyes. Still another method is to
view a picture with
superimposed red and green
components through red and
green filters. However the
disparity is achieved, some
people have only a weak
impression of depth from
stereopsis, while a few are
stereo "blind."
A recent discovery makes
dramatically clear just how
powerful a cue retinal disparity
is by itself. In 1960, Bela Julesz
at the Bell Telephone
Laboratories developed two
patterns of random dots that,
when viewed as a stereogram,
will fuse in such a way that a
figure appears to be floating in
the foreground or background.
In the illustration to the left,
for instance, a triangle
appears in front of the
background. Where does the
triangle come from? Directly
from the binocular fusion
going on inside the head.
The effect is an interesting
illustration of psychological
construction, since the
triangle perceived has no
existence either in the two
figures or in their retinal
images.