stereoscope
An optical instrument that simulates binocular
vision by presenting slightly different pictures to the two eyes
so that an apparent three-dimensional image is produced. The simplest stereoscope,
invented in the 1930s, used a system of mirrors
and prisms (later, converging lenses) to view
the pictures. In the color separation method the left image is printed or
projected in red and seen through a red filter, and likewise for the right
image in blue. A similar method uses images projected by polarized
light and viewed through polarizing filters, the polarization axes being
at right angles. The pictures are produced by a stereoscopic camera with
two lenses a small distance apart. The stereoscope is useful in making relief
maps by aerial photographic survey.
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