The history of cinema can teach us a lot. It is a long journey of continuing research for technological improvements and explorations of this relatively new language and art. Stereoscopy has its own history, complex and eventful; full of examples to follow and mistakes to avoid. As surprising as it sounds, 3D was invented long before cinema itself. The origins of 3D can be traced back to Euclid, who declared in the 3rd century bc: “To see in 3D is to receive by each eye two dissimilar images of the same object.”
Inventors and mathematicians have subsequently clarified this concept, including Ibn Al-Haytham (known as Alhazen), an Arab mathematician and philosopher from the 11th century. Alhazen explored in his ...