Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1311

[P3D Lew Clayman/K Szafran <kandlew@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Many people were obviously very interested in this stereo-related game, because
>they generated dozens of messages about it over a couple of weeks--probably as
>much or more "traffic" than any other subject currently under discussion. Some
>found this discussion extremely useful in fulfilling a long-term wish to obtain
>one of these units and some of its games at a reasonable price, and in helping
>to decide which of those games held the greatest stereo interest. Okay, those
>messages were generated by only a dozen or a dozen-and-a-half people. That's
>about the same number who routinely discuss esoteric questions of optical
>physics in specific lens configurations, or generating Pulfrich images while
>driving the freeway, or how to flatten out curved Keystone views of
>nineteenth-century China, or processing techniques of an obscure black and
white
>infrared film from the Ukraine, or the significance of a peculiar notch on a
>1937 private-release View-Master set of spelunking photos, or algorithms for
>creating Magic-Eye stereograms on the home PC.
>
>As I said before, this is a group set up for the discussion of any and all
>topics relating to stereography, whether or not all 800 people on the list (and
>their single self-appointed spokesman) find every single topic scintillating
>reading (in fact they are guaranteed not to!). President Clinton's foreign
>policy or the social significance of Billy Ray Cyrus are probably off-topic for
>a 3D group, but a discussion of the only currently available video game that
>produces true stereographic imagery is certainly not!
>
>

Hear, hear!

Now that the expert end of the list has sounded off, here's a few words from
a rookie-

A few weeks ago I asked a question and triggered a thread (the
beam-splitter/scanning thing).  It was a newbie question.  It was a computer
question.  We discussed pixel aspect ratios until we ran them into the
ground.  I also touched upon a thread about cognitive psychology, 3D imaging
in the brain, and of all things baseball.  Do pixels belong on "photo-3D"?
Do baseballs?  Do synapses?  Are we to self-censor, ask nothing, answer
nothing, learn nothing, and teach nothing?  This I can do very well in
isolation, thank you.  I participate - and I lurked for a good long time
before posting BTW - in order to expand my knowledge both in breadth and in
depth.  I'm none too fond of having such things closed off.

I also don't care much about Spacially Correct Mario.  My solution is
perfect: I just don't read those postings.  Works pretty good, y'know?

And another thing.  The last thing any list needs is endless debate about
what the list needs.  Every list topic is either eventually found to be
larger than at first imagined, or else smaller.  Lists which expand and
adapt, live.  Those which contract and stagnate, die.  I choose life.  I
choose to discuss baseball, as an example of spacial perception, even though
there are no lenses, emulsions, projectors, lenticules, chip mountings,
trade shows, auctions, or crying in baseball.

I feel better now.  Thanks.


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