Stereoscopy

Stereoscopy, also called stereoscopics or stereo imaging, refers to making images appear three-dimensional. The most popular kind of stereoscopy is two-view stereoscopy, which creates partial depth perception in an image from a set of two two-dimensional images by using binocular disparity. The word stereoscopy derives from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós) 'firm, solid' and σκοπέω (skopéō) 'to look, to see'.

Any stereoscopic image is called a stereogram.
Originally, stereogram referred to a pair of two-dimensional images that could be viewed using a stereoscope.

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