Searching for a Classic Physics Textbook with Autostereograms

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Perhaps this is a fever dream, but I seem to recall a classic Physics textbook that had illustrations of 3D vectors using autostereograms. However, I can't remember which one (or find any evidence that I'm not making this up). I also have the notion that this was very early, well before the magic eye craze of the early nineties. Can anyone confirm or deny?
 
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Cutter Ketch said:
Perhaps this is a fever dream, but I seem to recall a classic Physics textbook that had illustrations of 3D vectors using autostereograms. However, I can't remember which one (or find any evidence that I'm not making this up). I also have the notion that this was very early, well before the magic eye craze of the early nineties. Can anyone confirm or deny?

It was definitely not a dream (or we shared it). I think it was Morse and Feschbach. But these were real stereo images of functions suitable for stereopticon or practiced eyes.
 
Methods of Theoretical Physics. Morse and Feshbach. 1953. McGraw-Hill Book Company.
https://jontalle.web.engr.illinois.edu/MISC/Books/Methods_of_Theoretical_Physics_vol.1_Morse_and_Feshbach.pdf
 
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