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This
exhibit is based on the principle used to make the first
3-D movies. Hanging objects are illuminated by two projectors.
One projector has a red filter, the other has a green
filter. On the screen, each object produces two shadows-one
from each projector. Where an object blocks the red
light, there is a green shadow; where an object blocks
the red light, there is a green shadow. The viewers
contain red and green filters: the left eye looks through
a red filter, the right eye looks through a green filter.
Through the red filter, the red shadow looks dark; through
the green filter, the green shadow looks dark. Each
eye sees a differently placed shadow of an object. The
brain combines these two shadows and sees a single,
fused image in 3-D space. Thus, all the objects between
the projectors and the screen are reproduced as shadows
floating in space between the viewer and the screen.
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