Re: The rise and fall of 3d

[Yiing Lin <ylin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

> From: fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dr. George A. Themelis)
> Yiing Lin, your postings make me wonder if you do any 3-d work of your own
> or if you have been exposed to *good* 3-d photography... You don't have to
> reply if these questions are too personal, but...
Oh, I'll freely admit to not having been exposed to much 3d work.  I've 
mentioned to you off the list that my work in 3d is limited to creating 
stereoscopic images on the computer.  (I've never taken a stereo pair 
before!!)  I make no apologies for it, though, as the life of a student 
(at least mine) just doesn't allow for it.  (Perhaps I could do an 
independent study in 3d-photo. as I had done for 3d computer imaging.)  I 
_think_ I've seen some good 3d photographs before, but I also find much 
2d photographs to be just as compelling.

> "superior" and you will know that the slight (not "very") inconvenience and
> expense are well worth it.
Well, again, that's subjective.  In my computer 3d independent study, I 
found it very frustrating not to be able to show my work to a wide 
audience because of the problems of projection (perhaps I should look at 
the 3D Museum book that you mentioned.  In a school journal, 
I've written up an article about my work and will have my pictures 
printed out in left-right-left sequences.  Again, more problems have 
arisen: I've not been able to put in as many pictures as I would like 
because of the costs of having to print out so many pictures, and also, I 
wonder how many people are actually going to be able to follow the 
directions to properly view the images?  Sorry for venting, but these 
problems have caused my experience to not be as fully satisfactory as I 
would've liked it to have been.

Peter Abrahams mentioned something that I thought was interesting.  He 
mentioned the use of 3d in science, eg anatomy, chemistry, etc.  
Actually, in the teaching of the sciences, I've only seen one book 
(chemistry), which uses stereoscopic images.  When I first saw it (which 
was actually my first exposure to the use of 3d), it was a real shocker!  
After the initial novelty shock, I realized that this was actually the 
ideal way of teaching many concepts which rely on 3d configurations of 
molecules.  So why aren't all chemistry books like that?

Alright, enough of my ramblings...perhaps some of this should've been 
written off the list, but... :)

							-Yiing


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