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Re: What if we had three eyes?


  • From: P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: What if we had three eyes?
  • Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:30:01 -0800

At 2:16 PM 4/10/96, P3D Josh Rubin wrote:

>John Bercovitz
>
>>   > What if we had three eyes?
>>
>>   On stalks or fixed?  I think I prefer stalks but I would want absolute
>

Nice idea John.  How about two fixed eyes (as in the present
arrangement) plus a singleton on a stalk?  You could use the
original two for stereo & wobble the third one back & forth for
continual motion parallax.  You wouldn't run into all the
problems we've just discovered.  :-)

>
>OK.  While we're at it, they should zoom with no loss of
>resolution, and the lenses and intra-eyeball fluid
>goop should each have separately-adjustable refraction
>indexes.  They should have at least three eyelids each: one
>clear, one UV, one polarized.  Eyebrows are a waste;
>eliminate them, but make the eyelashes serpentoid so they
>can pick out particles and trap flies like Aeon Flux.
>

Oh please!  Let's keep things within the realm of plausibility!  :-)

-Jim C.


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