Stereoblindness

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Stereoblindness (also stereo blindness) is the inability to see in 3D using stereo vision, resulting in an inability to perceive stereoscopic depth, by combining and comparing images from the two eyes.

Individuals with only one functioning eye always have this condition; the condition also results when two eyes do not function together properly.

It has been suggested that Dutch Old Master Rembrandt may have been stereoblind, which would have aided him in flattening what he saw for the production of 2D works.[1][2] Scientists have suggested that more artists seem to have stereoblindness when compared with a sample of people with stereo-acuteness (normal stereo vision).[3]

British neurologist Oliver Sacks lost his stereoscopic vision in 2009 due to a malignant tumor in his right eye and now has no remaining vision in that eye.[4] His loss of stereo vision was recounted in his book The Mind's Eye, published in October 2010.[5]

In 2012 one case of stereoblindness was reportedly cured by watching a 3D film.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Marmor M. F., Shaikh S., Livingstone M. S., Conway B. R., Livingstone MS, Conway BR (September 2004). "Was Rembrandt stereoblind?". N. Engl. J. Med. 351 (12): 1264–5. doi:10.1056/NEJM200409163511224. PMC 2634283. PMID 15371590. [Deconstructing the Gaze of Rembrandt Lay summary] – New York Times (September 16, 2004). 
  2. ↑ Rembrandt (van Rijn)
  3. ↑ New York Times: A defect that may lead to a masterpiece (June 13, 2011)
  4. ↑ "The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories", BBC accessed 30 June 2011
  5. ↑ Murphy, John. "Eye to Eye with Dr. Oliver Sacks", Review of Optometry, 9 December 2010
  6. ↑ Peck, Morgen (2012-07-19). "How a movie changed one man’s vision forever". BBC News. Retrieved July 20, 2012. 

Bibliography

  • Susan Barry (2009). Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-00913-1. 

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