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From: Greg Berigan <gberigan@cse.unl.edu>
Subject: [3-D] Tri-Dimensional "Star Trek" Chess Board
Date: 1997/12/18
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In alt.folklore.computers, Kevin@Quitt.net (Kevin D. Quitt) wrote:
>Adam Stouffer <tesla@sgi.net> wrote:

>> How about the chess game that is played on Star Trek?

> It's a fraud.  If you look from on top, it's a standard 8x8 chess set.

While it does have as many squares as an 8x8 chess set and can be made
by cutting up an 8x8 board, from above it does not look the same.  It
looks something like this:

  +-----+       +-----+   | +-----+       +-----+     Andrew Bartmess'
  |  |  |       |  |  |   | |  |  |       |  |  |     <abartmes@infinet.com>
  |--o--|       |--o--|   | |--o--|       |--o--|     Tri-Dimensional Chess
  |  |  |-------|  |  |   | |  |  |-------|  |  |     (aka Star Trek Chess)
  +-----+|  |  |+-----+   | +-----+ |  |  +-----+
      |--+--+--+--|       |      |--+--+--+--|        http://home.interhop.net/
      |  |  |  |  |       |      |  |  |  |  |               ~bag/startrek.htm
      |--+--+--+--|o      |      |--+--+--+--|-o
      |  |  |  |  ||      |      |  |  |  |  | |      3-D Stereogram by
      |--+--+--+--||      |      |--+--+--+--|-|      Greg Berigan
      |  |  |  |  ||      |      |  |  |  |  | |      <gberigan@cse.unl.edu>
      o-----------o|o     |      o-----------o-|-o    December 18, 1997
       |  |  |  |  ||     |        |  |  |  |  | |
       |--+--+--+--||     |        |--+--+--+--|-|    See also the newsgroups:
       |  |  |  |  ||     |        |  |  |  |  | |      rec.games.chess.misc
       o-----------o|     |        o-----------o-|      rec.arts.startrek.misc
        |  |  |  |  |     |          |  |  |  |  |      rec.arts.ascii
        |--+--+--+--|     |          |--+--+--+--|
    +-----+|  |  |+-----+ |     +-----+ |  |  +-----+
    |  |  |+--+--+|  |  | |     |  |  |-+--+--|  |  |
    |--o--|       |--o--| |     |--o--|       |--o--|
    |  |  |       |  |  | |     |  |  |       |  |  |
    +-----+       +-----+ |     +-----+       +-----+

This is a 3-D ASCII stereogram.  Defocus your eyes like when looking at
those Magic Eye 3-D puzzles.  You may have to bring your face very close
to your monitor, possibly reduce your font size to view it properly.
You should see three board setups in this state.  Focus on the middle
and you should see the boards hovering.  Once the images are aligned you
can pull back from the monitor slowly to bring things into better focus.

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