Students make 3-D glasses in honor of African American inventor
By Angel Sabater |
Students celebrated Black History Month in the library by making their very own 3-D glasses.
Kenneth J. Dunkley, the famous 3-DVG (3-Dimensional Visual Glasses) inventor, discovered that blocking two points in a person’s peripheral vision (Peripheral Vision is a part of vision that occurs outside the very center of gaze) will make ordinary vision appear three dimensional.
C Lunch students making their 3D glasses.
To honor this contribution of this African American inventor, students were able to make their very own 3-D glasses with a red sharpie marker and a blue sharpie marker. There they used one to color in one side of the glasses red and the other blue.
“It was something that one of the previous librarians had already done and so I did this event again,” Librarian Rae Downen said. “But I changed up the people. I thought it was important for people to know that there was just more than Booker T. Washington or Dr. Martin Luther King out there.”
Kenneth J. Dunkley is currently the president of the Holospace Laboratories Inc.; and because of his invention of 3-DVG, many movies today are made 3-D using 3-D glasses. For instance, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl made $69.4 million and the film uses the same anaglyph 3-D technology as used in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.
“I came with my friend, because we heard about the 3-D glasses and we wanted to see what that was about,” Nathan Stidhem said. “I like that I get to hang out with my friend and make 3-D glasses and watch 3-D videos.”
Kenneth J. Dunkley also receives attention for his efforts as a visual pioneer. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at the Museum Of Scientific Discovery, he has conducted visual effects workshops for four year, and is also a leader in the field of Holography.