New Euro Coin Released With MultiView Effect

Posted by timothy on Monday February 23, 2004 @12:22PM from the newton-would-be-proud dept.

Jacco de Leeuw writes "Remember those postcards that showed different pictures depending on the angle you looked at them? Royal Dutch Mint has placed a new 10 Euro coin into circulation today that exhibits a similar effect. They invented a new minting technique called MultiView Minting. One side of the coin shows photos of the Dutch heir to the throne, his wife and their newborn daughter Amalia. The three pictures were lasered onto 46 ribs, which is the number of chromosomes in a human cell. This clip shows the effect."

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Re:That's kind of cool... by bartjan · 2004-02-23 12:43 · Score: 4, Informative

This is a collectors' coin, not intended for circulation (although it's legal cash).
It's called "Lenticular" not "MultiView Effect" by DrSkwid · 2004-02-23 23:15 · Score: 4, Informative

As these websites will testify

http://www.depthography.com/

http://www.world3d.com/

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