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stereoscopic vision

n. three-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina [syn: stereoscopy]

Usage examples of "stereoscopic vision".

Yet the infant human can see from birth, rapidly develops stereoscopic vision and the capacity to focus, and soon learns to recognize objects even when they are seen at fluctuating angles and distances and in different forms of illumination.

Without stereoscopic vision, Shasa had difficulty in judging distance, but he had developed the knack of defining relative size and added to this a kind of sixth sense that enabled him to pilot an aircraft, strike a polo ball, or shoot as well as any fully sighted person.

And, finally, one that can be viewed from any angle without distortion, because it does more than give an optical illusion of stereoscopic vision -- it's actually a three-dimensional picture.

All of us primates have sharp stereoscopic vision because arboreal living requires the ability to judge distance accurately, up and down as well as forward and back.

The eyes were dark green and arranged for stereoscopic vision, though much more widely apart than on a man's face.

Yellow plastic lenses protected sophisticated optics capable of full-color and stereoscopic vision.

The eyes, perhaps, had had to open in the same place upon her head, and at the same distance apart, to make easy for her an adjustment to the stereoscopic vision she used to have.

All the sentient peoples have either bipedal or centaurine bodies, hands, stereoscopic vision, and so forth.