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                                                                       Exhibit 3

                              EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

                 AGREEMENT made as of the 1st day of January, 1996, by and
between STEVEN M. PECK, an adult individual (hereinafter referred to as
"Employee"), and DIMENSIONAL VISIONS GROUP, LTD., a Delaware corporation, with
a principal place of business located at 718 Arch Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 19106 (hereinafter referred to as "Company");

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

                 WHEREAS, Employee has been employed by the Company;

                 AND, WHEREAS, the Company and Employee now desire to enter
into an Agreement that sets forth the terms and conditions of Employee's
services to the Company;

                 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and
agreements herein contained, the parties hereto intending to be legally bound,
hereby agree as follows:

                 1.       Employment Term, Duties and Acceptance.

                          A.      Company hereby retains Employee as the
Company's President and Chief Executive Officer for a period of three (3) years
(the "Employment Period"), commencing on January 1, 1996 (the "Employment
Period"), subject to earlier terminations as hereinafter provided, to render
his full time services to the Company upon the terms and conditions herein
contained, in such capacity.

                          B.      Employee hereby accepts the foregoing
employment and agrees to devote, on a full-time basis, his best efforts, energy
and skill to such employment.

                          C.      During the term of this Agreement, Employee
shall not, except as may be permitted by the Board of Directors, be employed
by, work for, or be associated with, directly or indirectly, as an officer,
consultant, employee, or in any other capacity, any other business





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operation whether or not same is competitive with the business of the Company.

                 2.       Compensation and Expense Reimbursement.

   
                          A.      As base compensation for Employee duly
rendering his services pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, Company agrees
to pay and Employee agrees to accept a base salary of One Hundred Twenty-five
Thousand Dollars ($125,000) per annum payable in equal bi-weekly installments,
less such deductions or amounts as shall be required to be withheld by
applicable law or regulation, and paid in accordance with the Company's payroll
practices.  Such base salary shall be subject to increase by the Board of
Directors upon annual review.  Employee shall be eligible for bonus payments in
accordance with the Bonus Plan as approved by the Board of Directors.
    

                          B.      Company shall pay or reimburse Employee for
travel and other expenses reasonably incurred by Employee in the performance of
his services under this Agreement during the Employment Period, upon
presentation of expense statements, vouchers or such other supporting
documentation as may reasonably be required.

                 3.       Fringe Benefits.         Employee shall be entitled
(subject to the terms and conditions of particular plans and programs), to all
fringe benefits afforded to other employees of the Company, including, but not
by way of limitation, the right to participate in any pension, stock option,
retirement, major medical, group health, disability, accident and life
insurance, relocation reimbursement, and other employee benefit programs made
generally available, from time to time, by the Company except to the extent
that Employee, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement is already receiving
such benefits from the Company.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Employee shall
be provided with life insurance protection in an amount at least equal to one
half of his then current annual base salary.





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                 4.       Vacations.       Employee shall be entitled, during
each employment year, to four (4) weeks vacation, per annum, non-cumulative, or
payment for vacation time not taken by Employee.

                 5.       Termination by Company.

                          A.      Notwithstanding the stated term of
employment, this Agreement and the term of employment may be sooner terminated
by the Company for cause or for any of the following reasons:

                                  (i)      In the event Employee, in the
reasonable opinion of the Company, as determined by the Board of Directors, is
unable by reason of physical or mental disability to continue the proper
performance of his duties hereunder for a period of three (3) consecutive
months, the Company may terminate Employee's employment on a date thirty (30)
days after the date on which the Company shall have mailed written notice of
such termination to Employee's last known address;

                                  (ii)     The Employee's death;

                                  (iii)    Employee has committed an act of
dishonesty, theft, substance abuse, intoxication, unethical business conduct, a
material breach of the Employment Agreement, or has been convicted of a felony;
all of the foregoing shall be separately and collectively, known as "cause" for
termination.

                 6.       Notice of Termination.   Any purported termination by
the Company shall be communicated by written Notice of Termination to the other
party hereto in accordance with Section 17 hereof (except if the event given
rise to termination is Employee's death).  For purposes of this Agreement, a
"Notice of Termination" shall mean a notice which shall indicate the specific





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termination provision in this Agreement relied upon and shall set forth in
reasonable detail the facts and circumstances claimed to provide a basis for
termination of Employee's employment under the provision so indicated.

                 7.       Compensation Upon Termination or During Disability.

                          A.      During any period that the Employee fails to
perform his duties hereunder as a result of incapacity due to physical or
mental illness, the Employee shall continue to receive his full base salary at
the rate then in effect and all other compensation, until the Employee's
employment is terminated by the Company pursuant to Section 5 hereof, and for a
three month period thereafter (the three month period shall commence on the
date the Company notifies Employee of the Company's election to terminate
Employee's employment, pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 A. hereof).

                          B.      If the Employee's employment shall be
terminated for cause, except as herein specifically provided to the contrary in
the event the cause for termination is death or disability, the Company shall
pay the Employee his full base salary through the date of termination at the
rate in effect at the time the Notice of Termination is given and the Company
shall have no further obligations to the Employee under this Agreement.

                          C.      If the Employee's employment by the Company
shall be terminated without cause during the three year term of this Agreement,
Employee shall be entitled to the payment of his compensation at the then
current level for the remainder of the term.  In the event of the sale,
transfer or reorganization of the Company, any agreement for such shall include
a commitment by the surviving entity to continue payment of such compensation
for the remainder of the said three year term.  If Employee's employment shall
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the expiration of his initial three year term of employment:

                                  (i)      The Company shall continue to pay
the Employee an amount equal to the Employee's base salary at the rate in
effect at the time Notice of Termination is given for a period of six months,
said payments to be made at the same time and in the same manner, as if
Employee had remained in the employ of the Company; plus

                                  (ii)     Any bonus to which the Employee
would otherwise be entitled, pro rated to the effective date of termination;
plus

                                  (iii)    All other amounts payable to the
Employee and all benefits payable to him under any other plan or agreement
relating to retirement benefits or to compensation previously earned and
deferred, in accordance with the respective terms of such plans or agreements,
pro rated to a date six (6) months following the date of termination.

                 8.       Trade Secrets.

                          A.      Employee acknowledges that his employment by
the Company, which is in the business of three-dimensional imaging, will enable
him to obtain confidential information concerning the Company, its subsidiaries
and affiliates, and information about the trade secrets the Company employs in
its business, including but not limited to the following: research,
experiments, inventions, discoveries and improvements conceived, developed or
worked on by the Company, whether or not related to Company's business as it
now exists; data and information about costs, profit, markets, sales, key
personnel, pricing policies; technical, scientific, patent and proprietary
information and/or processes; operational methods and other business affairs
and methods, including plans for future developments, now known or available to
Employee or the public (all of which is hereinafter collectively referred to as
the "Confidential Information").  Confidential Information





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shall also mean the same as trade secrets under the 2nd Restatement of Torts.
Employee and the Company further acknowledge that the services to be performed
under this Agreement are of a special, unique, unusual and extraordinary
character; the Company's products and services will be marketed and licensed
throughout the United States and abroad, and that the Company will be competing
with other organizations which are or could be located in any part of the
United States or abroad.  Accordingly, Employee agrees that he shall not use
for himself or divulge any of the Confidential Information to anyone outside of
the Company's business and then only with the prior written consent of the
Company's Board of Directors.  Employee further acknowledges that he is not now
and has not in the past been engaged in any business related to that of the
Company (three dimensional imaging).  Accordingly, Employee agrees that upon
the termination of expiration of this Agreement, and for a period of two (2)
years thereafter, Employee will not, directly or indirectly, alone or as a
member or a partnership, or as an officer, employee, director, stockholder or
consultant, of or to any person, firm or corporation engage in any business,
directly or indirectly, the same as or similar to and/or competitive with that
of the Company as now constituted or as may hereafter be constituted during the
term of this Agreement (including its successors or assigns) and during the two
(2) year restrictive covenant period set fourth above.

                          B.       As a condition to the employment of the
Employee, Employee further agrees to execute the Company's standard
Confidentiality and EDAC Agreements and such other Confidentiality Agreements
as may, during the term of Employee's employment, be required by the Company of
all employees in the Company's employ.  It is specifically understood that the
consideration supportive of such latter execution by Employee will be the
continued employment of Employee, it being specifically understood that the
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latter documents (provided same is required of all employees of the Company)
would constitute cause for termination by the Company of Employee's employment
hereunder.

                          C.      The provisions of this Section 8 shall
survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement.

                 9.        Injunctive Relief.

                          A.       Employee acknowledges that his services to
the Company are unique and that the confidential information which will be
divulged to the Employee will be of such nature that the divulging of same by
Employee to any other person, firm or corporation or the utilization thereof by
Employee, in breach of his undertakings thereunder, could cause the Company
irreparable harm or damage for which the Company cannot be entirely compensated
by an award of money damages.  It is therefore agreed that in addition to any
other relief or remedy which may be available to the Company in the event of
the breach by Employee of his confidential undertaking, the Company may seek as
against the Employee injunctive relief, and the Employee agrees that  in the
event such an action is commenced by the Company against Employee which
alleges, in whole or in part, a breach or threatened breach by Employee of his
confidential undertaking, to consent, and he does hereby consent, to the
issuance by the Court to a preliminary injunction in favor of the Company
restraining the Employee from breaching his confidential undertaking as set
fourth herein pending a final determination of such judicial proceeding.  The
provisions hereof shall survive the termination or expiration of this
Agreement.

                 10.      Return of Confidential Information.       Upon the
termination or expiration of this Agreement, Employee shall return to the
Company all material in Employee's possession or control which is of a
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Section 10 shall survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement.

                 11.      Employee shall be indemnified by the Company against
any liability incurred in connection with any proceeding in which Employee may
be involved by reason of his service as an officer, director or employee of the
Company except where such liability  results from willful misconduct or
recklessness or where such indemnification is prohibited by applicable law.

                 12.      Severability.    The invalidity or unenforceability
of any term of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability
of this Agreement or any of its other terms;  and this Agreement and such other
terms shall be construed as though the invalid or unenforceable term(s) were
not included herein, unless the effect would be to vitiate the parties'
fundamental purpose in entering into the Agreement.

                 13.      Remedies Cumulative.     Except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, each of the rights and remedies of the parties set
forth in this Agreement shall be cumulative with all other such rights and
remedies, as well as with all rights and remedies of the parties otherwise
available at law or in equity.

                 14.      Waiver. The failure of either party at any time or
times to require performance of any provisions hereof shall in no manner effect
the right at a later time to enforce the same.  To be effective, any waiver
must be contained in a written instrument signed by the party waiving
compliance by the other party of the term or covenant as specified.  The waiver
by either party of the breach of any term or covenant contained herein, whether
by conduct or otherwise in any one or more instances, shall not be deemed to
be, or construed as, a further or continuing waiver of any such breach, or a
waiver of the breach of any other term or covenant contained in this Agreement.





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                 15.       Governing Law.           Employee agrees that this
Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

                 16.       Captions.        Captions of articles and paragraphs
of this Agreement are included for convenient reference only, shall not be
construed as part of this Agreement and shall not be used to define, limit,
extend or interpret the terms hereof.

                 17.      Warranties.      Employee represents, warrants,
covenants and agrees that he has a right to enter into this Agreement, that he
is not a party to any agreement or understanding whether or not written which
would prohibit or restrict his performance of his obligations under this
Agreement and that he will not use in the performance of his obligations
hereunder any proprietary information of any other party which he is legally
prohibited from using.

                 18.       Notice.         Any notice required to be given
pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement shall be in writing and sent by
registered mail, to the parties at the following addresses:

                 To the Employer:          Dimensional Visions Group, Ltd.
                                           718 Arch Street, Suite 202N
                                           Philadelphia, PA  19106

                 To the Employee:          Mr. Steven M. Peck
                                           88 Bunker Hill Court
                                           Wayne, PA  19087

                 19.      Assignment.       This  Agreement shall inure to the
benefit of and be binding upon the Company, its successors and assigns, it
being specifically agreed and understood that in the event  that the Company
engages in a so-called "bulk sale" of its assets,  this Agreement may, at the
Company's option, for all purposes be deemed an asset of the Company.





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                 20.      Definition.      For purposes of this Agreement, the
term "Company" shall mean the Company, its subsidiaries, its successors or
assignees.

                 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this
Agreement as of the date first above written.

Attest:                                      DIMENSIONAL VISIONS GROUP, LTD.
   /s/ William R. Lewis                      By    /s/ James W. Porter, Jr.    
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                                             Chairman, Compensation Committee
                                             Board of Directors
                                
                                
                                
WITNESS:                        
   /s/ Anna Colasante                             /s/ Steven M. Peck           
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                                             STEVEN M. PECK





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