Stereoscopic Vision: Stereoscopic
images are image pairs, which are directed
to separate eyes by using special viewing techniques or equipment. The result is an illusion of a single actually three-dimensional image. The phenomena is based on the fact, that we see the world always from two slightly different angles simultaneously.
This is process of mapping an image into
corresponding position upon the two retains
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