Re: John!!!

[P3D John Bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John B writes:
>> What we have is a diagram with no known physical model behind 
>> it and math that applies to that diagram. Give us the model 
>> behind the diagram!

Bill writes:
> The History: The math model was originally based on the 
> quantified knowns in a standard dual lens system. It predicted a 
> Z-axis resolution from the idea that the centroids in a single 
> lens mimic a dual lens arrangement, it used the distance between 
> these centroids for a baseline.
>
> The real world results from this thinking were found to be way 
> off.  Perhaps by an order of magnitude.  This then was clearly 
> not a "dual lens" system shoe-horned into a single piece of 
> glass.

Would you please describe the tests, their methodology, and give 
their results?

> The Paradigm Leap:
> Any cone of light coming from the lens aperture reverses at its
> "image point". Think of the aperture filters as simply encoding 
> this effect. As such, they differentiate foreground from 
> background images.
>
> The Current Model:
> The question now becomes "How far must an object be displaced 
> before this changeover is resolveable at an image plane?".  I 
> start with 'Rayleigh's Criterion' for determining the resolution 
> of a wave-based system. I then determine when the encoded minums 
> are displaced enough at the image plane to be resolveable points 
> along the Z-axis.

Can you tell us how the Rayleigh Criterion applies to binocular 
vision?  (I can see how it would apply to monocular vision.)

John B

PS to silent but concerned parties:  Don't whisper in my ear 
off-list.  If we're going to have people denigrating (dare I 
say sniping at?) the conventional view of SL3D on-list, then 
let's answer the consequent questions here, on-list.  Is that
too much to ask?  The off-list, whispering, conspiratorial, 
I-could-tell-you-but-then-I'd-have-to-kill-you approach to 
answering tough questions smacks of flim flam.  Bill makes an 
honorable effort to answer here on-list.  Please take note and 
follow the inventor's lead.  Thank you.


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