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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 3d graphics
Message-ID: <5915@well.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 22:08:14 GMT
References: <27719@cca.CCA.COM>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Summary: Here we go again...

In article <27719@cca.CCA.COM> jack@cca.CCA.COM (Jack Orenstein) writes:
>I saw a 3d movie last night, and when I got the red/green glasses, I
>started wondering if the Amiga could be used to produce images for use
>with these glasses.

	Check out 3DStars on Fish Dish #33, which I wrote many moons ago.
Also, there's a 3D Breakout game someone wrote which is also very good.
Both of these use the red/blue glasses trick.

>For example, what is the best way to display the two
>images? Rapidly alternate between them, or use red bits for one image
>and green for the other?
>
	Flickering LCD glasses enable you to see full color 3D, whereas
red/blue 3D tends to give peope headaches.  Mind you, the flickering glasses
can give you headache too, but it's no worse than, say, an interlace
workbench.

	BTW, a curious side effect of MicroWay's flickerFixer is that it
breaks flickering LCD-based 3D, since it eliminates the flicker, resulting
in very weird displays.

>Does anyone have experience with this?
>
	Yup.  I keep promising the Net that we'll release something Real
Soon Now.  I keep telling Gary that the market is ripe and clamoring for
this stuff, and he keeps saying, "Yeah, we'll do it.  You have MY word on
it."  So I have no idea when my stuff will be released.  Wade Bickel will
probably beat us to the shelves (which isn't necessarily a bad thing; I saw
his stuff at DevCon, and it looks real good.  It'd be even better if he
didn't stomp multitasking).  Sigh.

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