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Linvill's "Opticon" (for Optical Tactical Converter) reflects an enlarged image of each letter onto a disk of light-sensitive transistors. The transistors, energized by the image, trigger a corresponding group of pins that vibrate in an outline identical to the printed letter. By lightly fingering the pins, the blind person can "see" the letter...
Three dimensional films are an optical disillusion. In their present form, the Tri-Opticon Pictures premiered in New England last week are more suited to a science classroom that a Boston theatre. Two of the five shorts are cartoons-abstractions of lines and triangles which seem to drift from the screen to an audience squinting through special gray-tinted glasses. The effect is startling and impressive for a few minutes, then with a succession of dull and technically imperfect pictures, the wondering eye becomes increasingly strained. In a film of the Black Swan ballet, where leg movements are only...
...Colby '05, F.R.G.S., and J. T. Coolidge, 3rd, '11 gave an excellent stere-opticon lecture on "Hunting and Photography in East Equatorial Africa" in the Union last evening...
Under the auspices of the Natural History Society, Mr. H. K. Job '88 will deliver a lecture on "Hunting Game Birds with a Camera" in the Fogg Lecture Room on Thursday, April 26. The lecture will be illustrated by serio-opticon views of photographs of wild owl, bay birds, and upland game birds...
...lecture will be illustrated by stere-opticon views. Although the lecture is primarily for members of the Dental School, it will be open to members of the University...