Except that instead of taking two-dimensional pictures, it worked in three dimensions.
You can get a two-dimensional picture of your doorknob or latch within a day and a wax model a day later.
Creating the illusion of a three-dimensional world from two-dimensional pictures is an idea with timeless appeal.
Artists often use perspective to give an illusion of three-dimensional depth to two-dimensional pictures.
When people looked at these flat, two-dimensional pictures, they experienced the illusion of three-dimensional depth.
It is, however, possible to give an otherwise two-dimensional picture the appearance of depth with a much more simple approach.
The illusion plays on the human eye's interpretation of two-dimensional pictures as three-dimensional objects.
Not the man necessarily, but a two-dimensional picture of him.
This spatial information allows two-dimensional pictures to be produced.
These essentially two-dimensional pictures show us photography at its most abstract and otherworldly.