>>3D is a fad that has a 20 or so year cycle to it.  A significant portion
>>of the population (mostly male) can not see it.[*]  Ironically, that is
>>the demographic which they attempt to sell it into.

I know it was probably a slight misstatement, but some minor corrections.

Red Green color blindness affects around 7% of males ³to some extent.²  This
affliction, like hearing loss, isn¹t always total and does not uniformly
eliminate the successful of red/blue lens based 3d processes in film (black
and white based mostly) and magazines. I have a R/GCB friend who can make it
out just fine (he was our accessibility engineer for several years.)  By way
of trivia, a odd recent development/modification of the printing process for
R/B lenses finds it being used in a number of color books as well, most
recently Final Crisis: Superman Beyond (
http://www.swell3d.com/2008/09/new-3d-comic-final-crisis-supe.html) used it.

However, red/green color blindness should not be a factor in the preferable
(IMHO) polarized lens process.

By the way, promotion of this has been pretty good on NBC, I wouldn¹t expect
other channels to promote it.  In fact, hang on to your glasses for Monday¹s
episode of Chuck, which is also broadcast in 3D.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/01/03/3d-glasses-for-super-bowl-and-chuck/101
50

Cheers,
-Ric


From: Julie Porter <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:59:15 -0800
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Basfa] 3d Glasses

I did a search on that term,  I see now, I was wrong.    The reason I posted
was to give a simple way of making Pulfrich glasses by using modified
sunglasses.  This I now learn, will not work with the new patented
(patents==greed) system. It was not speculation.  I have a bunch of 3d
images on my website using the red blue glasses.  Pulfrich has been around
for a long time.  It is not compatible with the theater projection systems.
So when I hear that a non compatible system is being promoted it sets the
alarm bells off.  The number of exiting 3d formats, generates a lot of
confusion. The promotion on this has been rather bad.  Perhaps because I do
not watch TV.    I have not seen this discussed much in any of the
mainstream "news" forums, hearing about this only yesterday.  Perhaps that
is the intent. To wow an ignorant public with more noise. 3D is a fad that
has a 20 or so year cycle to it.  A significant portion of the population
(mostly male) can not see it.[*]  Ironically, that is the demographic which
they attempt to sell it into. -julie [*]  Search for the work on how the
brain sees depth by Bela Julez. Mike wrote: > > Actually, the glasses are
Intel ColorCode 3D, "a new way to view 3D > in the home...a significant
advancement over traditional 3D > technology."  What's with all the
speculation? > > MM > >
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*From:* Julie Porter <[email protected]> > *To:* BASFA <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 31, 2009 10:34:53 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Basfa] 3d
Glasses > > Sounds like they are using Pulfrich 3D effect glasses again.
You can > get the same effect by popping out the glass in one eye of a cheap
> pair of sunglasses.  The system sort of works.  Doctor Who used this > in
the charity short "Dimensions in Time" which aired sometime I think > in the
1980s, the last time this fad happened. > > Anyway a simple search on
Pulfrich shows a number of suppliers of said > glasses.  As to getting them
online before the mess happens  I suspect > it is too late.  I still have a
pair from 20 years ago or so.  They do > make a lot of TV look 3D although
the effect gets tiresome after a > while.  Dilating one eye and not the
other, tends to cause headaches > in most people. > > -julie >
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