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.

 

 

 

BOAC Cunard VC10

Xograph card

airline issue

 

 

BOAC Cunard VC10

Xograph card

airline issued

 

 

CAAK TU154

airline issued

 

 

 

Canadian Pacific DC8

airline issued

 

 

Concorde

Stereo card

Reel 3-D Entertainment

to be used with 3D-glasses

 

 

Delta DC9

Xograph card

airline issue

 

 

Europe, Fictional airline

Toppan card

 

 

 

Europe, Fictional airline

Toppan card

 

 

 

JAL B727, Tokyo Haneda Airport

Toppan card

Kowa Display Ltd.

 

 

KLM DC8

Xograph card 9.9154

airlines issue

 

 

 

Lufthansa B747

no publisher remarks

 

NASA B747 & Space Shuttle

changing image card

Vari-Vue, Mount Vernon

 

Pan Am B707, Tokyo International Airport

Toppan card

Kowa Display Inc.

 

 

Pan Am B747

Toppan card

airline issue

 

 

private Prop plane over New York

Asahi Trading Co

Printed in Japan

 

 

Spirit of St. Louis

Pilot's International Assoc. 1969

Xograph

 

 

 

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.