Abstract
WITH reference to a letter of mine in NATURE of December 10, 1938, Father William O'Leary, of Riverview College Observatory, Riverview, N.S.W., wrote to me shortly before his death, and, after mentioning that he also for many years past had been able to view stereoscopic pictures without a stereoscope, says: “The stereoscopic effect is also quite easily obtained by reversing the position of the pictures, putting the right to left and the left to right. If now, instead of focusing the eyes for parallel distant vision, we cross the eyes, the left eye then sees the right-hand picture and the right the left-hand picture. For some people this is rather painful, but I find no difficulty. The effect is a combination image, seemingly just half-way distant between the eyes and the two pictures, in fact, a miniature picture, but beautifully sharp in detail.”
Similar content being viewed by others
Article PDF
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
PATTERSON, T. Binocular Stereoscopic Vision. Nature 143, 1026 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1431026a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1431026a0
This article is cited by
-
Binocular Stereoscopic Vision
Nature (1939)
-
Binocular Stereoscopic Vision
Nature (1939)
Comments
By submitting a comment you agree to abide by our Terms and Community Guidelines. If you find something abusive or that does not comply with our terms or guidelines please flag it as inappropriate.