The Third Dimension
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On this site you can check out all 3D airline cards I have in my collection so far. Due to the uppermost transparent layer, which is responsible for the 3D illusion, the pictures appear unsharp. I wish I could show you the three dimensional effect properly.
Please check also my online swap list of airline issued postcards by clicking one of the cells at the navigation bar.
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BOAC Cunard VC10 Xograph card airline issue |
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BOAC Cunard VC10 Xograph card airline issued |
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CAAK TU154 airline issued |
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Canadian Pacific DC8 airline issued |
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Concorde Stereo card Reel 3-D Entertainment to be used with 3D-glasses |
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Delta DC9 Xograph card airline issue |
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Europe, Fictional airline Toppan card |
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Europe, Fictional airline Toppan card |
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JAL B727, Tokyo Haneda Airport Toppan card Kowa Display Ltd. |
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KLM DC8 Xograph card 9.9154 airlines issue |
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Lufthansa B747 no publisher remarks |
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NASA B747 & Space Shuttle changing image card Vari-Vue, Mount Vernon |
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Pan Am B707, Tokyo International Airport Toppan card Kowa Display Inc. |
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Pan Am B747 Toppan card airline issue |
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private Prop plane over New York Asahi Trading Co Printed in Japan |
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Spirit of St. Louis Pilot's International Assoc. 1969 Xograph |
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Swissair B747 Toppan card PK-297 |
The principle behind these cards, called lenticular photography,
is essentially an illustration bearing two superimposed views of the same image taken from slightly different angles, on a transparent mount striped with a multitude of imperceptible parallel strips (Xograph process). On account of these strips, each eye, looking at the print from a different angle, sees only one image. Thee three-dimensional illusion is produced when this binocular vision is interpreted by the brain. 3D airplane postcards has been printed under the brand of XOGRAPH, as far as I know held by Eastman Kodak, and TOPPAN a japanese Company. What killed these style of airline postcards was the enormeous price of production, so unfortunately 3D airline postcards has never been succeeded. A more recent attempt to bring an three dimentional impression to the viewer is to use 3D-glasses instead of the costly transparent XOGRAPH-stripe. The disadvantage of this technique is that the phtographs does not show a real color picture, because a two coloured, mostly green-red picture is needed to bring out the three dimensional effect by using the 3D glasses.