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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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Jim Crowell
School of Optometry
360 Minor Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
(510) 642-7679
jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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