October 2, 2009
3D Glasses for 3-Eyed Aliens and Cyclops
My fiancee and I have some quite random conversations. The other night, we walked by an ad for the Toy Story 3D movies, and we started wondering about how the 3-eyed alien's 3D glasses would work if he was real. My brother later joined in on the conversation and he brought up the cyclops-monster Bob from Monsters vs. Aliens. We came up with some ideas, but I wanted to first pose the question to the IM department:
Assuming each creature is in a HUMAN 3D movie theater (i.e. 2 projectors in stereoscopic 3D or red-blue stereo), how do each creature's 3D glasses work? (Or do they work at all?)
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Subjects and task
Two male monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were prepared for neurophysiological experiments as described in detail elsewhere28. Monkeys were head restrained and seated in front of a 60 cm 60 cm tangent screen that subtended roughly 90° 90° of visual angle at the viewing distance of 32 cm. The display screen and stereoscopic projector (Christie Digital Mirage 2000) were mounted on a motion platform with six degrees of freedom (6DOF2000E; MOOG) that allowed us to translate the animal along any direction in the frontoparallel plane (fore–aft movements were not used here).
(excerpt from Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7187/full/nature06814.html)
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at October 2, 2009 8:04 PM
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