The phrase "three dimensional effect" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that appears to have three dimensions, although it is actually just two dimensional in reality. For example, "The painting had a three dimensional effect that made it appear to have depth and texture."
In the early 1840s he improved the stereoscope by utilizing lenses to combine the two dissimilar binocular pictures and produce the three-dimensional effect.
Viewers put on the headset and then view the virtual environment through two screens showing offset versions, thereby providing an immersive three-dimensional effect.
To get that three-dimensional effect, each scene must be shot with two cameras -- mimicking the pair of eyes that give viewers their depth perception -- and then projected with the two images overlapped.
One such series combines painted canvases and video projections to curiously three-dimensional effect; made with Mr. Kahrimi, it is based on video clips of oil fields burning in Kuwait during the Persian Gulf war.
They will also have to get used to the ignominy of wearing those funny goggles in the home, a necessary accessory as current 3D technology relies on the glasses to filter two sets of synchronised footage separately to the left and right eye thus creating the three-dimensional effect.
Special glasses will be sold with their imminent single, Better Than This, so that fans can get the full three-dimensional effect of the band's five-song, 20-minute set at Abbey Road's famous Studio Two, where the Beatles recorded.
All arrangements are asymmetrical and achieve a three-dimensional effect.
She used wire to achieve a geometric, three-dimensional effect.
Many professionals hang pictures from cables suspended from the ceiling, creating a three-dimensional effect.
