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A plane image or pair of 2-D images which, when appropriately viewed using both eyes, produces an image which appears to be three-dimensional. By taking a pair of photographs from slightly different angles and then allowing one eye to view each image, a stereogram is not difficult to produce.
Amazingly, it turns out that the 3-D effect can be produced by both eyes looking at a single image by defocusing the eyes at a certain distance. Such stereograms are called ``random-dot stereograms.''
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Terrell, M. S. and Terrell, R. E. ``Behind the Scenes of a Random Dot Stereogram.'' Amer. Math. Monthly 101, 715-724, 1994.
Tyler, C. ``Sensory Processing of Binocular Disparity.'' In Vergence Eye Movements: Basic and Clinical Aspects.
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