Re: Computer 3d? Not yet for me...

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Good computer stereo photography will work for me only if computer 
> viewing approaches the quality of stereo projection.  Note:  I said 
> approach, not match.  This means larger, higher resolution, images, 
> viewed with rapidly (no flickering, please) alternating R & L.  Images 
> should be loaded in seconds, not minutes, with the click of a button.  
> We are far from having this technology available and affordable.

George,

Although not all WEB-page 3D that I've seen has been of the highest
realist red-button resolution, I've seen some which were quite enjoyable
to see.  And I'm glad that time was taken to put them on the web.
Some of these were by photo-3D members.  I thank them very much.

As to load time, yes that's sometimes a problem.  The World Wide Web
has sometimes been called the World Wide Wait.  There are some ways
that this can be made less painful, however.

I personally have an ISDN line to my PC at home.  This gives me
a 128K bps connection (before compression) and I've an even faster
connection when I'm at work. When the WWW page's server has a fast
connection, load times are seconds, not minutes.  I don't say this
in a "my line's faster than yours" way, but to say that there are
alternatives now or soon.  In some areas, ISDN isn't too expensive
and there are even faster (possibly even much cheaper) connection
choices coming (cable TV internet sevice and ADSL connections
come to mind).  So if the backbones can keep building bandwidth,
the load-time problem should dissappear for more and more people, and
when the bandwidth to homes gets generally fast, then "publishers"
can put higher resolution images on their web site and/or use higher
quality settings on their JPG compression.

So, at least some of your problems with computerized 3D images can
be solved now, or soon.  Won't replace red-button viewers, but
it can be fun and be easily worth the few seconds of download time.


Mike K.


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