Renee M. is a member of VSP's Corporate Marketing & Brand Management team.

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Renee Mc. is a member of VSP's Corporate Marketing & Brand Management team.

This past Tuesday, my daughter and I celebrated our birthdays (yes, they are on the same day but that’s a whole different blog post altogether). She turned 15, and I turned…well, let’s just say mid-30-something.

In our usual fashion, she and I stuffed ourselves with sushi then rolled over to Blockbuster Video for some post-dinner entertainment. While perusing the new release aisle, we saw that July 21^st also marked the DVD release of “Coraline,” the story of an adventurous girl who discovers a secret portal into a world which turns out to be an idealized (but ultimately sinister) version of her own annoying home life. Sound familiar?

At the check out, we learned the DVD came in both 2-D and 3-D. So we opted for 3-D (because really who can turn down those cool glasses?) And, being the science lovers that we are, she and I decided to do an experiment to see if we could see a huge difference in the 2-D and 3-D versions.

Photo courtesty: howstuffworks.comAfter watching both, we agreed that although 3-D “Coraline” offered a deeper, more visually rich view of the animated world, I was disappointed that nothing really “jumped out” visually.

“It’s no Captain EO,” I muttered.

“Captain what?” she replied skeptically. (Did I mention she’s only 15?)

Anyway, as we got ready for bed, my daughter asked me how 3-D worked. And while I sputtered on about how, back in the day, it was done using red/green or red/blue images that the special glasses would filter allowing only one image to be seen by either eye, I really wasn’t sure how they were doing it for modern, full-color films.

Satisfied (for now) with my answer, my kid went to bed. I, on the other hand, wasn’t. So fired up the laptop and looked it up on the Internet. Howstuffworks.com seemed to have the most easily digestible explanation plus cool illustrations to boot!

Check it out so now you too can impress your kid with borrowed trivia!

Renee is a member of VSP's Corporate Marketing and Brand Management team.

They call me McCandless. My mission: to ambush employees with random questions before they get their morning fix of caffiene. My weapon of choice: the camcorder. My motto: Press “record” and see what happens.