[MF3D.FORUM:1098] Miniaturization and familiarity

[Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill,

I think Abram Kloosyk will have some thoughts on your use
of the term "hyper!"

Regarding the forest scene relative to the cars: please
note, trees come in all different sizes.  Sounds obvious
but think about the implications...

I have an MF 3D slightly hyper image of an Austin area
scene.  Sometimes I ask people if they notice anything
odd or different about it.  Not everyone does.  But there
is a tree in the scene that is perhaps 30 ft tall, that
looks about 6 ft tall in the stereo viewer.  When I
pointed that out to one person who hadn't noticed the
hyper effect, her response was "well I'm from West Texas
and that's the size trees are out there; it's so dry
they don't get any bigger than that, so I just thought
that was the size the tree was!  It looked perfectly
normal to me."

So your friends who had not seen the particular forest
you shot may not have immediately realized that the
trees appeared smaller than they are in reality, and so
did not comment.  But most people who saw the scene and
the slide would be able to tell the difference.  When
you say the scene looks normal to you, it says two things
to me:  1) you are not sensitive to the miniaturization
effect; and 2) you seem not to notice, or have at least
failed to mention, the fact that your MF stereo slide has
binocular disparity extending to a much greater distance
than you could have possibly seen when you were looking
at the forest itself.

Paul Talbot