Carol Fahmy (fahmy@email.unc.edu) 

Emily White (emwhite@email.unc.edu)

Physics 25 

Dr. Duane Deardorff

    In our interest in how the human eye works (Carol hopes to study optometry) we decided to research the ins and outs of the mysterious 3-D movie.  As children, when we were first introduced to 3-D movies, the magic of figures on the screen popping out at you was exciting and even scary.  As adults we often pass it off as a children's gimmick, but the technology behind 3-D movies is actually quite fascinating.  By manipulating what images are seen by each eye, a scene from two slightly different perspectives can be melded together in your brain to produce what appears to be a 3-D image on a flat screen.  Over the years, new and more high tech ways of producing this 3-D image have been developed, which we will talk about in the sections 3-D Movies and 3-D Glasses.  Before you start be sure to get some background on how and when 3-D Movies began to be produced and why it is possible for our eyes to see 3-D images in stereovision.  Have fun!

 

 

 

Last updated April 29, 2005