stereoscopy

Also known as stereoscopics, 3D imaging

thumb|Stereoscopy with a classic stereoscope, showing the two lenses a person looks through to see a 3D image formed behind them thumb|Pocket stereoscope with original test image. Used by military to examine stereoscopic pairs of Aerial photography|aerial photographs. thumb|View of Boston, ; an early stereoscopic card for viewing a scene from nature thumb|Kaiserpanorama consists of a multi-station viewing apparatus and sets of stereo slides. Patented by A. Fuhrmann around 1890.

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Background
Visual requirements
Side-by-side
Freeviewing
Autostereogram
Stereoscope and stereographic cards
Transparency viewers
Head-mounted displays
3D viewers
Active
Shutter systems
Passive
Polarization systems
Interference filter systems
Color anaglyph systems
ChromaDepth system
Pulfrich method
Over/under format
Other display methods without viewers
Autostereoscopy
Holography
Volumetric displays
Integral imaging
Wiggle stereoscopy
Stereo photography techniques
Stereo window
Uses
Art
Education
Space exploration
Clinical uses
Mathematical, scientific and engineering uses
Video games
See also
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links
Archival collections
Other

Stereoscopy, also called stereoscopics or stereo imaging, refers to making images appear 3D. The most popular kind of stereoscopy is two-view stereoscopy, which creates partial depth perception in an image from a set of two two-dimensional images by using binocular disparity. The word stereoscopy derives . Any stereoscopic image is called a stereogram. Originally, stereogram referred to a pair of two-dimensional images that could be viewed using a stereoscope.