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To: ctdonath2

What’s the good reason?


10 posted on 04/01/2010 7:44:40 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

What’s today?

Awright, it’s 11:10pm and my better half is wondering why I’m not in bed, so ...

Google Street View DOES have a red/blue 3D option, starting today. It does actually do something, but has more to do with an easy hack based on knowing what it’s mostly looking at: below the horizon can have a cheap 3D effect added, along with other parts of the picture easy to tweak into looking 3D without knowing anything about the actual image. Ergo, it makes for a nifty April Fool’s joke: gives you a “holy crap they just added 3D!” feeling before realizing it’s a cheap trick they’ll turn off April 2nd.


16 posted on 04/01/2010 8:14:05 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (+)
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