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3-D or 3D or 3d may refer to:

Science, technology, and mathematics

Relating to three-dimensionality

  • Three-dimensional space
    • 3D computer graphics, computer graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data
    • 3D film, a motion picture that gives the illusion of three-dimensional perception
    • 3D modeling, developing a mathematical representation of any three-dimensional surface or object
    • 3D printing, making a three-dimensional solid object of a shape from a digital model
    • 3D television, television that conveys depth perception to the viewer
    • Stereoscopy, any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image

Other uses in science and technology or commercial products

  • 3D projection
  • 3D rendering
  • 3D scanning, making a digital representation of three-dimensional objects
  • 3D video game (disambiguation)
  • 3-D Secure, a secure protocol for online credit and debit card transactions
  • Biela's Comet, a lost periodic comet discovered in 1826
  • British Rail Class 207, sometimes known as 3Ds

Music

Artists

  • Robert Del Naja (born 1965), also known as 3D, English artist and musician in the band Massive Attack
  • The 3Ds, a rock band

Albums

  • 3D (Go West album), 2010
  • 3D (The Three Degrees album), 1979
  • 3-D (I See Stars album), the debut album from the band I See Stars
  • 3-D (SPC ECO album)
  • 3-D (TLC album), 2002
  • 3-D (Wrathchild America album)

Songs

3-D, a song by Cheap Trick from their 1983 album Next Position Please

Other uses

  • 3D Aerobatics, a form of flying using flying aircraft to perform specific aerial maneuvers
  • 3D (Long Island bus), bus service in New York State
  • 3D Test of Antisemitism, put forth by Israeli politician and human rights activist Natan Sharansky
  • Middle finger, the third digit (abbreviated 3D) of the hand
  • Three-dimensional chess
  • Threepence (disambiguation), a coin used in several countries, abbreviated as '3d'
  • The 3D ("Dudley Death Drop"), a professional wrestling double-team maneuver

See also

  • 3ds (disambiguation)
  • D3 (disambiguation)
  • DDD (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with 3D
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