Re: Cardboarding

[P3D William Carter <wc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Berlin asserts an interesting point:

>Flatness is due to the identical views which have NO parallax. The 
>angle is more a factor in apparent flatness than resolution though 
>resolution can affect how much of the existing depth cues are visible.

I must then ask myself "Mr. Bill, wouldn't identical views which have NO 
parallax actually BE of a cardboard cut out?" 

At some point the angle of parallax can no longer resolve the third 
dimension. Limited either by the the film resolution, the lens 
resolution, or by the parallactic base. But, wouldn't this be a fluid 
gradation? Wouldn't some Cyrano reveal his glory, full and gibbous, in a 
3-D system dependent only upon resolution and parallax? 

Is it because we're left without other depth clues, clues the hard wired 
portions of our brains expect, which occasion us to see planes where 
there are otherwise resolvable solids? If so, then what's so 
significantly different about hollograms and SL3D that they don't have 
this artifact? 



 

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