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How is it possible for an image projected onto a flat screen to appear three-dimensional? Special glasses use some properties of light to give each eye a separate image, mimicking the way we see three-dimensional objects, while new developments are producing displays that appear 3D without the need for glasses

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The glasses most commonly used to produce 3D vision from a flat image either rely on absorption and transmission of coloured light or exploit the properties of polarised light. New techniques involve parallax and liquid-crystal displays.

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