The studio was not able to complete the 3-D effects in time for Tuesday's release.
But most 3-D effects on the market still require users to wear glasses, which some complain are uncomfortable, expensive and nausea-inducing.
Many critics of the film singled out the 3-D effects which were done in postproduction as the movie was actually filmed in 2-D.
When you look at the performance of Avatar, which had amazing 3-D effects and no stars, it seems like movie-going today is about how the film looks, not who's in it.
The difference between Potter and something like Clash of the Titans (also a Warner Bros. movie) is that filmmakers will have had almost a year to perfect the 3-D effects on Potter.
What's exceptional is the orchestration of color, form, light and dark (lots of dark), 3-D technology and digital effects into a look that amounts to a vision.
The effects you'd feel would be indistinguishable from the experience of gravity.
Part of the difficulty in studying the effects of low vitamin D levels is in simply defining them.
Other studies of the effects of low vitamin D are more problematic.
When it comes to summer blockbusters, Hollywood studios know exactly what will make money: properties that people already know and love with lots of special effects in 3-D.
While there are surely some seasonal effects at play, D.
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It'd be great to have all the special effects first, but very, very rarely do you get that.
The Unreal Development Kit for Apple devices will include tools for advanced 3-D rendering, lighting, animation and other effects.
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D-cycloserine selectively enhances extinction, suppressing the effects of conditioned associations such as anxiety, addiction and phobias.
Nothing, barely even a word of acknowledgment from the people who'd been citing the study and condemning people to the harmful effects of austerity for the past four years.
But when I saw Alice in Wonderland in 3-D I felt like I only saw half a movie (because the effects were so distracting) and that I had been royally ripped off.
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In the early part of the century, scientists fed rats very limited diets, teasing out the effects of various foods and the micronutrients they contained, including vitamin D.
Dr Margherita Cantornas, who led the study at Penn State University in the US, said that the anti-inflammatory properties of vitamin D could allow the dosage of steroids to be reduced, cutting the side effects.
"I am aware of the risk but the fact is I'd rather make it to the point where I might see long-term effects than have a problem now and not get to that point, " he says.
And since D-serine is so rare, researchers hope drugs that thwart its production won't have unwanted effects elsewhere in the body.
D.s and 75 veterinarians test drugs in preclinical development on healthy rodents (looking for toxic side effects)and on sick ones (looking for cures).
Still, we can try to correlate vitamin D levels with obvious deficiency diseases such as rickets, but the environmental studies that look at other possible effects are problematic.
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