The stereoscope was the first device to show photographs with the illusion of three dimensions. Ordinarily, a camera only shows images in two dimensions, but two different cameras used simultaneously can simulate two eyes, if the lenses of the cameras...

Stereoscopy—creating three-dimensional visual experiences from two-dimensional materials—informed most every visual medium of the Modern age: art, photography, cinema, television, and newspapers. In the nineteenth century the marriage of...

Stereoscopy, stereoscopic imaging or 3-D (three-dimensional) imaging is any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image. The illusion of depth in a photograph, movie, or other...